It’s time to embrace slow productivity (2022)
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It’s time to embrace slow productivity (2022)
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#2More importantly, I think, with AI automation coming in full force, we need to decouple one's working hours with their right to live a comfortable life, especially for the lower and middle class.
Re: It’s time to embrace slow productivity (2022)
#3This glosses over the fact that jobs are a central piece—if not _the_ central piece—of many people's identities in the States.
We've lost religion and communities as things that define and provide structure and purpose, leaving us clinging to jobs.
Is this good? No! It's terrible! We should fix this!
However, I'm not convinced that workplace stress is a matter of hours … it may be a symptom of lack of life beyond work—and I don't mean in the "there's not enough time" sense.
I appreciate what Cal Newport advocates for, but it always feels a little surface.
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#5This is true. Only one Sunday is off and the working hours for me are not fixed! The problem with sales jobs is you have to be always on the edge. Like edutech. You need to be always around students and their have continuous followups. For personal life you have to just manage things in between. I feel I am getting angry and I have to do course corrections. But it's hard to earn money at the of the day in certain domains. But yes skills matters
Re: It’s time to embrace slow productivity (2022)
#6This glosses over the fact that jobs are a central piece—if not _the_ central piece—of many people's identities in the States. We've lost religion and communities as things that define and provide structure and purpose, leaving us clinging to jobs. Is this good? No! It's terrible! We should fix this! However, I'm not convinced that workplace stress is a matter of hours … it may be a symptom of lack of life beyond wor…
Hours aren't usually the problem I think where a lot of the stress comes from the fear of getting laid off, losing your health insurance and having your car/home repossessed. People that have lived through these employee purges never recover fully.
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#7This glosses over the fact that jobs are a central piece—if not _the_ central piece—of many people's identities in the States. We've lost religion and communities as things that define and provide structure and purpose, leaving us clinging to jobs. Is this good? No! It's terrible! We should fix this! However, I'm not convinced that workplace stress is a matter of hours … it may be a symptom of lack of life beyond wor…
Many people I've met really could use more fulfilling hobbies.
Re: It’s time to embrace slow productivity (2022)
#8Its the lack of consecutive days off, 2 is not enough.
3 would really be a change. I bet I would accomplish just as much during the week as I do now, workplaces would just have to reduce the number of useless meetings. I spend 4 - 5 hours a day in meetings and am still expected to deliver actual code. Kill the meetings, my code generation would be through the roof. There are several things wrong with the American knowledge work place. Trapping 10 - 15 people on calls for half their day is a huge waste of resources and productivity and leads to less work delivered and more stress overall.
Cut my meetings in half and give me Friday, Saturday and Sunday off and I will show you a 5x developer.
Re: It’s time to embrace slow productivity (2022)
#9This glosses over the fact that jobs are a central piece—if not _the_ central piece—of many people's identities in the States. We've lost religion and communities as things that define and provide structure and purpose, leaving us clinging to jobs. Is this good? No! It's terrible! We should fix this! However, I'm not convinced that workplace stress is a matter of hours … it may be a symptom of lack of life beyond wor…
Maybe work became the central piece in people’s lives because they don’t have time to devote to other things.
It’s a 40 hour work week, but add in commuting and chores and decent sleep and you’re left with a few hours left for other things.
Hard to build an identity around a few hours of something else.
Re: It’s time to embrace slow productivity (2022)
#10More importantly, I think, with AI automation coming in full force, we need to decouple one's working hours with their right to live a comfortable life, especially for the lower and middle class.
Seriously. Yet the political will to make this happen gets polluted by bitter, vindictive narrative. I hope we can find clarity soon to let go of our collective fixation on these foolish narcissistic "leaders" who continue to divide and conquer us. Though I suppose that fixation is a symptom of unresolved junk that might just take generations to work out.