[Top19]

I like RescueTime, although I think it’s good to use for a few months, get a baseline, and then move on.

More to the point, and taking out my axe to grind, all of this focus on productivity and being a “success!” is helpful, but also amusing and adisheartening. Please stick with me here, but if you look into sociology written over the last 20 years, it’s tragic (but also inspiring) how Americans tried and tried to work harder, even though the cost of everything went up 3x and the amount of work needed to attain that same stuff also went up 3x, thus meaning everything required 9x more effort.

I love people working hard, but it’s shocking when you learn that adjusted to BOTH population growth and inflation, an apartment in New York City should rent for about $900 today.

If linear trends continue (they won’t fortunately, some kind of large crisis will reset them) we’ll be talking about preparing kids to be a “CEO!” at 14 or earlier, maybe even there will be “CEO Camps”. What a delight...

[vkou]

> If linear trends continue (they won’t fortunately, some kind of large crisis will reset them) we’ll be talking about preparing kids to be a “CEO!” at 14 or earlier, maybe even there will be “CEO Camps”. What a delight...

In England, those are called boarding schools. My understanding is that the good ones exist to teach their students how to talk all proper-like, and to have a healthy disdain for the proles.

[AJ007]

According to this, people are mostly pretending to work hard.

[dazc]

You already knew this though?

[sundvor]

"Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work."

(I watched this again three nights ago. Brilliance never dies.)