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Re:The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Le... by mlthoughts2018 on Saturday May 26, 2018 @05:42PM (#17164405)
Your reply made me chuckle and you are right.

For me personally, I derive a lot of self-identity from my own productivity, and end up caring about my work and treating it like a craft.

I wish I could turn this off and just accept better paying jobs that embed me in a distraction-filled room where nobody really cares about my productivity so long as I superficially appear to try hard and evangelize the company line.

But I just can't. I am too intrinsically quixotic. For me, and the I guess dying breed of people like me, the side effect of the VC behavior you mention is like death by a thousand cuts.

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Re:The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Le... by mmt on Saturday May 26, 2018 @07:06PM (#17164658)
I'm not sure we're so much a dying breed as that we were always a small minority to begin with.

We just have to hold out hope for the even rarer manager that recognizes such objective value and can transform it into subjective value to sell up the chain.

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