#Productive

Somebody please remind me, I missed the last meeting and my mind is mixing up what we decided.

Was it guillotines for the billionaires, gallows for the politicians and administration? What did we choose for the Supreme Court again?

#commentary #PoliticalCommentary #meeting #productive #revolution #USPol

Knowledge Zonekzoneind@mstdn.social
2026-01-22

Do Faster-than-#Light #Particles Exist? : Medium

#Working More Doesn’t Make You More #Productive : Time

#Scientists #Discovered a Complex #MayaCity Buried Deep in the #Jungle : Pop Mechanics

Latest #KnowledgeLinks

knowledgezone.co.in/resources/

Michael Westergaardmichael@westergaard.social
2026-01-14
I've seen dozens of studies arguing that #AI makes them more or less #productive.

My #theory is that a #team where one person uses AI, while the person may (seem to) be more productive than without AI, the team as a whole is less productive. In fact, I think productivity goes down as the number of AI users goes up. Does anybody have concrete (non-anecdotal and unbiased) numbers for or against this?

To me, AI is that person browsing the H̵u̵b̵ Tube/news all day at work, but has a spreadsheet ready in case somebody walks by. They give the semblance of producing work and might even turn in some barely thought-thru #slop that needs heavy editing, but in reality force team-members to pick up the slack and fix their non-work.

My rationale is code reviews. I hate writing code reviews, but do them to improve our shared code and help the other (often junior) person improve. If I get code to review from a person, I do not check it in detail: I assume there is rationale behind it – even ask people to write down the rationale – and check the idea rather than every character of each line. I skim the tests and usually trust they can write documentation and frontends that match.

When I get a sloptacular commit straight from the s̵e̵w̵e̵r̵ #LLM, I need to check it much more thoroughly. I cannot trust that the documentation is true, because LLMs do not describe the idea or code (there is no idea and the code is mish-mash of security holes from StackOverflow), it writes what looks like documentation. Sometimes it's correct, sometimes it's not and bad documentation is worse than no documentation. But if I don't read it in excruciating detail, I won't know when it's either. After that, I need to do the same with the code. It'll look fine, but there's no underlying idea to check, and even if there were, the code is unlikely to reflect that. The same for the tests.

So, the slop-cowboy may have produced 1000 lines of code in half the time, but if it takes me 3 times as long to review, we're not #succeeding as a team. It's basically #Brandolini's law: it takes longer to review ultra-productive slop than it does to "write" it. Not only does that turn a junior job into a senior job, it makes that senior job much less enjoyable by amplifying the bad parts while – according to my theory – reducing productivity.
2026-01-13

Today, instead of doing exercises, I went to the #Budapest #Citypark (Városliget). You can climb on the top of the Museum of Ethnography 🤩 It has not just a beautiful view, but also makes sure that you have the #cardio necessary for more #productive work!

Sprocket Bicycle Marketplacesprocketapp
2026-01-03
Stephandurchaus
2025-12-31

My now encourages everyone to use as much assistance as possible. I'm using this as an opportunity to see how much more I can get. Interesting: AI coding assistants are great for low-risk throw-away scripts and supporting . For example, I created 3 Firefox plugins and 2 Python scripts in just an hour that gather and visualize information in a single click. Before, the wouldn't really have been worth it.

Perry Hamilton ✪perryhamilton
2025-12-10

The Interplay of Cognitive Function, Well-being, and Achievement: A Holistic View of the Mind

The human mind, in its staggering complexity, is the ultimate engine of personal and professional life. For centuries, philosophers and scientists have sought to understand the mechanisms that drive our thoughts, emotions, and actions.

hackmd.io/@amyallison/the-holi

The Holistic Interplay of Mind, Well-being, and Success
2025-11-24

It's always best to defer to #facts and logic.
The facts (and you can look this up) indicate, that, over decades, the countries with what Americans call " #DemocraticSocialist " policies are more #productive and have happier, healthier #economic majorities ( #workingclass , #disabled , #elderly , etc.) than in countries that don't.

Now, for my opinion: It's completely unpatriotic to buy into the "it can't work here" rhetoric. If #America is "exceptional," then we damn well can make it work here. #FDR did.

