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Book Of Hook
Personal blog · bookofhook.blogspot.comgamesproductivity
Book Of Hook is a personal blog at bookofhook.blogspot.com about games and productivity. Since 2012, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls (2013)”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for 'Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls', a post about work habits and productivity that a commenter ties to John Carmack. Other linked posts cover focus and productivity.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls (2013)17 people · 18 mentions · first linked 2013-03-15
- Productivity vs. Uncertainty and Apathy3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-09-12
What Hacker News says?
That sounds vaguely similar to what John Carmack allegedly used to do: http://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2013/03/smart-guy-productivit...
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on “Write Code Every Day”Submitted Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls (2013) as a story · 319 points
HN discussion"Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls" ( http://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2013/03/smart-guy-productivit... ) were useful to me and techniques related to "no zero days" and just getting started (with a single sentence, slide, line of code) are virtually the only things that consistently work for me. These techniques are nicely summarized in "Micro-Progress and the Magic of Just Getting Started" https://mobile.nytimes.com/20…
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on “Ask HN: Is it 'normal' to struggle so hard with work?”Submitted Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls as a story · 288 points
HN discussionhttp://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2013/03/smart-guy-productivit... Made me realise smartwork is bs. If you want to boost productivity, increase your focus span. There's no other hack.
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on “Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?”Submitted Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls – 2013 as a story · 14 points
HN discussionThere's an old blog post that I really liked on John Carmack's work ethic http://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2013/03/smart-guy-productivit... from someone who worked with Carmack.
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on “John Carmack on avoiding distractions”Submitted Suffer No Jankiness (2012) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt also requires strong intelligence, mental processing speed, vocabulary and frankly just giving a damn about not only the subject but clearly articulating it to the audience. After I read "Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls"¹ it became apparent to me that John he has quite an acute awareness of life's smaller details. Too many people care too little about a lot of things. There seems to be a common perception that a…
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on “Keynote by John Carmack at Oculus Connect 2014 [video]”Submitted Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOne source for his legendary productivity: http://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2013/03/smart-guy-productivit...
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on “John Carmack: Career Advice”Submitted Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls(2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGreat article on this, advocating for 40+ hours a week of real work: http://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2013/03/smart-guy-productivit...
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on “Is 40 hours a week too much?”Submitted Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI found https://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2012/09/productivity-vs-unce... useful.
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on “Resistance to Being Productive”Submitted Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFrom Brian Hook[0], who worked with John Carmack at id Software: > I remember Carmack talking about productivity measurement. While working he would play a CD, and if he was not being productive, he'd pause the CD player. This meant any time someone came into his office to ask him a question or he checked email he'd pause the CD player. He'd then measure his output for the day by how many times he played the CD (or…
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on “Java Development on an Apple M1 – A One Year Review”Submitted Productivity vs. Uncertainty and Apathy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI have the same problem and some of the techniques might help you: http://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2013/03/smart-guy-productivit... (But my biggest problem is getting work done when I'm not interested in it anymore).
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on “Ask HN: Staying focused on your project”Submitted This Advice is Worthless (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionReference to the JC story pasted below. My thought after reading the story: man JC is hardcore, I wish I had half of his productivity. I'll probably persuade my wife to give me a full day to go to a motel (JC also does this frequently) to do the same test and see how my productivity lines up against his. http://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2013/03/smart-guy-productivit...
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on “Ask HN: How do you track your work hours?”Submitted (2013) Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou might find this interesting, from a guy that worked with John Carmack. http://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2013/03/smart-guy-productivit...
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on “How to find time to learn after work (2017)”Submitted Programming Uncertainty as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSmart Guy Productivity Pitfalls - http://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2013/03/smart-guy-productivit...
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on “Ask HN: Do you hate software engineering but love programming?”Submitted Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Productivity vs. Uncertainty & Apathy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Productivity, Uncertainty and Apathy as a story · 1 points
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