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> There are four types of walks to consider implementing in your routines

Ugh, can these growth hacking types stop trying to make everything into a "thing"? Can one just go out for a bloody walk without someone saying they need to make the best out of it, and to use it for spiritual and career growth. Just go out to pump some fresh blood and air in your body. There's no unproductive way of walking, for god's sake.

Also:

> University of Hong Kong researchers showed that walking side-by-side led to deeper feelings of connection, implying that walking meetings may actually create better outcomes.

Soon at your BigCo walking meetings for you to bond emotionally with your boss. We found it improves employee retention and reduces turnover rates.

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> There are four types of walks to consider implementing in your routines

I was thinking ministry of silly walks and how many of those to implement in my routines.

>Ugh, can these growth hacking types stop trying to make everything into a "thing"? Can one just go out for a bloody walk without someone saying they need to make the best out of it, and to use it for spiritual and career growth.

No, many people can't just go for a walk as evident by the fact that they don't. Laying out the benefits can help convince some people to walk that currently don't. Just because articles like this aren't useful for you it doesn't mean there aren't useful for others.

I think you missed the OP's point. This is precisely not about "being useful to you" or "useless to someone else". The point is that not everything has to be useful, and that it is ridiculous to have to have to find some economic (in the broad, neoliberal sense) incentive to do this or that. Just do things for the sake of doing them (or not doing them), not as part of a strategy.

It is a universally accepted fact that physical exercise is good for you, and a lot of people enjoy it. If you don't exercise, it's either because you don't have the time to do it or you can't be bothered (or a bit of both). If you do have the time, then just go for a walk and stop finding excuses not to. I'd rather see people not go for a walk because they can't be bothered than convince them to do it because it'll make them more productive, better adapted to the job market, improve their "human capital", or whatever ridiculous reason "life hackers" come up with.

You yourself jump from

>The point is that not everything has to be useful

to framing it in terms of its usefulness

>physical exercise is good for you

You might enjoy: Four thousand weeks: time management for mortals.

Got it from another comment on HN. It's really good down to earth, not everything has to be a thing, stuff.

Ugh, can these growth hacking types stop trying to make everything into a "thing"?

How else are they going to increase their social media engagement numbers?!

Coming soon will be someone who names walking side by side as a thing and writes an overly long paper/blog/book about how it solves every conceivable problem. I'll jump ahead and guess something like 'pair walking' or maybe 'linked striding'

I think realistically walking meeting outcomes would be worse. At least in my case, walking around outside switches me into survival mode. Raised heart rate and adrenaline. I learned this during covid when I was doing laps around the local park on a zoom meeting.

But yeah you don't need a reason or a framework in which to operate in. Just walk out of the bloody door.

Well, it has to fit into culture. Walking in forest is part of my work (software design). But to make it billable, I need all that BS...

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