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Re: Body Doubling

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Post by harrison_clarke »

escapecharacter wrote: post #8
kubb wrote: post #4

Is this common? Maybe that's one of the reasons that people push for RTO, they can't work alone?

The reasons that managers/execs push for RTO are complex, and sometimes disingenuous and nefarious. As someone who’s worked remote (and async) and also in big offices, sometimes I see individual workers celebrating RTO for misguided reasons: 1. They use work as a social space 2. They enjoy the break of getting out of their house/from family/partner 3. The ritual of going to and from work as a separate space is helpfu…

office hours is something i consider a positive, when looking at a job. i get that i could/should solve those things on my own, but it requires executive function and i'd much rather outsource some of it

with both the social and the walking thing, i find it easy to get stuck in a negative feedback loop, where not doing it makes it harder to do it. having a work-mandated minimum walk and social time prevents stalling, making it easier to maintain the habits outside of work as well

this perspective might be flavoured by being neurospicy, though. presumably, if i wasn't prone to stalling my habits that way, it'd be less appealing to tie them to a job or shcool or whatever else

(i currently work remote, though. office is positive, but not positive enough to outweigh the salary difference of working for a local company)

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Post by non- »

I used to host weekly virtual co-working for founders who needed some accountability. We got a lot done during those sessions and ultimately met my co-founder through it. Later today we'll be body doubling virtually to get our taxes done together.

Re: Body Doubling

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Post by wustus »

I’ve noticed this quite a few times before when working with my systems administrator: He calls me in for a debugging session of a problem he‘s been stuck on for some time and within a few minutes (or less than a minute) he finds the solution. I’ve always seen it as him having to reorganize his thoughts to give me a somewhat structured introduction into the problem. And somewhere along the path he finds the missing piece.

Re: Body Doubling

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Post by BurningFrog »

escapecharacter wrote: post #8
kubb wrote: post #4

Is this common? Maybe that's one of the reasons that people push for RTO, they can't work alone?

The reasons that managers/execs push for RTO are complex, and sometimes disingenuous and nefarious. As someone who’s worked remote (and async) and also in big offices, sometimes I see individual workers celebrating RTO for misguided reasons: 1. They use work as a social space 2. They enjoy the break of getting out of their house/from family/partner 3. The ritual of going to and from work as a separate space is helpfu…

That people have different needs than you doesn't mean they're misguided.

People want what they want, not what you or I think they should want.

Re: Body Doubling

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Post by jrflowers »

amfarrell617 wrote: post #18
satvikpendem wrote: post #16

This is a concept primarily for people with ADHD by the way, if you're not in this target group you might not understand why it's needed, as we already see in this thread.

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I like this post. You are cleverly saying that body doubling does not benefit people with ADHD
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