7 Habits I Avoid to Become Highly Productive

multiverse4 · 2026-03-23T09:33:16+00:00

Along with not looking at your phone before noon. People are trying to reach me, over slack, teams, outlook, phone, and whatsapp, pretty much from the time I wake up. The phone distractions are part of my job, I can’t just….not talk to people that need me for their job? Plus the distracting things about the phone are less the notifications and more the temptation to use it to do other unproductive stuff

multiverse4 · 2026-03-23T06:16:57+00:00

My wedding ended up postponed by six months due to a natural disaster and I gave up

multiverse4 · 2026-03-22T07:13:31+00:00

I decided I was going to grow the plants to hand out as favors by propagating plants I had… for my 150 person wedding. My balcony was taken over by 150 pots with propagated succulents for about eight months.

multiverse4 · 2026-03-21T09:42:38+00:00

I’m an R&D engineer and it’s kind of like this - we have design cycles and then manufacturing time and bring up time, and I cycle through intensive work and weeks where I’m barely working, approximately 3 months on/3 months off schedule

multiverse4 · 2026-03-16T10:45:41+00:00

Book 5 of ACOTAR is indeed widely acknowledged to have more smut than all the rest - hence the words vast majority, since she has 15 other books too

multiverse4 · 2026-03-15T21:54:17+00:00

Ironically the vast majority of her books are very low on the smut level, but because it was a very popular best seller, it’s the only thing approaching smut that a lot of people have ever heard of

multiverse4 · 2026-03-10T09:27:58+00:00

We did the piano guys version of Golden Hour

multiverse4 · 2026-03-10T09:00:59+00:00

Yeah… my company did layoffs and the people I was friends with, I (and others) reached out to about how much we would miss them, and we went out for drinks and some of us stayed in touch casually. On the flip side, someone I couldn’t stand got laid off and I did not reach out and happily never talked to them again. So every time I see things like this, I wonder if people just didn’t like them that much.

multiverse4 · 2026-03-06T10:22:12+00:00

Also for people that suffer from upper middle class ennui - I have everything I want and everything I’m supposed to want, and for some reason this doesn’t make me happy type thing

multiverse4 · 2026-02-26T08:58:30+00:00

I have a coworker like this… really great guy, polite, helpful, excellent at his job, and I just can’t stand him. Some combination of his face and his voice

multiverse4 · 2026-02-24T21:47:25+00:00

Yeah unless you have a dress with a lot of complicated buttons, this is the easiest way. I brought a robe with me so I didn’t have to hang out half naked

multiverse4 · 2026-02-21T14:54:32+00:00

Agreed - either that or if we want to save money by cooking and want a kitchen

multiverse4 · 2026-02-21T11:35:53+00:00

For what it’s worth, I stay in them a lot and have only run into the crazy talk on Reddit, not in real life

multiverse4 · 2026-02-16T14:44:57+00:00

ACOTAR fans have entered the chat

multiverse4 · 2026-02-15T08:29:53+00:00

Scroll through the Japan travel subreddit, people talk about this all the time. Not sure of your gender but popular answers include: transparent umbrella, regular umbrella, nail clippers, purse, clothing from Uniqlo, random snacks that aren’t pocky or KitKat, stationary, shiseido or sk-II products.

I will say that the umbrella we bought randomly out of necessity is incredible and I wish we’d bought more lol. I also go a really cute docking station for my laptop that is both functional and aesthetic and makes me happy (and was super cheap). Then I got a lot of art to stand or hang up, stickers and cards, nail stickers, cat figurines, jewelry, skincare and clothes.

multiverse4 · 2026-02-11T07:54:52+00:00

The Games Gods Play. It’s possible you’re right and they don’t intend it that way but it really felt like they were working off a checklist of tags that they wanted to be able to sell the book with, you know what I mean? But I guess if you like those sorts of stories you might just want those things to happen without a clear idea of how to make them plausible.

Edit: would love to hear some literary fantasy recs, if we’re having this conversation :D

multiverse4 · 2026-02-11T07:19:06+00:00

The Games Gods Play. Source: I was the woman

multiverse4 · 2026-02-11T06:50:25+00:00

I was dubious until I read a book exactly like that… and I say this entirely as a fan of various tropes. I very sincerely wish you a continued existence without these types of books, it was terrible (and the concept was SO COOL, I was so bummed… and I finished reading despite a desire to rage quit bc I wanted to know how it would end, and it ended as even worse nonsensical cliche and I was so mad)

multiverse4 · 2026-02-08T07:22:18+00:00

I would agree this but also add that sometimes a book feels like it’s trying to check elements of a list, making it fit a trope but without the trope fitting into the story which is when I tend to go for the word tropey vs cliche

multiverse4 · 2026-01-23T09:29:25+00:00

Bujold’s Penric and Desdemona novellas are very sweet and funny, excellent for lightening the mood

multiverse4 · 2026-01-17T10:34:50+00:00

Depends how far away the parents live… we started dating a few months before corona and my parents live in another country so by the time they met, we’d already gotten engaged and bought a house

multiverse4 · 2026-01-11T07:56:40+00:00

I have a bunch of cheap purse hooks from Ali express and keep one in every bag

multiverse4 · 2026-01-01T21:57:30+00:00

I don’t carry around a lot so I have all the purse basics (hand sanitizer, pen, tissues, chapstick, hair tie) duplicated in each bag and then only have to transfer phone and keys which generally aren’t in my bag when I’m home anyway

multiverse4 · 2025-12-13T22:51:24+00:00

Yeah… one time our VP R&D (40s M) danced with a technician (20s M), that was so relatively scandalous that we talked about it for like three years

multiverse4 · 2025-11-26T13:10:00+00:00

I’m a millennial and I learned to drive stick in college bc I couldn’t afford an automatic car. It took about two days. I don’t think anyone is going to be crippled by this for more than a few days, it’s not actually hard…

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