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INFO: did you make them sit on that hard wooden chair for eight hours and watch you recline in your aeron?

But seriously: are your graphs showing 21 productive hours a week? That’s like four a day? What _are_ you doing the rest of the time?

As someone else said: therapy would be an incredible productivity investment. Sharpen the saw. Babysitters are a hack for the symptoms, it’s long term more efficient to attack the cause.

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I can see therapy working well for someone who has unprocessed trauma or depression, but I have ADHD, and my ADHD specialist has told me that the medicine part is for the symptoms, and the future therapy part of the treatment is for unlearning coping mechanisms that I may have developed to work around my ADHD symptoms, that I would no longer need due to the medicine doing its job. I'm not sure what they would be exactly, but I don't see how they would be holding back my productivity that much.

P.S. most people don't have unprocessed trauma or depression to a clinically significant extent. If you think they do, you are living in a bubble (of melodramatic people perhaps? of therapists?)

I think his employer at Meta would be furious right now for letting this guy jerk off for 4 hours every day when he was supposed to be going fast and be breaking things.

Facebook doesn't go fast and break things anymore - that's a decade old logo, it's outdated.

4 hours looks OK to me, even good if we are critical about productive VS non productive time.

Answering questions in slack, checking emails, going to meetings, waiting for ci/cd: all chew up your productive time.

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