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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 simplyinfinity »

jacooper wrote: post #337
simplyinfinity wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 a…

Did the psychiatrist really help you? Did you productivity improve? I think I have ADHD but not diagnosed yet and I am facing the same annoyance of not being able to do what I actually need to.

They did. I've been on meds (Concerta) for 10 months now, i'm able to focus on almost anything. I'm attentive, focused and do a lot of work, instead of being distracted, watching youtube for no reason and doing chores a lot more easily.

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

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Post by pnt12 »

thdespou wrote: post #309
moconnor wrote: post #203

INFO: 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…

I think his employer at Meta would be furious right now for letting this guy jerk off for 4 hours every day when he was supposed to be going fast and be breaking things.

Facebook doesn't go fast and break things anymore - that's a decade old logo, it's outdated.

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

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Post by pnt12 »

thdespou wrote: post #309
moconnor wrote: post #203

INFO: 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…

I think his employer at Meta would be furious right now for letting this guy jerk off for 4 hours every day when he was supposed to be going fast and be breaking things.

4 hours looks OK to me, even good if we are critical about productive VS non productive time.

Answering questions in slack, checking emails, going to meetings, waiting for ci/cd: all chew up your productive time.

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

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Post by mtnGoat »

greenrd wrote: post #317
mtnGoat wrote: post #311

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I’ve heard examples of it happening, but can not point to any. I know my cousin was sued for changing employers, they tried to block her taking a job at a competitor(broad use of the term, but I guess fang’s think everyone is a competitor), but lost in Delaware court. So I do know they will attempt to enforce these contracts if they want to. Many top companies do have these clauses, I’ve signed them and seen others.…

The US federal government is going to ban anti-compete clauses, which is great news: https://www.fullstackeconomics.com/p/banning-noncompete-agre...

I think you mean to say, some parties in government have discussed the idea. It’s not set in stone that it will happen.

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Post by mtnGoat »

twelve40 wrote: post #284
humanizersequel wrote: post #279

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>Also doesn’t Meta own everything you create when you work there? I've heard stories like this but I can't imagine this would be enforceable unless the "IP" was very obviously related to his work at Meta. What other companies are you thinking of, and do you have any stories of this happening to someone?

they don't, because stuff like this does not exist. Unless you are outright stealing like that convicted uber/google guy, or building a direct competitor, nobody cares what you do, at least in the location of the TFA.

They do exist, as I said above, I’ve signed one. Derp.

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

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Post by gabrielhidasy »

jameshush wrote: post #280

He started with the wrong goal in mind. The goal shouldn't be to increase the number of personal productivity hours. The goal is to move a company vision forward. The leverage you get by spending half as much money on a single full-time virtual assistant to handle tasks for you alone would easily be double the "output" as what he did here. Hopefully, lesson learned on his end? :shrug: Also looks like he's into standu…

Looks like the goal was to procrastinate less on hobbies and personal stuff, hiring someone to do that stuff would not solve anything.
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