<story><title>I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month</title><url>https://simonberens.me/blog/i-hired-5-people</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tacotacotaco</author><text>Maybe I’m too cynical but it just seems performative. It seems like any number of YouTube videos where some financially well off influencer spends their money doing something awkward to attract views. And it worked. Here we are gawking at the latest stunt. Like and subscribe. Don’t forget to smash that bell. Check out my patreon for access to my Discord.</text></item><item><author>12345hn6789</author><text>I honestly cannot believe this. The porn part, the make me a smoothie request, dating dinners.&lt;p&gt;This guy seriously paid people to sit behind him and didn&amp;#x27;t even think about them stealing his $1000 monitors until after the fact?&lt;p&gt;He didn&amp;#x27;t try blocking any non productive sites? No productivity software? No pomadoro technique-esq focus methods?&lt;p&gt;This guy should have paid $88&amp;#x2F;hour for therapy if we are being honest here</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway675309</author><text>Yeah, I had the same impression after reading the blog post, it very much felt like a performance art piece rather than a practical experiment with any quantifiably measurable takeaway since there&amp;#x27;s no way this would be very financially sustainable as an actual applicable solution to the problem.&lt;p&gt;I think he could&amp;#x27;ve saved a great deal of money by just going into a collaborative workspace environment.</text></comment>
<story><title>I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month</title><url>https://simonberens.me/blog/i-hired-5-people</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tacotacotaco</author><text>Maybe I’m too cynical but it just seems performative. It seems like any number of YouTube videos where some financially well off influencer spends their money doing something awkward to attract views. And it worked. Here we are gawking at the latest stunt. Like and subscribe. Don’t forget to smash that bell. Check out my patreon for access to my Discord.</text></item><item><author>12345hn6789</author><text>I honestly cannot believe this. The porn part, the make me a smoothie request, dating dinners.&lt;p&gt;This guy seriously paid people to sit behind him and didn&amp;#x27;t even think about them stealing his $1000 monitors until after the fact?&lt;p&gt;He didn&amp;#x27;t try blocking any non productive sites? No productivity software? No pomadoro technique-esq focus methods?&lt;p&gt;This guy should have paid $88&amp;#x2F;hour for therapy if we are being honest here</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cactusplant7374</author><text>This is a guy that has a &amp;quot;Date Me&amp;quot; link on his website that links to a google form. He seems quite unique.</text></comment>