Re:Power naps, power snack, power training: power everything
by artificialidiot on Thursday September 19, 2013 @12:38PM
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I see there is a market for a power bulshitting app which for every time you spew some, I get a dime so you can keep an eye on yourself.
Cramming your life between fleeting moments during work is not healthy however you quantify it. 7/24 working mentality is not a virtue. Only reason I see for advocating such bullshit is if you have a vested interest for hiring lifeless worker drones or in business of giving unwarranted life advice, incidentially which I excel at too.
Please, please, please, don't kill yourself before you had a chance to live. The junk in your pocket neither should decide how you will live your life nor could reward you. What can it give you? XP points so you level up?
Re:Power naps, power snack, power training: power everything
by onli on Thursday September 19, 2013 @12:42PM
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This may not be reddit. But you got a point: It is really irritating that this post with this title is seemingly written with a straight face.
On the one hand, there is the burnout discussion regarding managers, and on here of course especially also regarding IT-people and founders. On the other hand, there is a semi-corporate culture treating things like tiredness, exercise and food as something one has to conquer with willpower and buzzwords from quantified self and power everything. Something one has to put a lot of energy into to do properly, all with the aim to be even more productive.
As if it was impossible to simply take the time to eat properly, at least once a day, with your colleagues. Or get home early enough to be able to exercise twice a week. Or don't work night and day so one gets enough sleep.
Cramming your life between fleeting moments during work is not healthy however you quantify it. 7/24 working mentality is not a virtue. Only reason I see for advocating such bullshit is if you have a vested interest for hiring lifeless worker drones or in business of giving unwarranted life advice, incidentially which I excel at too.
Please, please, please, don't kill yourself before you had a chance to live. The junk in your pocket neither should decide how you will live your life nor could reward you. What can it give you? XP points so you level up?
I wonder if he will write a blog on them.
On the one hand, there is the burnout discussion regarding managers, and on here of course especially also regarding IT-people and founders. On the other hand, there is a semi-corporate culture treating things like tiredness, exercise and food as something one has to conquer with willpower and buzzwords from quantified self and power everything. Something one has to put a lot of energy into to do properly, all with the aim to be even more productive.
As if it was impossible to simply take the time to eat properly, at least once a day, with your colleagues. Or get home early enough to be able to exercise twice a week. Or don't work night and day so one gets enough sleep.