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Re: Productivity porn

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Post by LordHeini »

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 in them being groggy the whole day.

If you ever think you need to adhere to what is preached in any self improvement thing, just don't.

Habe your shit in order, avoid working mor than 7 hours day and take your weekends and vacations seriously.

Especially in IT nothing will get you further than being smartly lazy.

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by TrackerFF »

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, cut off your finger and work even harder. Analyze your productivity and always look for places to cut fat.

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by ChildOfChaos »

redanddead wrote: post #26
sdoering wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Meta point Meta porn

I was listening to Zuckerberg's internal Facebook memo to employees and they're really going all out on VR, they think it'll go big, trying to generate monopolistic effects by subsidizing their VR hardware so that more people buy in, and buying VR studios. Porn. Just give people meta porn

Yet they just increased the cost of the quest by $100

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by mise_en_place »

I guess I take a different approach than the author does. I waste several hours a day on such social media consumption, but I don't delude myself into thinking I was productive. If anything, it lights a fire under me because I wasted so much time, and that gives me a productivity boost to finish the things I was supposed to do.

Re: Productivity porn

#35

Post by macrael »

I can't find an online article where Merlin Mann discusses this but I remember very vividly him talking about why he stopped posting on 43Folders.com a decade ago. 43Folders was a GTD productivity porn site and after while Merlin decided that he didn't want to be "giving drugs to addicts" and stopped posting little "5 ways to write a better task title" articles for all the same reasons OP is writing about here.

Re: Productivity porn

#36

Post by thenerdhead »

Kosirich wrote: post #16

I wonder if people with (adult) ADD are more susceptible to this. Same as the author, I would like to hear the story of someone breaking the cycle for good.

I'm writing a book on this(in my bio). I don't claim to have broke the cycle, but I discuss the challenges of my generation in it.

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by baal80spam »

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…

> Work 18 hour days

...and meditate the other 6.

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by redanddead »

ChildOfChaos wrote: post #33
redanddead wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was listening to Zuckerberg's internal Facebook memo to employees and they're really going all out on VR, they think it'll go big, trying to generate monopolistic effects by subsidizing their VR hardware so that more people buy in, and buying VR studios. Porn. Just give people meta porn

Yet they just increased the cost of the quest by $100

Just checked, yeah you're right! Wonder why

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by [deleted] »

redanddead wrote: post #26
sdoering wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Meta point Meta porn

I was listening to Zuckerberg's internal Facebook memo to employees and they're really going all out on VR, they think it'll go big, trying to generate monopolistic effects by subsidizing their VR hardware so that more people buy in, and buying VR studios. Porn. Just give people meta porn

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Re: Productivity porn

#40

Post by robocat »

thenerdhead wrote: post #17
goatcode wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was disheartened when I read about all these successful people and their lofty advice. I was more disheartened when I realized their advice is just the random stuff they happened to do that on their path to success, and that equivalent advice of the myriad failures that complement them would never be heard (and that both were of approximately equal value). Despite how in the overmind the notion of "correlation is n…

I like to read self-help. I think it can actually change your life. The problem is finding actual good self-help. Most stuff is garbage or dives too deep into a specific topic. One of my favorite authors is Orison Swett Marden ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orison_Swett_Marden ) who writes well-rounded self-help and founded a magazine ironically called "Success". There's also Samuel Smiles who wrote the original tit…

One friend calls them “self harm books” because the vast majority are harmful overall - sold as part of the self-harm-industrial-complex.
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