sonya@zfnd.org, me@sonyaellenmann.com 
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Tbh, I have a hard time distinguishing "you are genuinely wasting time that you could use better" from "you're doing the requisite fucking-around that allows you to recharge and work well later."
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"The majority of my output happened in a tiny portion of my overall hours, despite my sincere desire to be as productive as possible throughout the entire day." DING DING DING same, I still struggle with shame about this. http://devonzuegel.com/post/productivity-is-like-a-heat-engine … @devonzuegel
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I’m yet to see a company culture which embraces the idea that you might have -say- a mere 3 daily productive hours in you.
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I think you *need* the other time in order to be productive in the 3 or whatever hours. Whether that time needs to be at the office though, idk
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I have always hated work environments where I had to "look busy"
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fuckin hard-ass same, my whole career is '38 hours fucking around on the internet, 2 hours pulling giant, glorious rabbits out of hats'
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my business model is to carefully prevent my employer from knowing how fast I can actually do things, so that the four hours I spent doing nothing more than "run that one script again, with different parameters" look productive
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oh, i know this feel pretty well, yeah
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i have spent ages freaking out about this, since i have been in startups where people are really good at looking like they are always working
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It's better to make those hours hyper efficient so you have more time to play around, imo.
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Usually before anyone else came in, or after everyone went home.
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