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Re: Productivity porn

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Post by schadara »

tamsaraas wrote: post #95
LordHeini wrote: post #31

I really don't get any of those "be more productive", book, video, course and so on. Every single person I know just wastes their time with that. Usualy they work long hours and still don't get much done. But hey, they have Zettelkasten with things the never read. A to do list with stuff they never do. And they go out in the morning at 5 for jogging, while gulping down a liter of coffe or energy drinks which results…

You don't understand how the trick works. I am a person who fell for the bait thrown by info / "guides" sellers.2010-2015 - peak in my life of productivity. I was able to do damn a lot of things altogether. Fix challenging and complex bugs, implement modern and crazy stuff, etc. And my hobby project (game) became popular. Unfortunately, I did not use any GTD / todolists, etc. Maybe a tiny todo program like qtodotxt b…

Wow, damn awesome post. I’m on my phone and can’t type a lot, but I would write a lot if I could about how your post resonated with me.

I’m productive but I’m fighting inner demons constantly. Your post is a good warning. Try to fix the small things before they become big things, like the “no broken windows policy”

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by 999900000999 »

pugets wrote: post #181
notsapiensatall wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow. People are really paying $80k for an F-150? Every time I think I can't get any more cynical, life throws a curveball like that.

I worked with a guy who spent $55k on a new truck. We were both making $18 an hour. He was in his early 20s living with his parents. That was in 2017… I wonder if he’s still paying it off.

Was this in LA by any chance?

I recall making $10 an hour and having a manager berate me for not owning a personal vehicle.

And it was a temp job!

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by mgdlbp »

Yajirobe wrote: post #47
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…

Reminds me of this awesome video - The Hustle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U

Or, from 2007, The Richter Scales - "Here Comes Another Bubble": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I

"build yourself a rocket ship / blast off on an ego trip" – lmao

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by ravi-delia »

the_af wrote: post #139
Trasmatta wrote: post #52

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The videos on that channel are so good that they're painful to watch, when you realize how closely it matches the life you're living. This one is my favorite (or "least favorite" depending on how hard it hits on any given day): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYvhC_RdIwQ I feel like the people doing that channel could write a very effective modern Office Space.

This video is hilarious (like many on that channel). What cracks me up is the little jokes you can miss unless you pause some frames, like "...but not before I read my blogs" --> "What Ancient Mayans Can Teach You About Living Your Best Life" "and journal about creativity" --> "sleep retrospective, epiphanies: 0"

The production value is just immaculate. Every frame is so clearly meticulously constructed to portray the emptiest imaginable life. A man going nowhere at maximum speed, really more of an absence than a man. It's so very close to being too painful to be funny, and I've never even believed in the grind. Just pity for a wretched soul.

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by lisper »

Sometimes I feel as if our entire society has turned into one giant cargo cult. Whether it's OKRs or the latest tech fad or black turtlenecks, everyone looks at the last big hit, picks out some set of superficial features of the person at the top, and says, "Yeah, that is the key to success." No one ever steps back to think about causality or even what they actually want.

Brings to mind one of my favorite aphorisms: furious activity is no substitute for understanding. Very few people seem to subscribe to it, but I've gotten an enormous amount of mileage out of it over the years.

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by stevenfoster »

The Jewish people have their Sabbath, as a hispanic person myself, we have our Siesta. I spent over a decade in the tech industry and I'd literally be scoffed at for actually napping in a nap room or pod for 20min. Finally just started doing it in my car. But that's one of my practices that anchors me not only to my culture, but my Creator. It humbles me. And brings me joy. I hope everyone could find what their practice could be that would bring them this.

Take some time, at least once a year, to sit down with yourself and have a vision for your life not based on work or status (ie vacations or the acquisition of things). If that isn't enough to snap you out, go to a small village in Latin America or maybe like Matthew McConaughey discovered and talked about in his book, a quaint monastery in New Mexico. Stay there until it makes sense.

Most people want to be productive because they want to feel valued by others. But if you have to look to your own value from others, you've already lost, and will continue to lose forever.

Be. You. Slowly. and you'll find you're more valuable than you ever thought.

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by godmode2019 »

CSMastermind wrote: post #188
MuffinFlavored wrote: post #140

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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). 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…

I think time helps shape perspectives here. It can be really hard to tell someone's career or life trajectory in the moment or even in 1, 2, or 5 years. I'm 35 now so I have the benefit of hindsight looking back on the decisions different people my age have made and while I'd be the first to caution against potential bias in data I can say definitively that the people who were into FIRE or grindset or whatever before…

I think you are forgetting to factor in risk,

Those paths are much more risky, a few make it big most don't. But that's the trade off people willingly make, a small shot at making it big, or living a normal upper middle class fully employed lifestyle.

The way I think about it is, if you are on a deserted island, but you have made a nice life for yourself, shelter, water, food.

Do you risk pulling it all down to make a raft to sail into the unknown searching for somewhere better.

May people stay put and justify their stagnant lifestyle by how they are slightly ahead of the people whos raft sunk and had to swim back and start over.

Those people are the movers the shakers of the world, they take in the risk for something more in life.

Every time you fail you are failing upwards, learning skills you didn't have before becoming stronger and building better rafts.

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by schadara »

Arisaka1 wrote: post #189

This is 100% me if you substitute social media browsing with distro hopping and text editor tinkering. Now I understand why redditors decided to call that subreddit "unixporn". My solution: Stick with Fedora and Visual Studio Code, because I've spent at least 100 hours in the past month checking out Neovim, getting my first init.lua to work, messing around with configurations, making telescope work, make telescope lo…

Well, then you’ll be a leet neovim ninja, and you can hack text like no other. Don’t be so hard on yourself. :)

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by TedShiller »

justinator wrote: post #199
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…

Considering tattooing "you are enough." on my inner wrist as a daily reminder.

Funny because if you NEED the tattoo, what does it imply...?

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by quickthrower2 »

biztos wrote: post #182

One of the original, and most effective, competition hacks is to convince people that you sleep less than they do. When someone tells you they sleep 5 hours a night then run two miles and take a 15-minute cold shower then start their work day, 85% of the time they are lying, 10% of the time you will have already noticed the effects of chronic sleep deprivation, and 5% of the time it's drugs. But this has been a suref…

Also no breaks at work, lunch is for wimps. Refer to Will Smith saying how he would die on a treadmill rather than lose. Watch overwork porn like Suits or any legal drama.
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