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Would you like to actually engage with the content of the article? Edit: my snark was unwarranted, as commenters helped me realize. Apologies.

by vga805 6y ago

tbalsam 6y ago
He is.
goodmachine 6y ago
Would you actually like to engage with the content of the comment? Rated: informative
- 4eor0 6y ago
  Right, because social media points can’t be gamed.
wpietri 6y ago
Why would one engage with the content of an article from a vendor one thinks produces self-serving garbage? That's not to say that's what the article is, just to be clear. But given our incredibly finite amount of time alive, I think it's important to have good filtering heuristics on how one spends one's time. As an example, people who criticize Qanon as bonkers often get asked to just watch a few (long) Q-fan videos. If somebody asked me to do that, I'd say no. I have an infinite number of better ways to spend my time. All of that goes in my "garbage content" bucket. I know all I care to from the reports of others who have dug around in the bucket. If you'd like to convince somebody they've mis-bucketed something, I think a better approach is to say exactly what you see as redeeming about the content of the article.
pyrophane 6y ago
Sure: * Give up clutter. Here they make some vague statements about clutter causing chronic stress and then talk about "Marie Condo" (actually, its Marie Kondo). They don't cite any real research to back up their statements about clutter and stress. Here's an article suggesting a correlation between cluttered workspaces and innovation: https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/a-messy-desk-is-a-sign-of-genius-according-to-scie.html https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/a-messy-desk-is-a-sign-of.... That is the only one of these points I really take issue with. Rather, I'm just saying that all these other points are pretty well published on just about every other self-help or productivity blog to have ever existed, and this article is just repackaging them without adding anything, which is what I'm saying is the problem with Thrive Global in general.

Would you like to actually engage with the content of the article? Edit: my snark was unwarranted, as commenters helped me realize. Apologies.

by vga805 6y ago

Would you like to actually engage with the content of the article? Edit: my snark was unwarranted, as commenters helped me realize. Apologies.

tbalsam 6y ago

He is.

goodmachine 6y ago

Would you actually like to engage with the content of the comment? Rated: informative

4eor0 6y ago
Right, because social media points can’t be gamed.

wpietri 6y ago

Why would one engage with the content of an article from a vendor one thinks produces self-serving garbage? That's not to say that's what the article is, just to be clear. But given our incredibly finite amount of time alive, I think it's important to have good filtering heuristics on how one spends one's time. As an example, people who criticize Qanon as bonkers often get asked to just watch a few (long) Q-fan videos. If somebody asked me to do that, I'd say no. I have an infinite number of better ways to spend my time. All of that goes in my "garbage content" bucket. I know all I care to from the reports of others who have dug around in the bucket. If you'd like to convince somebody they've mis-bucketed something, I think a better approach is to say exactly what you see as redeeming about the content of the article.

pyrophane 6y ago

Sure: * Give up clutter. Here they make some vague statements about clutter causing chronic stress and then talk about "Marie Condo" (actually, its Marie Kondo). They don't cite any real research to back up their statements about clutter and stress. Here's an article suggesting a correlation between cluttered workspaces and innovation: https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/a-messy-desk-is-a-sign-of-genius-according-to-scie.html https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/a-messy-desk-is-a-sign-of.... That is the only one of these points I really take issue with. Rather, I'm just saying that all these other points are pretty well published on just about every other self-help or productivity blog to have ever existed, and this article is just repackaging them without adding anything, which is what I'm saying is the problem with Thrive Global in general.