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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 markus_zhang »

I'm actually seriously thinking about a similar service: Basically I pick an online course (say Berkely 61B 18spring) and a deadline (say 90 days), and I need to hire someone to make me study. It is not that I do not have the intellect to complete them, the thing is once I get bored I give up. Maybe I'm not that interested but I still need to complete it.

Probably can't do that right now as my toddler wakes a few times every night so the whole family is barely dragging. I'll probably wait until he reaches 5/6 and more independent.

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

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Post by granshaw »

pcthrowaway wrote: post #105
granshaw wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Why does he feel the need to be 'productive' for 16 hours a day? Yeah after reading the post I’m like this guy must be a founder to value productivity so highly… NOPE, just works at Meta! EDIT: Oh wait, he DID also start a company, during the experiment in fact, but of course it’s in stealth mode! Can’t make this stuff up…

Wouldn't hiring people to sit behind you and watch you work be a breach of contract?

I have a feeling this guy doesn’t really care…

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

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Post by Aaronmacaron »

12345hn6789 wrote: post #29

I honestly cannot believe this. The porn part, the make me a smoothie request, dating dinners. This guy seriously paid people to sit behind him and didn't even think about them stealing his $1000 monitors until after the fact? He didn't try blocking any non productive sites? No productivity software? No pomadoro technique-esq focus methods? This guy should have paid $88/hour for therapy if we are being honest here

He's got a 'Date Me' button on his website which takes you to a Google Form where you can apply to be his girlfriend. I can't decide if this makes the blog post more or less believable. Could it be that he's just a satirical character and doesn't really exist?

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Post by trenning »

This reads like a Mike Judge pitch. And some of the comments in here read like this guys burner accounts trying to make it sound like any part of this made sense. I really hope it’s all real because it makes the comedy of it all so much better.

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

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Post by simultsop »

jonathanyc wrote: post #63
12345hn6789 wrote: post #29

I honestly cannot believe this. The porn part, the make me a smoothie request, dating dinners. This guy seriously paid people to sit behind him and didn't even think about them stealing his $1000 monitors until after the fact? He didn't try blocking any non productive sites? No productivity software? No pomadoro technique-esq focus methods? This guy should have paid $88/hour for therapy if we are being honest here

I clicked on the "About" page and learned that the author is 21. For a minute that made the experiment make more sense. Then it stopped making sense again.

Life hitting me with a brick.

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

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Post by tacotacotaco »

12345hn6789 wrote: post #29

I honestly cannot believe this. The porn part, the make me a smoothie request, dating dinners. This guy seriously paid people to sit behind him and didn't even think about them stealing his $1000 monitors until after the fact? He didn't try blocking any non productive sites? No productivity software? No pomadoro technique-esq focus methods? This guy should have paid $88/hour for therapy if we are being honest here

Maybe I’m too cynical but it just seems performative. It seems like any number of YouTube videos where some financially well off influencer spends their money doing something awkward to attract views. And it worked. Here we are gawking at the latest stunt. Like and subscribe. Don’t forget to smash that bell. Check out my patreon for access to my Discord.
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