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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

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Post by sph »

dosethree wrote: post #287
drewrv wrote: post #273

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m certain she wasn’t actually watching porn. It’s a pretty common joke answer to say “porn” when someone asks what you’re browsing and you don’t want to share. The fact that the author seems to take it as genuine adds to the bizarre nature of this blog post though!

yep. An awkward terrible joke to cover up whatever she was doing - social media, messaging, or looking up her employer

"Come on dude, were you on TikTok again?!"

"No! No! It was porn I swear!"

Re: I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month

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Post by twelve40 »

throwaway675309 wrote: post #254
usefulcat wrote: post #33

> 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.

Agreed, it reminds me of when people say "I've always wanted to learn ". If you really wanted to learn Spanish, you'd learn Spanish.

there is nothing wrong with saying that. With all the things that must be done in adult life, learning a language is a luxury akin to getting a rare delicate plant or something. Maybe the person saying this will actually follow through when they retire, you never know.

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Post by noduerme »

sph wrote: post #289
noduerme wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "apply to date me" form is something I've seen done in the past by female influencers (or whatever it's called when the line between influencer and sugarbaby is blurred). Everyone's hustling these days. The money flow seems to still go in the same old direction where man flaunts wealth and woman flaunts beauty (not saying this to be sexist; I wish it weren't so, but here we are). It's crude and distasteful and tr…

> animal display bullshit That's worked for thousands of years, or millions if you count all the species where males "dance" or flaunt their physical appearance to attract a female partner. I have a hard time to see how something that we have done for millions of years can be bullshit. Seems to me rejecting it is more bullshit. That said, from your comment I don't understand if you are pro or against the "Date me" fo…

I agree with everything you're saying up to the final sentence. I find these displays distasteful because I think humans are worth more than feathers or muscles or money. But that's only to say that the rituals have become more sophisticated with language.

[edit: More precisely what I mean is that the rituals performed with just feathers and money look stupid to me; more complicated rituals have taken their place and are usually intended to show survival traits that apply to more modern circumstances.]

[edit 2; by feathers I mean everything from clothes to Botox to Ferraris.]

My basic point was that the questionnaire is just one more recent iteration of the same thing. If nature intended DJs and record collections, there's no reason nature couldn't intend questionnaires.

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Post by timthelion »

Kibae wrote: post #177

One thing I've done to increase my productivity after reading a comment from a Hacker News post [1] is recording my work sessions on OBS. The benefits for me are two-fold: 1) It keeps me accountable while working and 2) I can rewatch my work sessions and recall my thought process from a future me perspective. It's amazing how much you forget about a day, but by watching the recordings after the fact, you recall the m…

I do this too. And post the sessions publicly when I can, which you can see here:

- https://gradesta.com/blog/

- and here https://veganbuddies.org/blog/

Kind of funny when I record 2 hours of getting nothing at all done and screaming in frustration, but there we are. Call it radical honesty if you will.

I find it absolutely exhausting though. I max out at 5 hours a day if I talk the entire time.

I find adding a blog post for each screencast to be even better for productivity. I often find myself going back to them to reference something.

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Post by typhonius »

kodisha wrote: post #64

Is there a saas/browser plugin where you enter a name and then it alerts you if this name shows up in any hiring emails/slack conversation/twitter browsing? Asking for a friend ;)

I use google alerts for this exact reason: https://www.google.com/alerts

Re: I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month

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Post by karmakurtisaani »

swyx wrote: post #210

this 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 u…

This part immediately reminded me of The Hustle by Krazam.
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