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Re: Productivity Blocker

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Post by electrondood »

kettleballroll wrote: post #42
Sebb767 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably "productive" distractions, since you can do them a lot more before feeling bad and going back to work. Especially if you can silently get into the "fun" territory. I've actually had this with HN in the last days; I've ditched Reddit for HN because it contained a lot more worthwile content and valuable discussions [0], but with the Twitter shitshow I've come to enjoy a lot of snarky, unproductive discussions…

> I've ditched Reddit for HN because it contained a lot more worthwile content I found that at least for myself, this was just a lie I kept telling myself. HN contains almost zero actionable content, and I've not been an epsilon better off for reading it. I come to see it as infotainment.

HN comments are less sarcastic, cynical, info-free than Reddit comments.

Re: Productivity Blocker

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Post by jdhdjdbdjdbd »

auggierose wrote: post #60
nunodonato wrote: post #58

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Which means you didn't actually understand what it was about, which was the point of the comment ;)

I don't disagree. Understanding things takes time, and most things are not worth understanding them.

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Re: Productivity Blocker

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Post by eastbound »

kettleballroll wrote: post #42
Sebb767 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably "productive" distractions, since you can do them a lot more before feeling bad and going back to work. Especially if you can silently get into the "fun" territory. I've actually had this with HN in the last days; I've ditched Reddit for HN because it contained a lot more worthwile content and valuable discussions [0], but with the Twitter shitshow I've come to enjoy a lot of snarky, unproductive discussions…

> I've ditched Reddit for HN because it contained a lot more worthwile content I found that at least for myself, this was just a lie I kept telling myself. HN contains almost zero actionable content, and I've not been an epsilon better off for reading it. I come to see it as infotainment.

HN was my MBA back in 2010-2013, that’s where I learnt how to create a working startup. There were blogs like Kalzumeus or Joel On Software, people were still debating technical or business issues about startups.

Now it’s more a news aggregator. It’s my fault too, I don’t blog about the company I’ve created, and people can learn how to create proper startups in many places.

Re: Productivity Blocker

#146

Post by kramerger »

brezelgoring wrote: post #112
kramerger wrote: post #105

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I know you are joking but Tesla had an entire team devoted to making sure Elon does not fuck up important things. I believe it is well documented that critical personnel were hidden when he was visiting the factories to avoid getting them rage-fired

I want to believe this but I can't find a source, can you share where you've read this?

These stories came from a former Tesla manager. But if you want a reputable source:

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-tesla-life-inside-giga...

Re: Productivity Blocker

#147

Post by culi »

coffee_cup wrote: post #119
Sebb767 wrote: post #5

I'm somewhat disappointed that there is no Firefox version. However, given that the author most likely uses his extension, I can see what might have happened.

There's leechblock

I use leechblock. It's pretty great. It's extremely feature rich. The UI is a little ugly but "ugly" in the style that a hackernewser would likely appreciate.

My only complaint is the way it does this thing when you're out of time and it redirects you (either to their block page or a custom page you set up). Not sure how it does it but the original url you tried to reach doesn't get saved in your history. If I try to manually disable the extension it'll also automatically close the page with the leechblock message so it's gone forever. Kind of annoying if it's a link I'd like to revisit after work

Other than it's pretty neat

Re: Productivity Blocker

#148

Post by retSava »

deelly wrote: post #90
retSava wrote: post #65

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Sure it wasn't a weird grazing ritual? A cron script would've replaced you doing that, more efficiently and reliably. When I did military service abroad, the new chefs rotating down was put on "sandwich alert" in which anyone on camp signal centers could call in the middle of the night, requesting a nice sandwich delivered. It was all fun and games, they were shortly let in on the thing and we all laughed at it after…

> No-one abused it. Honest question: how can you be 100% sure?

Well I can't really, just hearsay. We were just a battalion and most were out on diverse smaller camps or manning checkpoints and the like, so we weren't that many that even could abuse it. And, it's a kind of abuse in essence really, so we can probably reverse my statement.

Re: Productivity Blocker

#149

Post by culi »

ninjin-carh wrote: post #74
nunodonato wrote: post #59

The comments here give us a good idea on how many people leave a comment without actually opening/reading the page :')

LOL. I did read it but thought it was suggesting slack etc were blocking productivity hence helped focus.

Same. it has pages like TEDx and Fiverr which I don't typically consider productivity sites...

Re: Productivity Blocker

#150

Post by brezelgoring »

kramerger wrote: post #146
brezelgoring wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want to believe this but I can't find a source, can you share where you've read this?

These stories came from a former Tesla manager. But if you want a reputable source: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-tesla-life-inside-giga...

Thank you, that was a nice read.

Good day to you, kramerger.

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