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Heard a guy in a Lisbon cafe say he only stays in a country if the internet is faster than his home city.
He argued it's a key metric for productivity, but I think that misses the whole point of why we do this. My best work in Bali last year happened on a slower connection because I was simply happier there. Does anyone else think we focus too much on speed over quality of life?
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adam51714d ago
That's a wild metric to live by. I get needing a baseline for work, but chasing speed like that turns the whole experience into a spreadsheet. Some of my most focused weeks were in a Greek village where the internet cut out for an hour every afternoon. You learn to batch tasks, and that forced break meant I actually saw the place I was in. Speed is just one line item, not the whole budget.
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bennett.james14d ago
Totally get that... reminds me of a friend who tracked his "deep work" hours like a pro athlete. He had charts and everything. Thing is, he got so stressed about the numbers that he stopped actually enjoying the work itself. The whole point kinda got lost in the data. Makes you wonder what we're really measuring sometimes.
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gavinramirez12d ago
What about the cost of living? A fast connection in a cheap place can let you work less and live more. Adam517's forced break in Greece sounds better than grinding nonstop on a gigabit line somewhere expensive. Chasing speed alone could trap you in a city where you're just working to pay rent.
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