Steve Dustcircle 🌹dustcircle
2025-11-21
2025-11-19

#Wikipedia - Origin of the concept of a #SacrificeZone

"According to the United Nations Human Rights Council [#UNHRC], the term Sacrifice zone emerged in the #ColdWar period when #NuclearTesting, conducted by #colonial powers, such as the #UnitedStates, #France, the #UnitedKingdom, and the #SovietUnion transformed sections of land into #uninhabitable and highly #radioactive areas. Sacrifice zones can be defined as communities that experience dangerous levels of hazardous contamination and waste exposure. Sacrifice zones are linked to #racism, #oppression, #patriarchy, and #colonialism, as they are hubs of #pollution that disproportionately target and harm the physical and mental health of marginalized groups who face overlapping forms of #oppressions.

According to Helen Huntington Smith, the term was first used in the U.S. discussing the long-term effects of #StripMining #coal in the American West in the 1970s. The National Academy of Sciences/National Academy of Engineering Study Committee on the Potential for Rehabilitating Lands Surface Mined for Coal in the Western United States produced a 1973 report that introduced the term, finding:

In each zone the probability of rehabilitating an area depends upon the land use objectives, the characteristics of the site, the technology available, and the skill with which this technology is applied. At the extremes, if surface mined lands are declared national sacrifice areas, all ecological zones have a high probability of being successfully rehabilitated. If, however, complete restoration is the objective, rehabilitation in each zone has no probability of success.

Similarly in 1975, Genevieve Atwood wrote in Scientific American:

Surface mining without #reclamation removes the land forever from #productive use; such land can best be classified as a #NationalSacrifice area. With successful reclamation, however, surface mining can become just one of a series of land uses that merely interrupt a current use and then return the land to an equivalent potential productivity or an even higher one.

Huntington Smith wrote in 1975, "The Panel that issued the cautious and scholarly National Academy of Sciences report unwittingly touched off a verbal bombshell" with the phrase National Sacrifice Area; "The words exploded in the Western press overnight. Seized upon by a people who felt themselves being served up as 'national sacrifices', they became a watchword and a rallying cry." The term sparked public debate, including among #environmentalists and politicians such as future Colorado governor Richard Lamm.

The term continued to be used in the context of strip mining until at least 1999: '#WestVirginia has become an environmental sacrifice zone'."

#JoeManchin #BigOil #BigCoal #StripMining #EnvironmentalRacism #CoalMining #Appalachia #PollutionSacrificeZones #CorporateColonialism

2025-11-09

Why am I having such a difficult time focusing and being productive?!

It clearly aren't the tools I have, I have everything I could imagine at my fingertips.

Its the lack of focus and mental dullness I am experiencing..

#ADHD #AuDHD #Autism #Productive #Productivity #Failure #ImposterSyndrome

Bobber Brothersbobberbrothers
2025-11-01

We've discovered productivity that comes with solitude. No interruptions, no phone calls, just focused attention on what matters most. Night shift builds dreams.
Share this with your fellow midnight builder. They understand why 2 AM feels like prime time.
What hours are you most productive? Different minds work optimally at different times.

🎥 👉 @tobitobbe_48

Bobber Brothersbobberbrothers
2025-10-31

We all discover that perfect position where everything feels right - lighting, access, tool arrangement. These productive spaces can't be replicated, only discovered through experience.
Tag someone whose workspace setup inspires envy. Organization enables efficiency when done thoughtfully.
Where in your garage do you do your best work? Some locations just feel right for creation.

🎥 👉 @kero.bikes

Dr. Seltsam 🌎🎶🌳hipsauerkraut@vivaldi.net
2025-10-31

What is it that societies are going backwards, now it's all about being #productive
Let me this: #productivity my ass.

WordofTheHourwordofthehour
2025-10-27

: yielding or furnishing results

- French: productif

- German: produktiv

- Italian: produttivo

- Portuguese: produtivo

- Spanish: productivo

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Steve Dustcircle 🌹dustcircle
2025-10-27
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2025-10-10

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2025-10-01

me on a 90min call with my ex-colleagues, witnessing the "good energy" and "this was " statements, forcing me to do to catchup with my actual work. Did I say they thought was a total winner to support social & health services provision in the UK?
via Aaron Goldenberg.

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