Productivity porn

Post by MuffinFlavored » Wed, Aug 03, 2022, 10:26 PM UTC

Forgeties79 wrote: post #127

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #105

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I get that this is satire but could you expand on why people who want to be healthy + productive "have it wrong" (which I feel your satirical comment alludes to?) You're "taking the piss" at people who value working hard/long hours, reading, trying to be successful financially, taking care of their health/fitness, cutting ties with loser friends (drug addicts? bums?)

The guy spends so much time optimizing every minute of his day that he's functionally not "living." Also notice he has literally no human interaction.

Post by Retric » Wed, Aug 03, 2022, 10:31 PM UTC

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #140

CSMastermind wrote: post #126

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Some people who push these values on social media care way more about the image of being a "successful person" than actually doing what it takes to achieve success (which rarely involves bragging about how hard you work on social media). They're at best untrustworthy sources and at worst snakeoil salesmen. Speaking of the latter there's a special brand of cognitive dissonance being shown here. If there were some sure…

> Some people who push these values on social media care way more about the image of being a "successful person" than actually doing what it takes to achieve success (which rarely involves bragging about how hard you work on social media). Devil's advocate but you can measurably tell if you are financially successful (from working hard/long hours) and our healthy fitness wise (from going to the gym/eating clean/going…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 03, 2022, 10:31 PM UTC

epolanski wrote: post #108

jamil7 wrote: post #84

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2 Years later I still have trouble watching this one, hits too close to home for an old job I had.

Reminds me when I had to sort some payments FE-wise which was a very trivial array sort (there was at most 50 payments per page, nothing impactful performance-wise) on a json array which had a timestamp value, but CTO got involved with this triviality for some reason and started blabbering of how business logic had to be on the backend. I literally had a working feature branch in 10 minutes, but it ended up being a 6…

Post by throw149102 » Wed, Aug 03, 2022, 10:35 PM UTC

TrackerFF wrote: post #32

Hustle and grind. Create 7 streams of income. Work 18 hour days - anything less and you're a loser destined for mediocrity. Read 5 books a week. Start trading stocks and crypto. Take cold showers, hit the gym. Optimize your schedule, log every minute spent. Ditch your loser friends and only hang out with likeminded - success breeds success. Sigma grindset. Moon or bust. If you're not worth $1 million liquid before 30…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 03, 2022, 10:37 PM UTC

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #105

TrackerFF wrote: post #32

Hustle and grind. Create 7 streams of income. Work 18 hour days - anything less and you're a loser destined for mediocrity. Read 5 books a week. Start trading stocks and crypto. Take cold showers, hit the gym. Optimize your schedule, log every minute spent. Ditch your loser friends and only hang out with likeminded - success breeds success. Sigma grindset. Moon or bust. If you're not worth $1 million liquid before 30…

I get that this is satire but could you expand on why people who want to be healthy + productive "have it wrong" (which I feel your satirical comment alludes to?) You're "taking the piss" at people who value working hard/long hours, reading, trying to be successful financially, taking care of their health/fitness, cutting ties with loser friends (drug addicts? bums?)