This is about babies, but I think it's interesting how topics somehow relating to productivity and productive envrionements environments usually circle back to

This is about babies, but I think it's interesting how topics somehow relating to productivity and productive envrionements environments usually circle back too complaining about office layouts and culture. Open plan. Naps. Working hours. While it's obviously true that workplaces dictate a lot about how we work. It's also conveniently out of our control. Somebody else's responsibility and fault. If you are power napping 3 days a day, trying standing desks, aggressively experimenting with diet and exercise ideas and otherwise pursuing productivity with cutting edge quirkiness I would sympathies. But, formats people registering the complaint it's the easy somebody-should-do-something. Also : Already someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly. - http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html While pg was actually talking about recent trends making eccentricity a necessity (or really a side effect) of doing things "right," I think it's just an old thing becoming relevant to a new area (avoiding addiction). People genuinely pushing for maximal productivity, creativity and such have always been quirky. "I CAN't WORK HERE" screams the painter. Snappy frustrated geniuses with quirky demands, writers insisting on isolation, a bedsit, drugs, carefully timed and controlled naps. Maximizing is quirky. It's also individual. The benefits of maximizing health, productivity, creativity, or other things can be incredible so the people who do it insist that it's the obviously rational choice. But eccentricity is by definition something we are usually averse to. I hope this comment doesn't read negatively. I am entirely in favor of people wanting to implement some of these things in their life. But, find wheyier you can implement it. Don't waste time lamenting that the world (or your workplace) isn't like that. Accept quirkiness as the price.