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Death will come for you regardless of your productivity.
Yes, but you can either die having achieved your goals, or die with them unmet.
You won't know either way. Few people die knowing they will.
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#342The recent episode _What we do in the Shadows_ : “Go Flip Yourself” has the gang watching a version of property brothers while their house is falling apart around them.
I thought it was part of the subtext, at least… unproductive watching others do what you need to do.
I’ve experienced this firsthand when asking my partner if maybe we can think about picking up… so yeah, the TV remote was picked up so Marie Condo [sp?] videos could light up the TV… and instead of just picking up, it’s a watch party of someone else picking up :(
I hate productivity-tube for this!
/end rant
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> Especially in IT nothing will get you further than being smartly lazy. One day I'll finish my "self-help" book which is all about doing as little as possible and leaving everything until the last minute in case it resolves itself. Unfortunately, I listen to my own advise and will probably never finish the book.
We have AI now to take our laziness to the next level, so there you go (quoted text is AI generated) Write a blurb for a self-help book that is about doing as little as possible and leaving everything until the last minute in case it resolves itself, it's called "The JIT Productivity Method" > The JIT Productivity Method is a revolutionary new system for getting things done. It's the antithesis of the traditional "wo…
Great minds think alike ;). I, too, have been playing around with the free OpenAI tokens trying to get it to write the book for me.
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>the people who were into FIRE [...] have ended up markedly worse off by their own definition of success than people who took more traditional routes. Can you please elaborate?
Sure, the people I know who: - Focused on getting passive income streams set up through real estate, stock investment, content creation, retail arbitrage, etc. - Were particularly frugal with their money and avoided travel, parties, 'lifestyle creep', etc. - Attempted to min/max their careers by switching jobs every 1.5 to 2 years and negotiating hard each time. Are: - Still not retired in their mid to late 30s. - On…
I think you have a somewhat distorted understanding of what FIRE means, or at least one that is different to my own understanding of the term.
I think of FIRE as essentially trying to optimise lifestyle and work in order to quickly reach a point where you don't need to work by paying attention to your income and expenses. This doesn't necessarily imply extreme frugality, and I think the mindset should actually make you more likely to go into big tech or the like because increasing income has a bigger impact than decreasing expenditure on for most people.
For sure there are people in the space who are trying to sell people on the idea that drinking coffee or not is the factor in when they will retire - but these people are fundamentally hucksters I think.
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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?)
Some people who push these values on social media care way more about the image of being a "successful person" than actually doing what it takes to achieve success (which rarely involves bragging about how hard you work on social media). They're at best untrustworthy sources and at worst snakeoil salesmen. Speaking of the latter there's a special brand of cognitive dissonance being shown here. If there were some sure…
> If you really believe that these habits would make anyone successful then you have to explain why everyone isn't doing it.
Everyone else isn't doing it, because it's really, really hard to stick to the habits.
Same reason why everyone else isn't walking with a ripped physique and six-pack. It's simple, just work out 3x a week and count your calories. Why isn't everyone shredded?
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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.
Lonely dudes on the internet ruined stoicism for everyone
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The real deal folks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjfwxZcsKoI
I honestly thought it was satire until the comments showed otherwise. Eat clean… cocktails. Hustle by taking long drives.
And the rest? What is wrong with keeping a schedule, running, resistance training, eating healthy?
Also, long drives are mentioned in the context of "unwind after work" (I see nothing obviously wrong with it).
Alcohol is bad, avoid it if you can but no social life may be worse.
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I’m not qualified to comment on the health factor. In general striving to be healthy is good, no contest there. But regarding working those long and hard hours (which then cannot be spent on other things) maybe we should heed the advice of the dying: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/01/top-fiv... > 2. I wish I hadn't worked so hard. > > "This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed th…
I don't believe in regrets. Regrets are a made up fiction. As an example, let's talk about the "I missed my children's youth". You imagine an alternative life where you would have spent more time with your children, most likely idealized. But in reality, maybe it wouldn't have been a better life. You did things when you weren't with your children, some of them good things or at least leading to good things, these wou…
Regrets are real because there is nothing more clarifying about life than when it’s about to end.
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But then again, nothing makes you feel more empty than achieving a goal...
That's not my experience. I need to be making progress to be sane. Achieving something small everyday makes me have confidence in life and a sense of control. This is crucial to keep existential dread at bay. I have a calendar where I track life events (good and bad). It's wonderful to look back and remember that, tlin the last two years, even though I feel like I haven't changed, actually a lot has.
Achieving something is hence a source of joy. But so is eating food.
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always look for places to cut fat Ironically, you should also put butter in your coffee.
why?
There was a trend called 'bulletproof coffee' that went around SV and the startup world about a decade ago, where you were supposed to drink coffee with two spoons of butter and some 'brain enhancing' MCT oil in it. Lots of CEOs went mad for it. I don't think I've heard of anyone still drinking it for a long time.
https://www.bulletproof.com/recipes/bulletproof-diet-recipes...