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What would it look like if this wasn't a problem? More specific topics? More credibility?

king_magic 6y ago
Credibility would help. I don’t need career guidance from a glorified Instagram model, I’d like it from someone who knows what they are talking about.
- nefitty 6y ago
  I asked GPT-3, and this was the advice it returned after a conversation about my goals/feelings and with me prompting it with, “The life coach begins telling you about some ways to make progress on your goals.” “The life coach tells you to create a daily schedule and plan out your week, month, and year. He tells you that if you follow through on this plan, you should achieve something. He also tells you to meditate for at least 10 minutes a day and focus on your breath.”
  - Rapzid 6y ago
    GPT-3 is going to corner the market on drivel. RIP self-help industry.
keiferski 6y ago
A world in which everyone enjoys/is driven to complete meaningful work and doesn’t need to hype themselves up to get anything done. Presumably this was implicit cultural knowledge in the pre-modern era, as the self-help productivity genre is a recent phenomenon.
dalbasal 6y ago
It's more a matter of when (in the cycle) than what. Trends come in booms and busts. Late into the boom, they're usually most devoid of originality. Then they die back. ATM, "productivity hacks" are in the "butt rock" part of the cycle.
dawg- 6y ago
I think the whole thing is a problem. People opining on productivity are creating issues where there are none. And I say this as someone who has tried every productivity strategy under the sun. The only one I have found to work is to just do things until the work day is over. See a task, do a task. Think of something, do something. Get email, reply to email. You can call it inbox zero or eat the frog or Nike Just Do It or whatever other name you want to come up with. But I just do things. Productivity techniques are just structure that get in the way. It can be kind of addictive to design this perfect system for how you are going to organize your work and life - but nothing ever sticks. The only thing that sticks is to just do whatever is in front of you.

Credibility would help. I don’t need career guidance from a glorified Instagram model, I’d like it from someone who knows what they are talking about.

nefitty 6y ago
I asked GPT-3, and this was the advice it returned after a conversation about my goals/feelings and with me prompting it with, “The life coach begins telling you about some ways to make progress on your goals.” “The life coach tells you to create a daily schedule and plan out your week, month, and year. He tells you that if you follow through on this plan, you should achieve something. He also tells you to meditate for at least 10 minutes a day and focus on your breath.”
- Rapzid 6y ago
  GPT-3 is going to corner the market on drivel. RIP self-help industry.

keiferski 6y ago

A world in which everyone enjoys/is driven to complete meaningful work and doesn’t need to hype themselves up to get anything done. Presumably this was implicit cultural knowledge in the pre-modern era, as the self-help productivity genre is a recent phenomenon.

dalbasal 6y ago

It's more a matter of when (in the cycle) than what. Trends come in booms and busts. Late into the boom, they're usually most devoid of originality. Then they die back. ATM, "productivity hacks" are in the "butt rock" part of the cycle.

dawg- 6y ago

I think the whole thing is a problem. People opining on productivity are creating issues where there are none. And I say this as someone who has tried every productivity strategy under the sun. The only one I have found to work is to just do things until the work day is over. See a task, do a task. Think of something, do something. Get email, reply to email. You can call it inbox zero or eat the frog or Nike Just Do It or whatever other name you want to come up with. But I just do things. Productivity techniques are just structure that get in the way. It can be kind of addictive to design this perfect system for how you are going to organize your work and life - but nothing ever sticks. The only thing that sticks is to just do whatever is in front of you.