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But the more creative and thinky the work gets the shortest the streak length. At median educated information worker levels today it’s probably 5 days. More than that you’re just fooling yourself that you’re being effective.
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There are a few actual outliers who can sustain a higher duty cycle with longer streaks without losing effectiveness but most are just kidding themselves or larping “hustle”
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There are workaholic execs who do put in 14x7 days still, but I think they function by arranging environments to efficiently use their time well even when they’re basically operating with an IQ of 80.
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It’s not hard to log hard hours if 80% of the time all you’re going is sitting and intimidating people into effectiveness by your sheer presence, letting other people do the thinking/talking, and simply adding +1s to some suggestions reactions. It’s a very small shell script.
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Anytime you see an exec with a very quiet style you can be sure they’re running in this low-energy leveraged mode, just moving their klout around the room.
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All they need to do is use moments of 100+ IQ lucidity to ask the occassional perspicacious question and everybody will conclude they’re a mysterious genius. Straussian Great Man Oz effect.
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I’ve gone from amused/apathetic to deep work, to actively hostile to the idea. It’s a performative part of hustle theater. Nobody using the phrase “deep work” appears to have actually done work comparable to what they claim to aspire to.
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Ditto Waldenponding. “Social media detox,” etc etc. Yeah, just the “good cop” side of performative hustle theater. Social media addiction isn’t the problem, your solution isn’t a solution. Just an aestheticized, intellectualized version of “a bad work an blames his tools”
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This sounds harsh, but a lot of bullshit analysis and theatrical intervention into misframed non-problems is just ordinary, mediocre people refusing to question the conceit that the only thing standing between them and Greatness is some environmental factor.
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You solve problems very differently if you actually think you’re pretty ordinary and average in most ways, as opposed to thinking you’re special and merely being humble and self-deprecating.
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A solution to a problem found by someone who actually thinks they’re average and ordinary tends to look less generalizable than it is. A bunch of janky-looking life hacks that look specific to the peculiar circumstances of their life. But you can usually borrow a trick or two.
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