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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

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Post by ivm »

coldtea wrote: post #91
sunir wrote: post #57

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I think you have a very narrow understanding of what "productive" means. You can produce or make progress towards anything that you value. Making other people money is just one avenue. If you had a year to live, you would definitely want to be productive. There's a lot that needs to get done to wrap up your one single life well, so that your time on earth wasn't lost. Just getting your will and testament done, talkin…

> If you had a year to live, you would definitely want to be productive. You'd be surprised. That's more of rat-race-disease artifact, where a person is measured by their "achievements" and "success" (as opposed to being intristically worth). Many people of many peoples would want to either relax, love and be with family, or enjoy themselves (and more likely a healthy combination of the two).

Being productive does not mean working towards some kind of publicly recognized success. Exploring your mind in meditation 6 hours a day would be both productive and relaxing, leading to a greater happiness. Playing a video game 6 hours a day would just "kill" this time and bring little-to-no benefit to one's overall well-being.

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

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Post by m000 »

dnautics wrote: post #72
m000 wrote: post #61

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This sentence is exactly the problem. Everything is focused around work and productivity. So much, that you have to pat yourself on the back when find out your work throughput was less than what you thought it was. Why do we read about "I work less than I thought I did and that's ok" and not e.g. "I spent more time with my family than I thought I did, and that's great"?

same article says "I spent more time reading than I thought I did, and it's great"

Yes, drown somewhere in the text, and apparently not important enough to mention in the TL;DR.

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

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Post by mike_mg »

My wife has made tool for doing this on your IPhone. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/take-control/id1499424011

+ it is completely free, no ads, no nothing paid, not snooping your data

+ you don't have to unlock your phone - you can just type what you are doing inside the notification itself / choose from list of your usual activities

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

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Post by platetone »

mike_mg wrote: post #294

My wife has made tool for doing this on your IPhone. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/take-control/id1499424011 + it is completely free, no ads, no nothing paid, not snooping your data + you don't have to unlock your phone - you can just type what you are doing inside the notification itself / choose from list of your usual activities

cool name i've never seen before... currently struggling to come with a new baby girl name. might bring this one up. :)

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

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Post by ntsplnkv2 »

kaitai wrote: post #233
ntsplnkv2 wrote: post #180

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When women weren't in the workforce it was a much easier time to raise children. Now women have to work so that they can have a lower middle class life. Daycare has risen because of this - not because of grandparents not watching their grandchildren.

It is useful to look at history. Women have always worked (other than a particular subset of rich women and then, in the US and western Europe in the 1900s, a slightly broader subset of well-off women). It's just that much of that work was done in or near the home, and for most of human history men worked in or near the home as well. For almost all of human history, the effort made to produce money or food was co-loc…

No one is suggesting that women just played with their kids all day. The idea that women in the past never raised children is just absurd. Sure mothers were workers - my grandmother was. But she did all of her work with her daughters - teaching them to cook, sew, etc.

Spending time with children isn't playing video games with your son. It's hunting, playing sports, teaching, cooking, fighting, fixing things, fishing, etc. Raising a child isn't all about having fun all day with toys.

> Time surveys indicate that even working parents now spend at least twice as much time with their children now as in 1965 [1].

Which is obviously expected. For middle class people in the baby boomer era with large economic benefits, they spent more time with kids. The survey excluded those that wouldn't be able to (e.g. poor people in poor countries.) Selection bias doesn't really tell us anything at all.

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

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Post by kashura »

mike_mg wrote: post #294

My wife has made tool for doing this on your IPhone. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/take-control/id1499424011 + it is completely free, no ads, no nothing paid, not snooping your data + you don't have to unlock your phone - you can just type what you are doing inside the notification itself / choose from list of your usual activities

That smiley after "currently" makes me really uneasy...

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

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Post by test1235 »

monster_group wrote: post #244
tanujraghav wrote: post #224

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I think it means "The Featured Article".

I always interpreted as "The Full Article" (as opposed to just the title).

I like this one ... I've always thought 'the fcking article' to be really passive aggressive.

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

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Post by mike_mg »

kashura wrote: post #297
mike_mg wrote: post #294

My wife has made tool for doing this on your IPhone. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/take-control/id1499424011 + it is completely free, no ads, no nothing paid, not snooping your data + you don't have to unlock your phone - you can just type what you are doing inside the notification itself / choose from list of your usual activities

That smiley after "currently" makes me really uneasy...

Thanks! Removed. What I meant by that is "maybe we will add donate button in the future"

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

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Post by zelphirkalt »

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…

Perhaps I am feeling similar to what you describe. What I try to do is contributing to society instead of to businesses, like I do on the job. Businesses are part of society of course, but there are more direct ways to contribute to society. Personally I like to make everything free software, which I create in my free time, as well as donating to good causes. If everyone did that, I think we would be a lot further. However, there are so many people on this planet, even if only "a few" of us each do a little bit of work, which results in something, that cannot be taken away from society any longer, it will improve things. And let businesses use things as well, as long as they play according to the rules. I don't mind anyone making money off of things, as long as people's freedom and society in general isn't hurt.
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