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1. Programming 2. I don't know if it's stopping the industry from growing, but existing communication tools (specifically chat, email) are a serious drain on a
by ioddly 9y ago
1. Programming
2. I don't know if it's stopping the industry from growing, but existing communication tools (specifically chat, email) are a serious drain on attention and productivity. See http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html.
3. I'm working on it. Might be better tooling, might be educating people on how harmful they can be.
- saimiam 9y agoI take a contrarian view on the perniciousness of chat, email, and social media. I'm yet to face a situation when I had to get something done but a chat conversation got so much in the way that I missed my deadline. Yes, I spend way too much time on frivolous internet activities but when stuff needs to get done, it gets done. No, I cannot use my time any differently to magically become more productive and build myself a side hustle or teach myself Sanskrit or whatever. Just because I now read a hundred success stories doesn't mean I have emulate and chase after adding to corpus of human growth and knowledge with blind focus. It's ok to work enough for a living and not impose artificial expectations of extreme productivity on myself.