I tried to do this but every 2 hours, or using wakatime for IDE. But even that seems too much and I dropped after about 3 months.
15 minutes? The author must be really disciplined, also the logging process must be short and efficient.
I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year
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Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year
#272Earlier quoted context omitted.
The long life thing heavily correlates with the lack of quality in record keeping.
In Italy? Italy's not a third world country... Do you have any proof for that?
I think this might be what parent is referring to: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/20187...
Although as far as I can see, the paper has not been peer reviewed yet (but it's also quite old)
Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year
#273I 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…
Making someone else money is not the problem. Doing so without getting any satisfaction beyond just earning a paycheck - that's when it gets depressing. Or worse... doing so on a project which you know is doomed, and thus costs your team's time and your company's money.
Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year
#274The fact that you logged 395 days in a year invalidates your entire dataset.
Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year
#275I 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…
"Good morning," said the little prince.
"Good morning," said the merchant.
This was a merchant who sold pills that had been invented
to quench thirst. You need only swallow one pill a week,
and you would feel no need for anything to drink.
"Why are you selling those?" asked the little prince.
"Because they save a tremendous amount of time," said the
merchant. "Computations have been made by experts. With
these pills, you save fifty-three minutes in every week."
"And what do I do with those fifty-three minutes?"
"Anything you like..."
"As for me," said the little prince to himself, "if I had
fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at
my leisure toward a spring of fresh water."
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little PrinceRe: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year
#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I don't mean that it's unsafe, just that it's somehow become controversial or at least less usual, people laboriously writing 'he or she' where I'm sure they wouldn't have ten years ago; 'they' isn't a modern invention it was always fine, and I suppose for the modern world is more inclusive than 'he or she' anyway!
Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year
#277Earlier quoted context omitted.
Progression in guitar makes you happy because guitar makes you happy. It isn't the other way around.
No, there is satisfaction in improving a skill. I enjoyed getting faster at end of night audits at my job in high school. I absolutely did not enjoy the audits themselves.
The original take wasn't about conflating satisfaction/happiness with progressing through hard, tedious work. It's, more to the point, equating both concepts. As in: You can only attain happiness and satisfaction if you improve/progress.
It's perfectly possible to practice guitar and attain some level of proficiency, while detesting the concept of playing the guitar. As in, looking at the instrument, how to play it and how to get better at it from a strictly utilitarian point of view. e.g. I learn to play the guitar because I need to become good at it because I want to get a well paid job in the music industry as a musician.
Inevitably, though, you will be wondering why you are pushing yourself through the pain as you drag yourself to your weekly guitar practice sessions.
Conversely, it's perfectly valid to simply pluck at the strings, gradually explore the instrument and what it can do, and become increasingly more interested, motivated, incentivized to play as time marches on e.g. because you like the sound, the feel of the strings, finding like minded spirits, enjoy the rhythm, the way it allows you to express how you feel and so on.
You becoming more proficient, in that regard, is subservient to the above. It's a function of the fact that you are intrinsically motivated to keep playing. Because you play the guitar for no other reason then that doing that resonates with who you are.
Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year
#278Interesting. He was breaking his concentration every 15 minutes. Can only imagine how much he got done the whole year...
Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year
#279I 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…
Unlike many folks here, I agree with you (in that a lot of focus on productivity makes me sad). For a point of contrast, though, every now & then I'll log my activities for a week -- just a week -- as a way of auditing my commitments. Am I spending a lot of time on things I don't value? Am I enjoying what I'm doing? At this stage in my career/life, I actually want to put a limit on my employed hours. Side projects, f…
I have to suggest two books here:
- If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy?
- The Right Life: Human Individuality and Its Role in Our Development, Health and Happiness
Both books are focused on reshaping our effort and expliciting our real needs to make us happier.
Re: I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year
#280I tried to do this but every 2 hours, or using wakatime for IDE. But even that seems too much and I dropped after about 3 months. 15 minutes? The author must be really disciplined, also the logging process must be short and efficient.
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