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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.
"vicious" Think you meant to say "vacuous"
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There was a famous line about it for when the British started colonizing Africa, "only mad dogs and English men go out in the midday sun"
Then one can infer that the Brits' recklessness allowed them to build a globe spanning empire to whom the sun never sets. smirk
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.
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> Valuing hard work, reading and trying to be financially successful is something completely unrelated to trying to do 18 hour work days Are you trying to say "it's easy to be financially successful by working 8 hours a day instead of 18 hours"? like... it's "overstated" that people think they need to "work more/work harder" to become successful?
I'd say you'll probably spend more money on medical bills I'd you were to work 18 hour days 5 days a week for any meaningful amount of time. Or one might be sorely mistaken about what constitutes 18 hour work days - does that include travel and eating time too?
If nothing else, 18-hour workdays leave at the most five hours for sleep (and only one for everything else, like mealtimes and hygiene), so you'll be pretty damn bushed come Thursday and Friday. 15 hours of work would leave seven for sleep, and double your everything-else time to a luxurious two.
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You say that as if (you're trying to convince yourself) it weren't something usual.
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Probably the most production value they put into a video was their Virtual Coachella one https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=67sfZfreOrU Which has way fewer views than it deserves, possibly for algorithm reasons because it was given a cease & desist by actual Coachella https://mobile.twitter.com/EFF/status/1373006482397032449
They have so many other good ones - “Microservices”, “Senior Engineer”, “Ballmercon”, “Computertime with Gooch” are still my favourites.
Computertime with Gooch is probably the weirdest and funniest, but I Have Delivered Value has me in stitches every time. Every time my any of my friends runs into an inconvenience, I ask if it's a blocker, and if it will prevent the KPIs of their life from growing quarter over quarter. Though actually, considering our narrator's ennui is preventing Galactus from knowing the end of the universe and thus from getting user info, maybe he should be a little more focused on deliverables
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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…
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What "P-word"; productivity? Oh, now I see: Porn? You say that as if (you're trying to convince yourself) it weren't something usual.
it may be usual for you, sadly, but it is not objectively usual--in an objectively neutral world, innocence reigns.
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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.
I don't know if you ever read is but I'm really curious to know what font you're talking about.
Dark mode for some reason is very difficult for me and gives me a headache after sometime or makes my head heavy. It is strange because previously I used to use dark mode without any issues and was preferred. Later I switched to lighter/white background with dark foreground.