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Ultimate life hack: 1. Dude, move to Venus where a day is 5,832 hours. 2. Become a 10,000 hour expert in less than a weekend bro! 3. Profit!

Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days

I got a free copy of "Sam's Teach Yourself C# in 21 Days" at some Microsoft sponsored career fair thing for students.

While not a bad book overall, each chapter was supposed to be "1 day" and I definitely did wonder what planet Sam lived on.

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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…

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I admit this is not central to the article but I take issue with the authors statement that the incentives of our digital world "might *even* lead to radicalization". Put this way it suggests that radicalization is unquestionably evil, which I vehemently disagree with.

Women have voting rights because some other women embraced radicalization and this is just one example.

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I always thought Solomon summarized it most succinctly, in the latter part of this passage:

"The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails—given by one shepherd.

Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them.

Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body."

Ecclesiastes 12:10-12

:)

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> 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…

Yes ,you are correct

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The Jewish people have their Sabbath, as a hispanic person myself, we have our Siesta. I spent over a decade in the tech industry and I'd literally be scoffed at for actually napping in a nap room or pod for 20min. Finally just started doing it in my car. But that's one of my practices that anchors me not only to my culture, but my Creator. It humbles me. And brings me joy. I hope everyone could find what their pract…

> Most people want to be productive because they want to feel valued by others. But if you have to look to your own value from others, you've already lost, and will continue to lose forever.

I think for me its about fear of death.

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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

Well that was uncomfortable...

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Interestingly, this post itself is exactly what the author denounces. A lot of words that don't accomplish anything.

Not dissing the post, it's excellent. Just pointing out.

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Interestingly, this post itself is exactly what the author denounces. A lot of words that don't accomplish anything. Not dissing the post, it's excellent. Just pointing out.

How can a post be both excellent and accomplish nothing?

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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?)

Nothing wrong with living a healthy lifestyle (healthy diet, working out, taking care of your mental health) and being ambitious about your career. But these brofluencers (Andrew Tate being the latest one) just regurgitate and compound the same ol' to new levels. They mostly cater to young, impressionable, and desperate kids - promising that if you just follow these easy steps, then luck will come your way. And the w…

It's like Evangelical Capitalism. Or something.

We're deep into the land of MLM attitudes - usually without the explicit MLM pyramid - and Warrior Forum grifters.

It's not a new scene. Outside of Techia, a site called The Salty Droid has been tracking some of the worst excesses for over a decade now.

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