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Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year

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Post by OJFord »

theli0nheart wrote: post #83
chrisfosterelli wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From TFA: > I knew I was spending quite a lot of it on social media, but I wasn't sure how much exactly. I also knew I was working quite a lot and wanted to quantify exactly how much (spoiler alert: not that much). I hoped that keeping track of what I do would help me to identify chunks of time that were being wasted and to turn them into quality time. Tracking time doesn't inherently have to be to optimize for "maki…

> he specifically did this You got the wrong pronoun. "One gal's quest to optimise her life" is the blog's subtitle.

Are we even allowed to assume 'gal's 'use she/her pronouns' though?

More seriously, I never had a problem using 'they' for gender unknown, indeed it was normal and what I was taught in school, and then it suddenly seemed to be he vs. her with 'they' as some weird third thing even fewer people 'identify' as. For centuries we've happily referred to an unspecified person 'with they/them pronouns'.

Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

TrackerFF wrote: post #170

I'm not sure how much alcohol you drink - could be one beer / glass of wine / drink, or it could be multiple units - but for your health, I'd recommend that you take a 3 day break between intake. Drinking for 3-7 consecutive days, is not good for your liver, even in smaller quantities.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-drinks/...

Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year

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Post by ad404b8a372f2b9 »

gingerlime wrote: post #37
ad404b8a372f2b9 wrote: post #21

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Does one of those allow easy input of activity with a single button click without required login and cloud use? Also are they free? I tried to find an easy tracking workflow a few years back but all the apps had hidden dark patterns so I gave up.

I'd be happy skipping the free part for something that preserves my privacy. Off the list GP posted, the first name -- ActivityWatch -- seems to hit the mark? open source, privacy-first, cross-platform according to the homepage[0]. Never even heard of it until now, but I might give it a try :) [0] https://activitywatch.net/

I couldn't find a way to add a task on the android version, only the ability to sort automatically tracked phone usage into categories.

I don't mind paying a one time fee but those I had seen used a subscription model.

Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year

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Post by syndacks »

l33tbro wrote: post #167

"Today’s society is no longer Foucault’s disciplinary world of hospitals, madhouses, prisons, barracks, and factories. It has long been replaced by another regime, namely a society of fitness studios, office towers, banks, airports, shopping malls, and genetic laboratories. Twenty-first-century society is no longer a disciplinary society, but rather an achievement society". - Byung-Chul Han

We still very much live in a Foucauldian world:

- we're constantly surveilled (school, jobs, gov't) and mostly we willingly submit to this

- r.e. "21st century is no longer a disciplinary society", yes it is, see my point above. we (they?) just succeeded in making the discipline less overt, more complicit. we don't need jails anymore we just need smartphones (see Social Dilemma)

- that list is not one of an "achievement society", rather, one of a consumption society lubricated by surveillance (masquerading as individualism, success etc)

Oui very much live in a Foucauldian world!

Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year

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Post by sopp »

OJFord wrote: post #211
theli0nheart wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> he specifically did this You got the wrong pronoun. "One gal's quest to optimise her life" is the blog's subtitle.

Are we even allowed to assume 'gal's 'use she/her pronouns' though? More seriously, I never had a problem using 'they' for gender unknown, indeed it was normal and what I was taught in school, and then it suddenly seemed to be he vs. her with 'they' as some weird third thing even fewer people 'identify' as. For centuries we've happily referred to an unspecified person 'with they/them pronouns'.

It seems like its still safe to refer to someone of gender unknown as "they/them". It actually normalises the use of those pronouns which makes it simpler for people iddntifying as non-binary too.

Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year

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Post by [deleted] »

istorical wrote: post #194
TrackerFF wrote: post #170

I'm not sure how much alcohol you drink - could be one beer / glass of wine / drink, or it could be multiple units - but for your health, I'd recommend that you take a 3 day break between intake. Drinking for 3-7 consecutive days, is not good for your liver, even in smaller quantities.

where is the threshold of # of drinks in a day where daily drinking begins to adversely affect liver? I thought a glass of wine a day was considered neutral or positive, so how many glasses of wine is unehealthy for 3-7 consecutive days?

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Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year

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Post by deepGem »

Draiken wrote: post #49

I am always baffled how sad this extreme focus into productivity makes me. If you discovered you were going to die in a year, would you continue to spend all your time being "productive"? I figure almost everyone would shift all their focus on doing things that "really matter". Sadly I believe the world managed to make us feel guilty when we're not doing something that makes someone else rich (majority of jobs). I'm…

I am quite baffled too.

Finding out how little focused work I do, even on the days that feel productive, was one of the biggest surprises of analysing my data. It turns out that a typical working day (9-17) would usually only give around 5-6 hours of actual work,

I'd be more than happy to get 5-6 hours of productivity in a day. I think even 2-3 hours of good focused work is really good for me.

PhD education is mostly real hard work so I wouldn't equate it to like reading emails etc. So yeah, this is super solid 5-6 hours of focused work solving some deep technical problems. Every day. This is no joke and nothing to feel bad about.

Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year

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Post by dtran »

jader201 wrote: post #139
oblio wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your viewpoint still dismisses one of the best categories of "time wasting"/"things that really matter": time spent socializing with friends and family. There have been a few studies that were pointing out people in Southern Italy live very long and happy lives (I think happiness was self-reported), despite living in relative poverty compared to developed countries. Sun + healthy diets + lots and lots of intense soci…

> I think happiness was self-reported Isn’t that implied? How else can you measure happiness aside from someone telling you they’re happy? Somewhat of a genuine question — curious if studies/surveys use some other way to measure happiness.

I did see one such study that looked at emotional expressions/body language rated on a Joy-Sadness Display Scale by 5 trained observers in addition to self-reported measures: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233265431_Experienc...

Of course, this wouldn't really work for a longitudinal study.

Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year

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Post by buggythebug »

TrackerFF wrote: post #170

I'm not sure how much alcohol you drink - could be one beer / glass of wine / drink, or it could be multiple units - but for your health, I'd recommend that you take a 3 day break between intake. Drinking for 3-7 consecutive days, is not good for your liver, even in smaller quantities.

That's all genetics. I know older men with stressful jobs who have been drinking 7-8 drinks a day for the past 40 years and they are happier and have more energy than anyone I've met.

Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year

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Post by dqv »

chrisfosterelli wrote: post #66
Draiken wrote: post #49

I am always baffled how sad this extreme focus into productivity makes me. If you discovered you were going to die in a year, would you continue to spend all your time being "productive"? I figure almost everyone would shift all their focus on doing things that "really matter". Sadly I believe the world managed to make us feel guilty when we're not doing something that makes someone else rich (majority of jobs). I'm…

From TFA: > I knew I was spending quite a lot of it on social media, but I wasn't sure how much exactly. I also knew I was working quite a lot and wanted to quantify exactly how much (spoiler alert: not that much). I hoped that keeping track of what I do would help me to identify chunks of time that were being wasted and to turn them into quality time. Tracking time doesn't inherently have to be to optimize for "maki…

As a side note... what does TFA mean? I've seen it a few times here. Does it mean "the f*cking article"?
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