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Re: Productivity porn

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Post by zeroth32 »

shortstuffsushi wrote: post #250
jjice wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

New pick ups are pretty expensive, at least from my perspective. A baseline F150 starts at 40k-ish. A decked out one could run you near double that I believe. Compare to a baseline Civic at around 23k.

I bought a new F-150, XL edition (lowest) in 2020 for 29k, just for reference. On the Ford site, it appears the new models at a similar trim level are about 31k. Most people don't buy the baseline "work truck," which is what mine is (4x2, 3.3L, 8ft bed, short cab), but they don't have to be 40k. Add 4x4 and any level of trim and you're there, though.

that is pretty cheap, compared to europe after all taxes... 31k gets you fake SUV on sedan platform, not F150

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Post by zotronix »

bribri wrote: post #289

> Productivity porn is anything that after having been consumed makes you feel like you were productive when in reality you didn’t actually do anything. I disagree with the line of thinking that all research which isn't immediately useful is unproductive. It just needs to be limited. Set a time limit of 30 minutes per day for researching and improving your meta process. Those articles on AI you read on hackernews mig…

Could not agree more. That is the core idea behind the power of novelty search and open-endedness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLi0eIdyQU4

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Post by j7ake »

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

Great, now I will never be able to read Marcus Aurelius again without associating it with this satire.

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Post by radu_floricica »

There's an old joke I love. "Why do elephants have red eyes? So they can better hide in cherry trees." "But I've never heard of an elephant climbing a tree!" "See how well they hide?"

It's a bit stereotypical by now to hear about influencers preaching 4am wakeup times. But the truth is that some of that stuff works. And more importantly, the general attitude of trying to improve your daily process sure as hell works. It took me well over a decade to move from very struggling freelancer to actually feeling ok with the work I put in, and I've definitely not stopped improving.

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Post by penguin_booze »

Cigarette packets carry grotesque images of disease caused by prolonged use of the product. Likewise, I think social media apps should be forced to periodically display warnings like, "This app is designed to make you feel inadequate, addicted, and lonely. Please don't think its real - that's how we make our living".

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by bribri »

radu_floricica wrote: post #294

There's an old joke I love. "Why do elephants have red eyes? So they can better hide in cherry trees." "But I've never heard of an elephant climbing a tree!" "See how well they hide?" It's a bit stereotypical by now to hear about influencers preaching 4am wakeup times. But the truth is that some of that stuff works. And more importantly, the general attitude of trying to improve your daily process sure as hell works.…

The attitude of dissing people trying to improve themselves is depressing.

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Post by coffee_beqn »

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.

I watched that multiple times after delivering a big feature I had to crunch on late last year. Of course my reward was a”meets expectations “ modest raise.

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Post by biztos »

hackerlight wrote: post #260
biztos wrote: post #182

One of the original, and most effective, competition hacks is to convince people that you sleep less than they do. When someone tells you they sleep 5 hours a night then run two miles and take a 15-minute cold shower then start their work day, 85% of the time they are lying, 10% of the time you will have already noticed the effects of chronic sleep deprivation, and 5% of the time it's drugs. But this has been a suref…

No, some people have a genetic mutation that allows them to sleep for 5 hours a day.

Fascinating, and true about the mutation:

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/gene-id...

So I should update the above to include some percentage who are lying about having this mutation, and an extremely minuscule likelihood your sales manager actually happens to have it. Second prize is a set of 23andMe test kits.

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Post by coffee_beqn »

colpabar wrote: post #89
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.

it is insane to me that this channel is being discussed today because literally 2 days ago it was recommended to me on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

It is very much inside jokes for professionals in the tech industry. Very underrated gem

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Post by coldtea »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #105
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…

I get that this is satire but could you expand on why people who want to be healthy + productive "have it wrong" (which I feel your satirical comment alludes to?) You're "taking the piss" at people who value working hard/long hours, reading, trying to be successful financially, taking care of their health/fitness, cutting ties with loser friends (drug addicts? bums?)

>but could you expand on why people who want to be healthy + productive "have it wrong"

First, because both healthy and productive have long become a rat race.

In that sense, it's not about some e.g. obese person wanting to lose weight anymore, or about some lazy person wanting to get their act together and be more productive, but increasingly about an obsession with dieting and working out, or with working all the time to "make it" and hustling constantly.

Second, because for many those aren't even their own goals, just things instilled in them by influencers, productivity and health peddlers, the media, and co, as a substitute for a meaningful work and a balanced way of life.

Third, because even those dubious goals are often not followed anyway, instead people obsess with productivity and health "porn", todo systems, micro-managing their day (or meals), measurbating, and so on, as opposed to a simple, natural approach to those things.

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