• bouh@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    No. Humans don’t thrive under pressure. This is merely a totalitarian idea.

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      2 days ago

      Where’d totalitarianism come in now?

      I like how you’re downvoting each of my comments as if that makes your arguments more valid. I’ll go ahead and do the same to you now.

      Look, a relatively massive chunk of research is done by people who aren’t neurotypicals. In particular, nearly every good software engineer has ADHD and so do a LOT of scientists, etc.

      Without deadlines, nothing would ever get done because we’d all be working on 50 other projects instead of what needs to be done

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        1 day ago

        When so many people have adhd you should question whether it’s a mental condition or a societal condition.

        And you’re just saying bullshit. Just because you can’t work without deadlines doesn’t mean deadlines are necessary. That’s just management lies to extract “productivity” at the expense of everything else.

        Free softwares wouldn’t exist if your theory had any truth to itself. Art wouldn’t exist either.

        That is a totalitarian idea because it only leads to totalitarian behaviours. Like the ones we have in so many companies where engineers are monitored like they’re children and given unrealistic deadlines under the pretense they’re lazy or procrastinate. None of this actually work. There is absolutely zero evidence it does.

        You are generalising over something that’s wrong. That is the problem of your thesis.

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          2 hours ago

          It’s a mental condition. It’s been researched plenty. I didn’t say much about deadlines. I said most people who might have a hard time focusing more than 3 or 4 hours of their 8 workhours a day otherwise, could probably focus 16 hours a day knowing they’re saving millions of lives. Is it sustainable? Hell no, but it gets you rapid innovation.

          At the same time what I’m gathering is that you personally would never be motivated to work harder just because other people’s lives are at stake.