| I do agree with the author, in spirit. Not necessarily the possible implication that winning hackathons requires you to not have OPPD (obsessive productivity personality disorder) :) I mean the "possible" indication that you have to be a non-productivity-chasing savant to be a great coder/etc. I stopped at this line > he was responsible for shipping Facebook Groups and wondered how can this be a compliment in any shape or form. I mean even considering Fb Groups from its day 1, not the bigger Frankenstein it has become today. But I get it. "Shipping" was the achievement. > massive productivity nerd My "productivity" phase started at the start of college and since then it has a been tapering down every month/year and I don't complain at all. I wish I did something else (I mean not even related to my studies or field..anything else) when I was actually exploring the shiny wide world of productivity porn. No, it didn't enrich me in anyway. And I've seen so many seniors (at various levels of seniority over the years) who had stopped giving two hoots about tools or productivity tools in its entirety. It's like you have to reach city A from city B and few people just hop on the car available to them or public transport (this one not in USA) whenever they are ready to leave. But a lot of people go down the rabbit hole of best cars, best fuels, best routes (and then they obsess over their favourite coffee chains along the way), and get in fights with other people on car and other forums in the planning. By the time they could agree on their cars, the other folks who had just gone, had finished their works there, and even took an extra day or two to sightsee and shit like that and they might have even forgotten about that because it was weeks and months ago. This is not too much of far fetching. This is actually quite important in early career states and habit and ideas set in during that time. What has rather worked for me far more/better is a good place to work, environment, lighting, ambience, noise, temperature, material physical comforts available, maybe a bit of easy variation (as needed; not as forced upon) et cetera. But I think these things work differently for different people (and at different ages). |