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Re: Productivity porn

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Post by lynguist »

The name is horrible.

This is the reward you seek for accomplishing something. It’s the ticking of a to-do item, except the items are kind of useless, they just want to be ticked.

This is the same as smoking a cigarette, getting a quick fix, taking the phone with you to the toilet, watching TV at night instead of sleeping, just to finish an internal to-do because you feel like you didn’t accomplish it yet.

The solution I have to it is to exit the house without a phone, and to have something to do. Without the phone you can’t give yourself the quick to-do fixes and you’re more present. And when you have something to do, you don’t want to give yourself the quick fixes.

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by Gigachad »

stevenfoster wrote: post #206

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…

This is more possible with WFH now. I sleep for about an hour a day on work hours and I don't work later to make it back up. Still only get positive feedback about the work I get done.

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Post by xkcd1963 »

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?)

If you abandon your drug addict friends and bums that only shows that somebody with a stronger character wouldn't fear aquiring their attributes nor would aquire them.

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by emsign »

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…

Tricking competition like that is really a zero sum game when it comes to mental health. I don't recommend doing that at all. You don't want to be in an environment like that even if you've contributed to its existence, you're not in control anymore.

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by mindentropy »

stevenfoster wrote: post #206

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…

As an Indian I loved my afternoon sleep during the holidays. During school days I would come home and sleep for an hour while reading something. I really loved my sleep. When I started work I hated that my sleep was reduced drastically. Sleeping late working on personal projects played havoc on my sleep. Now in WFH I sleep for an hour or more in the evening which would have been wasted commuting.

I have seen my cognitive skills decrease because of lack of sleep. Now I am just chilling and catching up with rest and chilling and don't give a crap about work or projects.

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by SanderNL »

Havoc wrote: post #329
SanderNL wrote: post #328

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?

It's productivity porn denouncing productivity porn.

It is both excellent and not accomplishing anything. I'm sorry I don't see a problem.

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by mindentropy »

Arisaka1 wrote: post #189

This is 100% me if you substitute social media browsing with distro hopping and text editor tinkering. Now I understand why redditors decided to call that subreddit "unixporn". My solution: Stick with Fedora and Visual Studio Code, because I've spent at least 100 hours in the past month checking out Neovim, getting my first init.lua to work, messing around with configurations, making telescope work, make telescope lo…

I used to do that and it has helped me quite a bit. Now I know what distro's are good and I can bring up embedded systems much faster and what needs to be packaged.

I also have to have a particular font and color or it would be difficult to focus. Not sure why. Also if I use dark mode I start getting a headache. Not able to figure why it is so.

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by shannifin »

This seems related to another issue I've been thinking about lately: how to effectively measure productivity. I've been working on an MVP for a startup for a lot longer than I'd like. I've done a lot of work, but have gone down so many dead ends or potential "tarpits" that I feel unproductive, because the dead ends result in nothing useful... except learning why they're dead ends.

But how do I judge the most useful (and therefore "productive") thing to do before I do it, since something may become a dead end? I don't know.

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by JW_00000 »

doix wrote: post #343
danielbln wrote: post #332

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You'd better have just waited and done nothing, because danielbln did it for you in the end, and the situation resolved itself. Behold the power of the JIT Productivity Method™.
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