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Re: Be Productive Anywhere: Strategies for Better Remote Work

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Post by brianwawok »

JshWright wrote: post #30
brianwawok wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Coffee is mostly water believe it or not. If someone tells you it doesn't count they are fail.

Anyone who has ever made coffee should have a fair idea of how much water is in it... I think the concern people have with coffee is that caffeine is a diuretic, so you lose more water than you take in. While it's technically true that coffee does make you urinate more, it's a very tiny effect.

Except with regular use the diuretic effect goes away. There is no measurable difference in hydration levels of coffee vs non coffee drinkers. If it had a long term effect you would expect the coffee drinkers to be chronically dehydrated.

Re: Be Productive Anywhere: Strategies for Better Remote Work

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Post by JshWright »

brianwawok wrote: post #31
JshWright wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anyone who has ever made coffee should have a fair idea of how much water is in it... I think the concern people have with coffee is that caffeine is a diuretic, so you lose more water than you take in. While it's technically true that coffee does make you urinate more, it's a very tiny effect.

Except with regular use the diuretic effect goes away. There is no measurable difference in hydration levels of coffee vs non coffee drinkers. If it had a long term effect you would expect the coffee drinkers to be chronically dehydrated.

No, even in very short term use, the net effect of drinking coffee is to increase the amount of water in your body. The diuretic effect of the caffeine is more than offset by the water in the coffee (by a very wide margin).

Re: Be Productive Anywhere: Strategies for Better Remote Work

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Post by msm23 »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #13
JshWright wrote: post #5

The "you are all dehydrated and need to drink 37 glasses of water a day" myth really needs to die... I'll let Dr Carroll rant for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbHp7cu2Ubk

3.2 liters of water a day is much less than 37 glasses of water. The article mentioned 3.2 liters.

That would be just over thirteen and a half cups of water, which may or may not be a lot depending on heat, humidity, activity level, and most of all, are you thirsty?

Re: Be Productive Anywhere: Strategies for Better Remote Work

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Post by wott »

humanrebar wrote: post #6

> If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride. And it will encourage you to do another task. It bothers me when people present anecdata like this. I don't have a problem with people feeling this way. But it's a huge leap of logic to say that this phenomenon is generalizable, especially since there absolutely are counterexamples. I,…

Even if a few of this kind of tricks sometimes work, my experience is that their effect vanishes after a few days and you're back to square one. I guess it is because they are just tricks: your mind (well, mine, at least) can only be abused or abuse itself so long, and then it detects the trickery.

Re: Be Productive Anywhere: Strategies for Better Remote Work

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Post by rixed »

Kiro wrote: post #12
lifeisstillgood wrote: post #8

Remote work is like catnip to me. Not the actual work thing (I spent 18 months working for a Texan university while five time zones away, so I know a little about it) but the thing for me is the movement Remote work should be everywhere. Almost every office job could be done remotely with far less crappy distraction. I think that there are genuine difficulties with close co-ordination, with productivity etc, but thes…

Or because people are like me - completely unable to work from home. I've been doing it for the past 6 months and it has totally destroyed my productivity. I've tried all the tricks, nothing helps. I'm just not fit to work remotely.

Have you tried to work remotely from home? I've found what work best for me is libraries (surprise) and some days just to move from one place to another.

Re: Be Productive Anywhere: Strategies for Better Remote Work

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

jackson23 wrote: post #25
Kiro wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or because people are like me - completely unable to work from home. I've been doing it for the past 6 months and it has totally destroyed my productivity. I've tried all the tricks, nothing helps. I'm just not fit to work remotely.

I've been mostly working remotely (80-90% remote work) as a developer and consultant for over a decade. The changing point for me was to have a dedicated office space (an entire bedroom or den). Let's face it, if you are working late in the evening at the office and no one else is in the office, what difference is there from working remotely? Now, for me, it mostly doesn't matter where I work from: home office, rente…

I like the camera position trick - very nice

Re: Be Productive Anywhere: Strategies for Better Remote Work

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Post by camillomiller »

These kind of advice articles about personal productivity never really take into consideration that you might be sharing your living space with someone else. Sure, I'll make my bed at 5.45 every morning, first thing of the day, just let me wake up my girlfriend super early too, just because I'm a productivity freak. Sorry hon', Tim Ferris told me to do that!

Re: Be Productive Anywhere: Strategies for Better Remote Work

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Post by methyl »

saurabhjha wrote: post #38

I have been working remotely for past few months after spending years at offices and I can say, it's way more productive.

The same for me. Author claims that remote working is less productive, but I can negate it very easily - for me, it is not. I feel much more productive when the only distractions are Facebook and Slack. They are still there in the office and we have to count in additional distractions like people talking.
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