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Cameron Armstrong

gm I genuinely want to know your answer to this: What was the most productive period of your life so far? What was sustainable about it? What wasn’t?

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My most productive period in terms of tangible stuff (if I’m being brutally honest about it) was 18 months ago when I made myself write 30 essays in 30 days I think the rhythm made me do everything else better But sometimes it took up my entire day - which doesn’t work w a startup Tryna find more rhythm now 😩

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I used to be a machine working for weeks at a time until 3AM on briefs or deposition / trial prep That was 'productive' in the classical sense even though much of the work was never used and the cases often went nowhere 😕 I'm more 'productive' with my time now in terms of output but at a career crossroads 🙃

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A rough patch in ‘11/‘12 working the front desk at a hotel on 3rd shift. I basically got paid to read and think. I reflect on that window as one of my most sustained runs of creativity ie writing poems, synthesizing ideas, unlearning, tilling the mindscape, etc. Wasn’t sustainable, but something was in alignment.

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4 months after my company's co-founder (who was my dear friend) died and I had to reorganize the company. Worked 14-16h/day, 6-7 days a week. Did a ton but felt mentally fried for quite a long time.

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My most productive time was when I moved away from my hometown because it gave me the space to think clearly. What I thought would have taken me 10 years to even get started was cut down to having to start now, so I saved a lot of time in not having to take detours.

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Routine and with only a day a week being social. I have a hard time saying no to hanging out with friends lol. But I’m most productive when I’m not spending more than 1 day a week being social.

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I had a two year stint of starting/finishing roughly 1 song per week while working two restaurant jobs and trying to finish a screenplay. I found high alcohol consumption + lack of sleep to be dangerously productive. Apparently after repeated lack of REM sleep your dreams start to spill out into waking life. Would rec

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My most productive time(s) were seasons where the overall task was more defined--I knew (specifically) what I was trying to achieve and basically how to achieve it. At least in terms of getting the most tangible work done. Other times, I think you measure productive differently b/c not everything is tangible.

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perhaps fall of 2018 when i had a solid routine and lots i had to get done. i'm convinced that waking up at 6:40 every day was the key i think i'm approaching one such period again. i'm slowly falling into a healthy routine and profesionally there's quite a lot going on. taking it slowly seems to make it work

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sept '21 i was working 14 hour days, taught myself javascript while making a chrome extension, not sustainable, had no responsibilities other than finding a job check it out, but please dont use bc its broken and i dont want to fix https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/niftycase/hejlafcmjjeplkkccjpmjioheejldjbf

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Before I had kids 😂 and I keep hearing that productivity comes back in about a decade

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Period just preceding then through the first 15 years of our kid’s life.

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January-March of this year as I saw the mountain of stuff to do and realized I'd be sleep deprived and less productive after my daughter was born in April. I think I wrote more code than I had in the previous year+.

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A few years ago I worked at a fast paced ventured startup for 14hrs/day 7 days/week and I along with the entire team got fired right before our equity cliff. Not sustainable, was miserable, no balance whatsoever.

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