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If you're not sleep deprived you need to check your privilege.
by dilemma 10y ago
If you're not sleep deprived you need to check your privilege.
- venomsnake 10y agoOne of the great bonuses of working from home. You will be surprised how easy it is to get your 8 hours if you don't commute.
- saiya-jin 10y agodepends on commute - my 15 mins don't mean anything, and once i leave work, all mental processes related to work topics go into hibernation till next morning. not so easy when I was working from home
- stinkytaco 10y agoI live pretty close to where I work, probably 20 minutes on foot. This is great for many reasons, but I also work in a public place (a library) and might have personal reasons to go there on days I'm not working. I do not do this because I just can't bring myself to hang out where I work. It's not that my coworkers are not respectful it's just that I don't want to. Working from home was like being at work all the time. It started to wear on me. Now that I'm more mature I might be able to handle it, but at the time I just couldn't sustain.
- elorant 10y agoThe problem with working from home is that it's very easy to procrastinate or just jerk off with the gazillion of things that attract your attention.
- venomsnake 10y agoAnd how being in an office prevents that?
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- oarsinsync 10y agoHappens quite easily at the office too, with all the table tennis, foosball, free food and drink and regular meetings. Heck I'm doing it right now with just a web browser sat at my desk...
- DiabloD3 10y agoYou know, it's weird, but for me, not having the buzz of other people around me all the time makes it easy for me to concentrate.... as long as I stay off HN, Reddit, and Imgur. Seriously, HN is a gigantic delicious timesink that has probably cost all of us collectively millions.
- paulojreis 10y ago> Seriously, HN is a gigantic delicious timesink that has probably cost all of us collectively millions. It's possible, but what you get back from HN is also enormous; from jobs to interactions with very smart people. I mean, Alan Kay was involved in discussions here, just yesterday!
- kranner 10y agoIn other words, an opportunity to understand why you procrastinate and build good working habits.
- tehrei 10y agoUnless you work in some draconian monarchy where you're constantly monitored, you can jerk off at the office, too.
- thinkt4nk 10y agoRight. It can't possibly have anything to do with discipline.
- afarrell 10y agoOr being part of a culture where "sleep is for the weak". Certainly folks at the bottom of the economic ladder are sleep deprived due to needing to work multiple jobs and take care of kids. But there are a lot of high-status communities that put a positive value on sleep deprivation. I hear from multiple sources that this is true in medicine. I know from experience that this is true at MIT. Those cultures need to change. There is no good reason for an introductory computer architecture class to make its assignments due at 6am.
- tbrownaw 10y agoThere is no good reason for an introductory computer architecture class to make its assignments due at 6am "It needs to be turned in by the earliest time I might feel like starting work in the morning."
- afarrell 10y agoThe assignments were auto-graded
- majewsky 10y agoWhen I was an undergraduate TA in Computational Physics, we had a deadline of Monday 8am, which arised from a technicality: At Monday 8am, a cron job would download the submissions from the designated mailbox, and print them, so that we could pick them up for grading when we came into the office that morning. You're absolutely right though. It would be more sensible to have the cronjob run at Sunday 8pm instead, given that nobody is in the office until Monday morning anyway.
- dominotw 10y agonot having kids is a privilege i suppose.
- damptowel 10y agoIf you're sleep deprived you need to check the privileges around you. :)