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Dude you literally called people who disagree mediocre and respond to people saying you’re a dick with an email like reply. Do you think you’re a good person?
You’re responding to a chatgpt comment
I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
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Re: I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
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> Therapy would take away productive time :) I'm not sure if that's a joke, or not. But if you sincerely mean it - I put it away for years and now I feel like an idiot for wasting a lot of my time fighting rather than actually addressing my issues. This would've been the most productive time investment I could've done a decade earlier.
On the other hand, I've seen a handful of therapists, three of them for longer than six months and really, they've done zilch for me. A waste of money in hindsight. Reading helpful books and really applying the good ones (for me) has helped me more while costing way less, aka bibliotherapy [1] That's great that therapy worked so well for you, but don't make it out to be a panacea for everyone. [1] https://www.ncbi.nl…
> Reading helpful books and really applying the good ones (for me) has helped me
Which books do you recommend?
Re: I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
#203INFO: did you make them sit on that hard wooden chair for eight hours and watch you recline in your aeron?
But seriously: are your graphs showing 21 productive hours a week? That’s like four a day? What _are_ you doing the rest of the time?
As someone else said: therapy would be an incredible productivity investment. Sharpen the saw. Babysitters are a hack for the symptoms, it’s long term more efficient to attack the cause.
Re: I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
#204Shouldn't this guy be fired from Meta, I mean he's revealing code to the third party, basically leaking stuff.
Right, this is the actual problem here that Meta is likely to take action against him for: breaking NDAs and posting about it on the internet.
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#205I 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
Maybe I’m too cynical but it just seems performative. It seems like any number of YouTube videos where some financially well off influencer spends their money doing something awkward to attract views. And it worked. Here we are gawking at the latest stunt. Like and subscribe. Don’t forget to smash that bell. Check out my patreon for access to my Discord.
This is a guy that has a "Date Me" link on his website that links to a google form. He seems quite unique.
Re: I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
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> Why does he feel the need to be 'productive' for 16 hours a day? Yeah after reading the post I’m like this guy must be a founder to value productivity so highly… NOPE, just works at Meta! EDIT: Oh wait, he DID also start a company, during the experiment in fact, but of course it’s in stealth mode! Can’t make this stuff up…
Wouldn't hiring people to sit behind you and watch you work be a breach of contract?
I would think so.
Also doesn’t Meta own everything you create when you work there? I know other companies of that size do. And if so, then creating a company is breach and technically the IP of that company now belongs to Meta too.
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#207> 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.
> If it really meant a lot, it wouldn't be a challenge to actually do it.
Dear god I wish this were true. You have no idea. Hell, I would pay good money right this second to make it true for myself.
One of the major struggles of ADD is having things you actually care about being challenging to do. Doesn't matter how important, your brain just says "nope".
I struggle with this constantly. Things I truly care about, or which are exceedingly important are a huge uphill battle just to put any effort at all towards them.
In general in the replies here there are a lot of people who aren't aware that other people might experience life differently from them.
Re: I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
#208Can someone directly explain the understanding he is lacking of what is wrong with this / what makes it off-putting, such as not understanding "the human element", "power dynamics" or "people or human dignity"
Obviously many people in these comments sections don't seem to understand whats wrong with this, and there is such a thing as aspergers and the like. Maybe discussion can help people come to an understanding.
Is it that he is essentially valuing their time less than his and therefore not viewing them as equals? could someone who feels more strongly try to put their finger on whats so off-putting?
Re: I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
#209Have you tried an entirely remote version of this? I imagine someone could build an effective AI with face to watch over you to increase productivity/$ spent but it wouldn't have a physical presence.
I have not, but I'm looking at doing it down the line! One thing that I would miss is the homecooked meals; I'm surprised at how much I enjoyed them.
Any plans to start dedicating more time to cooking for yourself? You seem to think that working out is productive time would you consider eating well and spending time cooking to be productive?
Re: I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
#210this has to be parody right?
> Tuesday morning—under Sophia’s supervision—I unironically decided to start a company (it’s in stealth, sorry!), wrote a random blog post, and did more work for my job. In the evening session with Hannah I picked up where I left off for my job and then went breakdancing. When I came back to my apartment, the internet was out so I read two chapters of Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them until the internet came back on, after which I completed a lesson in the UI/UX course I’d enrolled in.
if so i applaud the author on achieving heights of tech satire not seen since HBO's Silicon Valley