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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 jzb »

megablast wrote: post #181
Kibae wrote: post #177

One thing I've done to increase my productivity after reading a comment from a Hacker News post [1] is recording my work sessions on OBS. The benefits for me are two-fold: 1) It keeps me accountable while working and 2) I can rewatch my work sessions and recall my thought process from a future me perspective. It's amazing how much you forget about a day, but by watching the recordings after the fact, you recall the m…

OBS - why do people use acronyms that most people have no idea about?

I often feel the same, but I think OBS is the name here: OBS may be Open Broadcasting Studio, or Broadcaster Software, but it seems to mostly go by and be referred to as OBS…

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

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Post by twosdayz »

megablast wrote: post #181
Kibae wrote: post #177

One thing I've done to increase my productivity after reading a comment from a Hacker News post [1] is recording my work sessions on OBS. The benefits for me are two-fold: 1) It keeps me accountable while working and 2) I can rewatch my work sessions and recall my thought process from a future me perspective. It's amazing how much you forget about a day, but by watching the recordings after the fact, you recall the m…

OBS - why do people use acronyms that most people have no idea about?

Because that’s the name of the software?

https://obsproject.com/

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

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Post by joaogui1 »

megablast wrote: post #181
Kibae wrote: post #177

One thing I've done to increase my productivity after reading a comment from a Hacker News post [1] is recording my work sessions on OBS. The benefits for me are two-fold: 1) It keeps me accountable while working and 2) I can rewatch my work sessions and recall my thought process from a future me perspective. It's amazing how much you forget about a day, but by watching the recordings after the fact, you recall the m…

OBS - why do people use acronyms that most people have no idea about?

It's how the software is known really (I think lots of people, including myself, don't recall the original meaning)

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

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Post by [deleted] »

megablast wrote: post #181
Kibae wrote: post #177

One thing I've done to increase my productivity after reading a comment from a Hacker News post [1] is recording my work sessions on OBS. The benefits for me are two-fold: 1) It keeps me accountable while working and 2) I can rewatch my work sessions and recall my thought process from a future me perspective. It's amazing how much you forget about a day, but by watching the recordings after the fact, you recall the m…

OBS - why do people use acronyms that most people have no idea about?

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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 jmckib »

matthewfcarlson wrote: post #100
usefulcat wrote: post #33

> I have an endlessly growing list of projects I want to make, books I want to read, and skills I want to learn, so productivity means a lot to me! If it really meant a lot, it wouldn't be a challenge to actually do it. It sounds like the real problem is a lack of interest in the particular books, skills, etc.

I somewhat identify with this. I have dozens of things I want to do and if I get started on something, I can happily work on it until 2-3 in the morning, even though I usually go to bed at 11. It’s the getting started on something that takes so much effort.

I have the same problem. For me what helps is having a schedule, you do your thing at a certain time automatically every day, which seems to lower the activation energy. For one-off tasks it helps to set myself a reminder that I intend to do whatever it is at a certain time.

But I still struggle with this for sure. I could always use more advice myself.

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

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Post by t-writescode »

fragmede wrote: post #167
tacotacotaco wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Oh no! The person I'm watching wanted to be watched! Wait, what?

I feel like this perspective is missing the point. A lot of what we see on the internet nowadays is pornography. It has no point at all except to be a spectacle and to generate conversation and views and to keep the person watching - thereby getting ads, thereby getting money.

I see a lot of this on TikTok nowadays; and, if my YouTube feed were less curated, I'd probably see it there, too. It's the food videos where someone makes an absolutely terrible meal out of 8 whole fast-food burgers, covered in fries, then honey, then mashed potatoes; or the videos where someone makes a mess with spaghetti and sauce in their hands and then puts it in the oven.

Once I got this perspective on a lot of video content, I could see it basically everywhere.

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

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Post by theonething »

viraptor wrote: post #59
sberens wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Therapy would take away productive time :) I did actually use my own custom built productivity tools to block websites[0], and I used ActivityWatch[1] to track my time. [0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webblock/jeahkphmd... [1] https://activitywatch.net/

> Therapy would take away productive time :) I'm not sure if that's a joke, or not. But if you sincerely mean it - I put it away for years and now I feel like an idiot for wasting a lot of my time fighting rather than actually addressing my issues. This would've been the most productive time investment I could've done a decade earlier.

On the other hand, I've seen a handful of therapists, three of them for longer than six months and really, they've done zilch for me. A waste of money in hindsight. Reading helpful books and really applying the good ones (for me) has helped me more while costing way less, aka bibliotherapy [1]

That's great that therapy worked so well for you, but don't make it out to be a panacea for everyone.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5788928/#:~:tex...

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