How to be more productive without forcing yourself
This seems like cheap advice that&#x27;s trying to get me to buy into a lifestyle in order to sell me things.<p>&quot;Have less exposure towards super fun things&quot;. &quot;Get bored&quot;. These describe the same general concept as dopamine fasting. The third bullet point can be reduced to &quot;focus on what you have to do, until you can focus on it&quot; which is circular.<p>I&#x27;m not buying in. Maybe I&#x27;m getting old but &quot;failure to start&quot; is starting to sound like a meme to me perpetuated by vultures trying to exploit creative personalities, hackers included.<p>I think what we need to do, is to step back and appreciate ourselves for the effort we continually expect from ourselves. As hackers in one way or another, we are constantly putting up our ego as collateral in order to take on challenges that threaten to knock us down a peg or two if we fail. For many of us, failure is a threat to the core of our identity, yet we dive on in anyway. Exhaustion from that sort of loop is to be expected.<p>Most people don&#x27;t live like this. Most people reduce the flux in their lives instead of seeking to increase it. Why? Because most people cherish their egos to the point where they cannot commit to a goal with an uncertain outcome. They would rather work a 9-5, which is fine, but it doesn&#x27;t describe our community. We are addicted to risk if it means building something new and that we can call our own.<p>So appreciate yourselves more.<p>And get better sleep.