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Done right, you get a lot more done in the same amount of time pursuing the latter.
Especially if you're going to spend the time anyway.
I've often wondered what alternative schedules could do for somebody's time management. For example, instead of 24 x 60 minute hours, how about 32 x 45m hours? Of course your actual time spent won't change much. Instead of 8 hours sleep you get 10.6, etc. But how would it change how we perceive time? Seems like it would be an interesting experiment.
Sounds like the French Revolutionary Calendar [1] or Soviet Calendar [2], both of which were reportedly quite unpopular. It will be interesting if a 4-day work week catches on - will everyone get Friday off, or will 20% of the workforce get a random day during the week? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_calendar
That's not equivalent to everyone getting a Friday off. That's 20% of 20%...
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I think that quote shows a fair bit of the uncertainty and curiosity about the experience of being a different person that is a core part of empathy. They are offering some conjectures and sharing concerns about what that experience could be like, but not actually passing judgement in that passage.
Definitely agree that uncertainty and curiosity are key components of empathy. I realize that my reaction is probably informed by a part of the question that I didn't include in my quote: ... there’s also a type of person, whom you write about in the book — you call them “productivity bros” — who seems to want to micromanage time and thinks about it in terms of return on investment. I think people tend to use "[BLANK…
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Definitely agree that uncertainty and curiosity are key components of empathy. I realize that my reaction is probably informed by a part of the question that I didn't include in my quote: ... there’s also a type of person, whom you write about in the book — you call them “productivity bros” — who seems to want to micromanage time and thinks about it in terms of return on investment. I think people tend to use "[BLANK…
I think the term productivity bros refers to individuals making a bussiness out of „time management/optimization“ rather than people managing their own time. And most of these deserve to be mocked.
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I think the term productivity bros refers to individuals making a bussiness out of „time management/optimization“ rather than people managing their own time. And most of these deserve to be mocked.
Is that meaningfully different than an author selling a book about how to do the inverse?