>What if I don't want to improve my productivity ?
I think you're reacting to the word "productivity" because it has negative connotations to some readers.
To others, "productivity" has neutral to positive connotations.
I think we all universally desire "less effort for more output" across work and leisure activities. We just don't like to label it "productivity". (I made previous comment.[0])
E.g. if a gardener wants to plant a row of flowers for pleasure, she might put all 10 flower pots into a wagon and then drag the wagon to the final location. This is more productive than hand carrying only 1 flower pot at a time and walking back & forth 10 times. People inherently like to be "productive" even for play and leisure!
>Why should we force ourselves to organize our days to improve our coding time ? We should organize our life to improve our reading, playing, resting time.
I think you're being uncharitable in interpreting the blog essay. The scope of his tips is about being productive while in the office. (Ctrl+F search article for "office".) Therefore, finding bugs faster between 9-to-5 isn't going to detract from "playing" time on the weekend. In fact, it may even let the programmer leave earlier on Friday.
>Except for that part where they were spending free time watching play-by-plays of their own work.
About that, I only notice the article says this:
- "At the end of the week, I’ll watch a few segments from the previous week. "
I don't see why "end of the week" must be interpreted to mean "free time" instead of "end of the day on Friday before I go home for the weekend."
It still seems like some of us are determined to find reasons to dismiss the essay as detrimental advice because he used the word "productivity" as opposed to just charitably engaging the underlying concept of productivity as a universal positive.
I think you're reacting to the word "productivity" because it has negative connotations to some readers.
To others, "productivity" has neutral to positive connotations.
I think we all universally desire "less effort for more output" across work and leisure activities. We just don't like to label it "productivity". (I made previous comment.[0])
E.g. if a gardener wants to plant a row of flowers for pleasure, she might put all 10 flower pots into a wagon and then drag the wagon to the final location. This is more productive than hand carrying only 1 flower pot at a time and walking back & forth 10 times. People inherently like to be "productive" even for play and leisure!
>Why should we force ourselves to organize our days to improve our coding time ? We should organize our life to improve our reading, playing, resting time.
I think you're being uncharitable in interpreting the blog essay. The scope of his tips is about being productive while in the office. (Ctrl+F search article for "office".) Therefore, finding bugs faster between 9-to-5 isn't going to detract from "playing" time on the weekend. In fact, it may even let the programmer leave earlier on Friday.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19592404