Perhaps work-from-home isn't such a great idea after all.
I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
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#222This is incredibly bizarre, to the point where I wonder if this isn't just a creative writing exercise. Why does he feel the need to be 'productive' for 16 hours a day? Why did he think the best way to deal with this was to hire a group of babysitters? Why was he being so weird to his assistants? It just doesn't add up. The whole thing is so damn strange. Maybe this is an experiment on the readers of his article, to…
>Why does he feel the need to be 'productive' for 16 hours a day?
Dude wanted to hit the front page of HN so he wrote the most unhinged productivity porn he could muster.
I do not believe these events actually transpired.
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#223> 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.
> If it really meant a lot, it wouldn't be a challenge to actually do it. Dear god I wish this were true. You have no idea. Hell, I would pay good money right this second to make it true for myself. One of the major struggles of ADD is having things you actually care about being challenging to do. Doesn't matter how important, your brain just says "nope". I struggle with this constantly. Things I truly care about, or…
I couldn’t have said any of this better myself.
> Things I truly care about, or which are exceedingly important are a huge uphill battle just to put any effort at all towards them.
This is the sentence that hit the hardest for me. I’ve been struggling with this since before I can remember and it frustrates me to no end. The worst part to me isn’t even being less productive than I want to be, it’s my brain sometimes not even letting me do things that bring me joy, like spending time with my family or indulging in hobbies. Anything but what I want to be doing is what my brain wants to do.
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#224So interesting and off putting at the same time, I’m wondering if there is a good word to describe this feeling.
That he’s 21, earning so much money, doing all these things, is interesting but also I hope he has some good influences around him to keep him grounded.
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#225This could be straight out of American Psycho:
> Saturday morning Hannah texted me she couldn’t make it, so I slept in and skipped the gym. 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.
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.nl…
> Reading helpful books and really applying the good ones (for me) has helped me Which books do you recommend?
From the article linked:
> The most common books used were Feeling Good and Helping Your Anxious Child: A Step by Step Guide.
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#227One 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?
Concur. 95% of abbreviations I come across on HN are meaningless to me, I have no idea what they stand for.
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#228I 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
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/
Yoga takes away "productive time" too.
Re: I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
#229I 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
> didn't even think about them stealing his $1000 monitors
They would be doing him a favour I think, considering the complete crime against ergonomics that monitor setup is.
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#230Chill guys... I think this guy is being bullied because he is different, like many others. I hope he will hang tight.