He says it tripled his productivity, then later says he got an extra 57 hours of work done for the month...
I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
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#132I'm quite surpised how many people here are strongly shocked by what for me looks just like self-organized ghetto co-working plus a bit of domestic service. There's also obsession with productivity but I think many of us have been there at some point. I don't think there's anything wrong with that guy, the whole thing is framed as an experiment and I don't think it brought any harm to anybody.
Btw ... Is 'ghetto' racist? What would be a better word insted?
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#133I honestly cannot believe this. The porn part, the make me a smoothie request, dating dinners. This guy seriously paid people to sit behind him and didn't even think about them stealing his $1000 monitors until after the fact? He didn't try blocking any non productive sites? No productivity software? No pomadoro technique-esq focus methods? This guy should have paid $88/hour for therapy if we are being honest here
He's got a 'Date Me' button on his website which takes you to a Google Form where you can apply to be his girlfriend. I can't decide if this makes the blog post more or less believable. Could it be that he's just a satirical character and doesn't really exist?
holy fuck it's smart
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm more confused by these comments. Like, he's 21. This is an interesting experience and a great story to tell. Sounds like money well-spent and I'm glad he's experimenting in unusual ways. That's what makes life interesting and worth living. Some of my most memorable and valuable memories stem from bad decisions or experimenting with different ideas that might be dumb. Some of you need to touch grass.
Alice thinks it's odd that Bob budgeted $10k/mo to hire proxy moms to check in on him & cook for him. Do you tell Alice to touch grass?
Dude works for Facebook. He can afford a 10k experiment and in fact him being on of the very few that can probably contributed to doing it.
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#135I honestly cannot believe this. The porn part, the make me a smoothie request, dating dinners. This guy seriously paid people to sit behind him and didn't even think about them stealing his $1000 monitors until after the fact? He didn't try blocking any non productive sites? No productivity software? No pomadoro technique-esq focus methods? This guy should have paid $88/hour for therapy if we are being honest here
He's got effective altruism and defi in his about me page - if he isn't a made up character he might as well be.
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#136Alternate title: Wealthy gringo discovers domestic servants.
Also reads a bit like American Psycho 2.0 (or 3.0 NFT edition)
>Also reads a bit like American Psycho
My thoughts exactly.
I read this part using Patrick Bateman's voice in my head:
>"The rest of the experiment continued in a similar fashion (albeit less hectic), with me doing yoga and working out in the morning, working my job, working on my company, reading books, doing my UI/UX course, writing blog posts, working on some side projects, all interspersed with ping pong and breakdancing classes."
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think there’s something to that. It could be that there’s no immediate interest, i.e. everything is tantalizing but roughly equally so, so they cancel each other out and all simply exist as vague desires rather than actual goals.
This sounds like a complex way of maintaining an identity as interested in things that are not actually interesting.
Not sufficiently interesting, at least.
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#138> I have an endlessly growing list of projects I want to make, books I want to read, and skills I want to learn, so productivity means a lot to me! If it really meant a lot, it wouldn't be a challenge to actually do it. It sounds like the real problem is a lack of interest in the particular books, skills, etc.
TikTok will always release more dopamine than doing basically anything else I can do. That doesn't mean I'm uninterested in doing other things, it just means tiktok has succeeded in optimizing content that immediately releases dopamine.
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#139This is idiotic.
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#140Sounds hella neurotic. Probably very interesting guy, but just as insufferable. I think I know someone with a very similar personality.