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It's a nice article, but the title says, how to improve your productivity - and the article contains a whopping 120 occurrences, of "me, my(self) and I". It's r
by gombosg 7y ago
It's a nice article, but the title says, how to improve your productivity - and the article contains a whopping 120 occurrences, of "me, my(self) and I". It's really hard to read it and relate to it that way because it sounds like the bragging of an egocentric person instead of useful, actionable advice.
- cranium 7y agoI would disagree with you: the headings are the actionable advice. To paraphrase: - Eliminate distractions - Facilitate yourself getting in the flow - Optimize your schedule around your productivity peak - Record your screen to do a retrospect and see where you waste time - Daily and weekly retrospect - Don't implement too much at the same time The paragraphs below are just the author personal implementations, which will be egocentric by design.
- slotwa 7y agoHow did you find your productivity peak? By recording screen? I'm struggling to get to know when my peak is (and I'm a little afraid that I don't even have a peak at all)
- dang 7y ago"Your" is an unfortunate trope of internet titles. I think there's some hard-wiring that makes us respond to loud uses of "you": hey you! The simple fix is to replace second-person titles with first-person titles. I've done that above. Now we can discuss the more interesting things in the article.
- ChrisMarshallNY 7y agoI have an editing regimen for my articles. After the article is done, I search for occurrences of “you,” and generally replace them with “we,” “ours,” “I,” “me,” “mine,” etc. It’s not about bragging. It’s about removing the autocratic tone from the article. In my experience, folks don’t like being dictated to.