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I recommend FocusMate. You are forced to work by the social pressure of having someone else on the other end work alongside you.

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Thanks for mentioning FocusMate! I used it many years ago, but had since forgotten it's name. No amount of googling found it.

Aside: this is exactly the kind of query that ChatGPT is so good at. If you haven’t tried “I’m trying to remember the name of this thing…” please could you see if it works?

What do you mean by social pressure ?

Your search term is 'body-doubling', where you feel like a slacker if someone is watching you not hustle while they hustle.

Ah just like peer pressure? I've seen that also in sports where you have a virtual co-runner you try to keep to up with.

It doesn't work for me though because I'm really independent and totally not competitive. I just don't care about my peers. I hate team sports also for this case because I'll always get kicked out for not caring about the team's goals.

It's a bit difficult sometimes because all companies think they only need 'team players'. I can be extremely loyal to people I care about but I need to build up that care naturally, them being part of some arbitrary 'team' doesn't work for me. Hard to explain :)

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