Ah, to be young...
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
#152One word comes to mind: cringe.
Please go live on a farm or something and do real work.
Re: I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
#153I like how he concluded that $88 per extra productive hour is worth it and more people should consider it. Here’s other ways you could introduce productivity: 1. Hire house cleaners @400/month for a large house to come in twice a month. 2. Get a grammarly or similar subscription @60/month to write documents faster 3. Personal trainer 2 days a week for $60/session 4. A dietitian for weekly sessions @100/session (you c…
Just what you listed comes out to USD 1540 a month ... which (here in Germany) is more than half of what an average software developer earns [1]. [1] https://platri.de/informatiker-gehalt/
Right I wasn’t suggesting you do all of the above. Plus in Germany, those costs are lower.
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#154I 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 doubt this 0%. I’ve hired people just to help me focus and also to help with chores. To me, this is someone with the same job in the same city as me just taking what I’ve done two steps further. Literally nothing in that post is unbelievable to me, including the behavior of the people he hired. In the first paragraph he did mention tools for focusing, saying he went as far as making his own.
> I’ve hired people just to help me focus and also to help with chores
But were those people the same? Usually have have one type of person for each purpose, one psychologist/therapist to help you figure out why you can't focus and then one cleaner that helps you keep a tidy house.
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#155I'm not sure why there so many negative comments. I work from home for myself and I can say not having a boss to report to makes it easier to get bogged down in non productive tasks. When I used to go to an office and had a manager there was always that external pressure to get things done. I have to constantly remind myself to be productive and not spend time on time wasting websites so I can see how just knowing so…
I agree. The amount of negativity on this post is bizarre. If you don’t like something informative that someone has written, ignore it.
I really enjoyed the post and found it useful.
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also reads a bit like American Psycho 2.0 (or 3.0 NFT edition)
>Also reads a bit like American Psycho My thoughts exactly. I read this part using Patrick Bateman's voice in my head: >"The rest of the experiment continued in a similar fashion (albeit less hectic), with me doing yoga and working out in the morning, working my job, working on my company, reading books, doing my UI/UX course, writing blog posts, working on some side projects, all interspersed with ping pong and brea…
Exactly. Blog posts (wtf is that all about, writing blog posts as a task/job?) and reading reactions on HN reminds me of business card scenario.
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#157I'm quite surpised how many people here are strongly shocked by what for me looks just like self-organized ghetto co-working plus a bit of domestic service. There's also obsession with productivity but I think many of us have been there at some point. I don't think there's anything wrong with that guy, the whole thing is framed as an experiment and I don't think it brought any harm to anybody. Btw ... Is 'ghetto' rac…
I'm also shocked by the amount of people shocked. Guy chose the most straightforward action for his goals, good for him
Re: I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
#158The amount of negativity on this post is bizarre. If you don’t like something informative that someone has tried and written about, why bother complaining about it?
In contrast, I enjoyed the post and found it useful.
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#159Universal Summarizer was making the rounds on HN recently ( https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum ) and when I clicked on the link here (I hired 5 people), I decided I didn't want to read so much text. So, in keeping with Simon Berens' theme of increasing productivity (or at the very least, increasing the throughput of my procrastination), here is a summary: https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://simonberens.me/blog...
It’s missing all the weirdness of the original.
Re: I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
#160> When I woke up, I put the finishing touches on a blog post I had started earlier in the week and published it. It hit the #1 spot on Hacker News; I couldn’t stop myself from constantly refreshing the post as it got more upvotes while chuckling at the classic Hacker News hate comments. I only escaped the Skinner box when Sophia came in and I explicitly told her I wasn’t to be allowed on Hacker News.
Ah, the feeling! Nothing like it.