{"id":257758,"date":"2020-07-28T07:57:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T14:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=257758"},"modified":"2020-07-28T08:38:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T15:38:43","slug":"pragmatic-productivity-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/28\/pragmatic-productivity-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Pragmatic Productivity Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Some basic productivity principles and ideas which have helped me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

  1. Intermittent fasting<\/strong><\/a>: No breakfast or lunch<\/a>, more productivity during the day. Break your fast<\/a> with one massive dinner<\/a> (8pm) with tons of meat<\/a>.<\/li>
  2. For working out<\/strong>, walk to the local park<\/a>. Fresh air and open spaces and lots of green … re-charges your brain. Apparently extra oxygen to your brain and body? All the micro-pollen in the air is good for our physiology. Also all the green calms our mind (green as the ultimate calming color). Also do some quick park workouts<\/a> (doesn’t need to take more than 10-15 minutes) then peace out.<\/li>
  3. Standing desk<\/strong>: Good for your legs. Also the more you work while standing, the more productive you will be. My theory — more intelligence in our legs<\/a> than our ‘brain’.<\/li>
  4. No alcohol or weed<\/a><\/strong>. The ultimate productivity killer. Alcohol and weed as substances are fine, but the only problem … even a little alcohol might cause you a small hangover or disrupted sleep patterns, which means worse productivity for you the NEXT DAY<\/em>. I also think being dependent on smoking weed or using a bong or whatever to fall asleep is bad. <\/li>
  5. Create your own email server. Don’t use Gmail. My theory:
    1. Gmail is low-key engineered to be addictive, in order for you to forever live on Gmail and Google products.<\/li>
    2. Better to instead, create your own website, server, and self-host your own email. More of a pain in the ass, but better longevity. For example make your email: firstname@firstnamelastname.com<\/li><\/ol><\/li>
    3. Don’t use Chrome, use Safari<\/a><\/strong>. Chrome at this point is just a more efficient mechanism for Google to serve you more advertisements. Advertisements are fine from a moral-ethical perspective, but the problem is that ads are the ultimate productivity killer<\/a><\/strong>. <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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