Jonathan Blow on productivity, burnouts and ambition
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- čas přidán 7. 01. 2021
- During the first part of his live on Half-Life Alyx, game designer Jonathan Blow talks about productivity, how to handle emotions at work and other interesting topics.
In this clip, Jonathan talks about the meditation techniques he developed, which you can find here : • Techniques for dealing... - Věda a technologie
In this clip, Jonathan evokes his own meditation techniques. He talks about them on his channel: czcams.com/video/i7kh8pNRWOo/video.html
heard a quote about ultramarathons "you run the first 50 miles with your body, and the last 50 miles with your mind"
“I probably average around 25 or 30%”
OH THANK GOD
When he said most people do about 10%, I thought "480 minutes in an 8 hour day means 48 minutes of productivity" and it sounded about right...
2:00 - I've noticed this sort of issue a few times in my career, but really been thinking about it a lot lately. I can get a LOT done when I'm able to completely avoid responsibility for a week. It seems like momentum has a sort of exponential relationship with the activity of programming. If you can just not worry about bills, family, health, etc. for a week, you're able to just hold so much information in your head it's insane. Eventually though, you realize you fucked something up in your personal life and the stress of that snaps you out of it. I almost wish I could do some programming inside of a monastery for like a year or something.
This is my opinion exactly. I want to abandon life and just program all day xD
In December 2020 I spent 2 weeks writing a 'game', in C. A language I basically don't know, using a framework I also didn't know, Allegro 5. I wrote ~10,000 lines. Worked 12-hour days. Almost nothing else mattered. It was awesome.
I relate to this 100%, to the degree that when I find myself in this state I have to step back and ask myself, "Am I doing this because I really am this excited about the project I'm working on? Or am I using it as an escape mechanism to try and avoid something else going on in my life?" I think being in that "110%" mode is dangerous, because it is easy to justify "look at how productive I'm being." Its much more benign than drinking heavily or other methods of escapism, but it can be a symptom of the same kind of discontent that leads people to more obviously negative behavior.
Can relate to this so much as well. Have periods where I feel unstoppable, even when not necessarily isolated but at minimum without distractions / interactions. I'd pay a lot to have those periods consistently.
thank you for uploading this. jonathan blow streams are so underrated
my pleasure to share too. i agree 100%, i'm only a hobbyist programmer but his takes are always perspicacious and interesting.
17:00 is exactly how I learned, and exactly the same advice I've given to classes before with great results. A lot of beginners rightfully don't understand How to learn and think they can read a language's documentation front to back in one huge slog, then just get started. This probably stems from classical education's "shut up and listen" mindset, so yeah he's right, get practical from day 1
Great advice!
Just go full screen when you're talking Jon. I want to see your beautiful face
yeah sorry he was playing Half-Life Alyx and ended his session and it stayed like this until the end lol
I want to see that relatable hairline
if he is at 30 percent productivity then i am probably 5 percent or even less
It's relative to the individual. His 40% might be my 100% but that's not the point.
The questions and answers are really good in this video but it would be sooo much better if it had timestamps
Aw man, I feel like that ended abruptly
I want to see a compilation video of Johnathan pausing to consume his drinks
I love programming and creating my own things but my job working on things I don't align on is a serious recipe for burnout.
Burnout 6:25 and 28:46
Not gonna lie. I started crying at 6:30
Heck dude, you got this.
Is the video he is talking about at 12:15 the one in the description ?
14:00 Man I wish he'd be more specific here, is he talking about Freudian psychotherapy? Carl Rogers' counseling? CBT? Hypnotherapy??
This feels like he's heard some weird specific school of thought, wish I knew what lmao
Sorry if this was unclear, John talks about his own meditation techniques, you can find his video on it here: czcams.com/video/i7kh8pNRWOo/video.html
Is this a twitch thing?
im totally downloading this. between work i like to play 1 match of overwatch and i feel refreshed like its my dopamine idk tho might be for something else
this guys brain is literally like mine wtfff i do super specific project based learning too
Is he saying that he can systematically deconstruct the motivation behind the mood he is suffering from and understand why he feels the way he is feeling and address that rather than endure the mood by just wallowing in it or complaining about how depressed he feels without seeking any remedy through introspective meditation and self knowledge of your psyche and maladaptive personality disorders?
Study the mood?
yes that's what i understood too. but its deconstruction through paying close attention - not by reasoning.
@@DanDanOreo Thanks for the clarification.
Feel like Jon is mistaking the service a psychologist provides compared to a psychiatrist. A clinical psychologist do provide solutions that comes from study into the root causes of neurological trauma and pathologies and how that affects cognitive and behavioral functions--which may even include recommendation to try meditation if applicable. Just want to provide more context in case this segment is pertinent to some viewers.
I should say that any Buddhist meditating school (or idk how to name this properly) touches a very ground of psychic and pushes a very strong wave of awareness from nothing to purest states of mind. With this wave that contains philosophy and practices you can heal and even build yourself as you want(and know what you actually want ofc).
Clinical psychologists knowledge and system is based on Aristotle philosophy and Freud and Jung assumptions which is literally childish compared to what East can offer to you.
Fun fact - every psychologist teaches almost everyone to meditate. Meditations come from India and been there for almost 10k years(7k atleast). It IS a symbol of ancient Indian psychology systems.
If anyone wants a good meditation teaching lookup Isha kriya or anything from Sahdguru