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Re: Productivity porn

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Post by weakfish »

Yajirobe wrote: post #47
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…

Reminds me of this awesome video - The Hustle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U

This is my all time favorite video to show people

> “Check robinhood. All red, just as I expected.”

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by Trasmatta »

Yajirobe wrote: post #47
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…

Reminds me of this awesome video - The Hustle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U

The videos on that channel are so good that they're painful to watch, when you realize how closely it matches the life you're living.

This one is my favorite (or "least favorite" depending on how hard it hits on any given day): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYvhC_RdIwQ

I feel like the people doing that channel could write a very effective modern Office Space.

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by R0b0t1 »

grudg3 wrote: post #48
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 read this in my head like the intro to Trainspotting.

Fitting, overwork is a coping behavior for some people. Just like taking drugs is for others.

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by 999900000999 »

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 hard you have 3 houses, 2 lifted trucks, and a dog who can speak basic French.

Most of us are by definition average. Actual life advice for our above character would be to move somewhere with affordable housing, only buy a lifted truck if you have cash, etc.

No body wants to read.

"Fix your life over 18 to 24 months by making difficult choices"

People want.

"Fix your life in 3 weeks, only takes 30 minutes a day"

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by lkschubert8 »

doix wrote: post #50
LordHeini wrote: post #31

I really don't get any of those "be more productive", book, video, course and so on. Every single person I know just wastes their time with that. Usualy they work long hours and still don't get much done. But hey, they have Zettelkasten with things the never read. A to do list with stuff they never do. And they go out in the morning at 5 for jogging, while gulping down a liter of coffe or energy drinks which results…

> 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.

The JIT Productivity Method. You'll have it written just as soon as someone goes to read it.

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by ourmandave »

baal80spam wrote: post #37
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…

> Work 18 hour days ...and meditate the other 6.

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!

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by mustafabisic1 »

ChildOfChaos wrote: post #30
mustafabisic1 wrote: post #24

Love it, and totally felt this myself. That's why I created a newsletter for remote working parents. To be on the creation side and as least as possible on the consuming side. https://thursdaydigest.com/

Your solution to productivity porn is to create more productivity porn?

Everything about this post seems to be like that lol There is something to it for sure. Thanks for the comment, you cracked me up :D

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by sdoering »

the__alchemist wrote: post #13

Where's the line? Watching self-help content is described in the article as productivity porn. What about reading a self-help book? A (let's say good quality) non-fiction book? A scientific paper? A text book? Taking a class? Working on a project that is likely to fail? Writing code? Writing an article? Writing a book? > When I look for solutions to this problem I only come up with half-baked ideas and more questions…

I think in the end the question is what the result is. Does the self help content prompt action, ideally sustainable action. Or is it porn as described.

Like porn could be a tool for people to engage in (re)productive action. Or just porn.

Re: Productivity porn

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Post by dougskinner »

macrael wrote: post #35

I can't find an online article where Merlin Mann discusses this but I remember very vividly him talking about why he stopped posting on 43Folders.com a decade ago. 43Folders was a GTD productivity porn site and after while Merlin decided that he didn't want to be "giving drugs to addicts" and stopped posting little "5 ways to write a better task title" articles for all the same reasons OP is writing about here.

Here ya go, one of my all time favorites of his: https://www.43folders.com/2011/04/22/cranking
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