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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
#262What a weird, weird man. I didn't need it anyway but this certainly confirmed the Early Life section for me: >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…
Confirmed the Early Life section? What do you mean? The blog post doesn't discuss the author's life before his current situation.
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Re: I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
#264What a weird, weird man. I didn't need it anyway but this certainly confirmed the Early Life section for me: >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…
Okay this part has me convinced this post is satire. The hackernewsiness is simply off the charts. As the kids would say, ain't no way.
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#265I 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.
Definitely performative, but even in that context still kind a fun.
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#266Sethi did something like this in 2012 and his minder could slap him if he got distracted.
https://hackinglife.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/npc7g21v#quadrupled...
Re: I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
#267What a weird, weird man. I didn't need it anyway but this certainly confirmed the Early Life section for me: >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…
Okay this part has me convinced this post is satire. The hackernewsiness is simply off the charts. As the kids would say, ain't no way.
Fitting username, I suppose. If you imagine mine is "radicalrightist" then the above comment might be less surprising.
Re: I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
#268Reminds me of this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U
Re: I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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…
I mean no disrespect to sufferers of ADD, or for that matter anyone who finds it difficult to do anything which is 'important' to them. I too have many things that I wish I had done that I think would be very worthwhile but which, for whatever reason, I haven't. What I have observed repeatedly is that the best way to tell what is actually important to a person (myself very much included!) is to ignore what they say a…
I've been diagnosed with adhd by a psychiatrist, I have a big stack of projects and activities I want to do, because I like them or they solve a problem I have. See, the thing with adhd inattentive types is that you have a dopamine intake problem, so you get random bursts of focus and motivation on things that are novel and you find intriguing,but as soon as figure out how something works, that dopamine dissappears and you can't focus on that thing even if your life depends on it. Same as the article author, I'm a lot more productive when I have someone breathing down my neck or I'm doing something out of spite, just to show them how it's done or that I can.
It's not about apps, techniques, habits, tricks or what have you, most of those things don't work for adhd peeps. What works is having a job be variable enough to keep you interested for a long long time or have adhd meds (Adderall, Concerta etc.)
Re: I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
#270The “having someone around to keep you accountable” is definitely the real reason why managers want employees back in offices.
And it works.
You obviously don’t have to go crazy like the author, but it has a real effect.
Just sitting at the library as a student was way more effective than sitting at home.