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Re: Productivity porn

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Post by jabits »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #133
nicbou wrote: post #41

Here is a really pleasant video with a similar message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz4YqwH_6D0 A writer writes. A painter paints. You are not defined by what you want or prepare for, but by what you do . On the other hand, you don't have to spend every waking hour being productive. You can go on a bicycle ride without measuring speed and distance. You can work on things that won't develop into income streams. No…

>You can go on a bicycle ride without measuring speed and distance. It's kind of wild how people need metrics - myself included - in order to feel like they did something. I have been really trying to address that in my own life after I found it had creeped so far into my daily life that it was influencing what video games I play . I mean...what? I blame it on the fitbit I got years ago haha

I agree. My wife and I take ocean swims most days and we both use Apple watches for metrics. She wears hers without fail, but I sometimes (disappointedly) forget to wear mine. When that happens it almost feels like I didn’t work out.

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Post by californical »

Ensorceled wrote: post #27
the__alchemist wrote: post #13

Where's the line? Watching self-help content is described in the article as productivity porn. What about reading a self-help book? A (let's say good quality) non-fiction book? A scientific paper? A text book? Taking a class? Working on a project that is likely to fail? Writing code? Writing an article? Writing a book? > When I look for solutions to this problem I only come up with half-baked ideas and more questions…

If you are spending all your time "sharpening your saw" and no time "cutting wood" ... you are probable over the line.

This is an excellent analogy! If you want to cut wood more effectively and so you watch a few videos about technique, then you try it for a while, watch a few more, improve, find a tool that’ll help, try it and see if it helps — you’re doing it right!

If you go buy a bunch of tools and learn techniques of all of the professional woodcutters, before you’ve even gotten any wood, then you’re probably doing it wrong.

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Post by hodgesrm »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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"

It's like Portlandia for software developers.

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Post by memorable »

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

Alternative front-end version: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U

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Post by memorable »

Trasmatta wrote: post #52
Yajirobe wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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.

Alternative front-end version: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=DYvhC_RdIwQ

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by makeitdouble »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #134
ziddoap wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Parent poster is referring to the people that take "healthy and productive", condense it, distill it, then shoot it into their veins. At some threshold it becomes an obsession, which is not great.

why would anybody want to be unhealthy and unproductive? what is to be gained from those two characteristics?

The more interesting take to me is that to live a meaningful life, you probably want to do a lot of things that are not labeled "productive", and take paths that are not labelled as "healthy".

For most of us the core of our life doesn't fit into neat categories, and trying to throw away stuff that aren't "productive" wouldn't help.

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Post by biggerChris »

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…

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Re: Productivity porn

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Post by pca006132 »

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…

Yes, when you start to feel getting nothing done, tried those so called productivity tricks and doesn't work, start self blaming, it may be a sign for depression.

It is hard to fix this alone, considering the society is constantly telling us that if you don't get stuff done, it is because you are lazy and did not do XYZ. Just find a counsellor or your doctor and see if they have any clue.

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Post by nukst »

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…

I had a serious problem with colorscheme tinkering so I decided to use no syntax highlighting and I've never been happier.
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