Productivity porn

Post by muro » Thu, Aug 04, 2022, 10:12 PM UTC

JoshCole wrote: post #407

jisbruzzi wrote: post #374

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For some, productivity equals virtue. A virtuous life is always better than a lazy or vicious life. So you die having lived a better life . And (at least for us catholics AFAIK), a virtuous life leads to heavens.

Catholics have far better news than that you get to heaven on the basis of personal productivity. Consider these questions: When and why was toil introduced? Did the prodigal son have riches when he returned to the father to justify himself? Did the Pharisees need to have bread with them? Did the crowd have enough bread? Who provided sufficient bread: the vine or the lost sheep? If virtue is productivity, then why do…

Post by colineartheta » Fri, Aug 05, 2022, 12:42 AM UTC

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999900000999 wrote: post #54

Life advice, self help, etc, all of it is too general to be helpful to anyone. What works for a 46 year old married mother of 3 probably won't be what works for a 23 year old tech nerd. You have this obsession with becoming some type of super human who can do things vastly beyond your peers. Sure the average 30 year old living in LA will never buy a home. That doesn't concern you super elite hustle bro. Hustle so har…

You keep saying "lifted truck" like it's something to aspire to, but aren't pickups dirt cheap in the US?

Post by bgdkbtv » Fri, Aug 05, 2022, 6:04 AM UTC

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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 had a serious problem with colorscheme tinkering so I decided to use no syntax highlighting and I've never been happier.

Post by leaflets2 » Fri, Aug 05, 2022, 10:26 AM UTC

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Once you realize you only work for (aka being bribed by) BigCo to snuff out their competition it pretty much removes the guilt of not working. I used to have gray hair coming in, and after I stopped being a try-hard the color came back. I was looking so old and tired always, now I am looking and feeling spry! Enjoy life and donate all of the bribes you don’t need to people who need it through direct action so they ca…

>Once you realize you only work for (aka being bribed by) BigCo to snuff out their competition it pretty much removes the guilt of not working. Yes. Exactly. There is no real innovation. All that I see nowadays is corporate drama of passing the blame around, climbing the ladder with politics and all the wrong people put in interesting and important positions. There are a lot of cult like people who take pride in this…

Post by julianlam » Fri, Aug 05, 2022, 1:41 PM UTC

jcpst wrote: post #362

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> 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.

There’s a book about this called “4000 weeks” (thanks for the correction). Basically, all the popular productivity hacks are nonsense, and just make you busier. You do this because of a fear of death. Accept that you will die soon, so just stick to the important stuff.