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追求高效人生：我的个人基础设施细节
Seeking the productive life: Some details of my personal infrastructure (2019)
2021 — 2024，它一次次回到首页
黑点是上首页（≥ 50 分）的那次投稿，空心点是没冲上去的投稿，点越大分数越高。
导读
Stephen Wolfram 详细记录了自己三十多年积累的个人生产力基础设施：从邮件处理、文件归档、个人数据仓库，到办公室装修、移动办公装备等方方面面。文章展示了他如何把日常生活几乎全部数字化、系统化，以支撑极高的工作强度。
为什么经久不衰：它既是极端个人效率系统的罕见一手记录，也引发了关于生产力、量化自我与生活平衡的持久讨论，多年来反复登上 HN 首页。
HN 评论精选
这篇文章直接启发了作者开发个人数据仓库项目 Dogsheep。
我太喜欢这篇文章了。它启发了我的 Dogsheep 项目——我想做一个 Wolfram 所建系统的不那么吓人的简化版，毕竟 Dogsheep 显然是 Wolfram 的低配版（还能顺便玩个谐音梗）。
simonw查看英文原文
I love this essay so much. It was the inspiration for my Dogsheep project - https://dogsheep.github.io/ - because I wanted to build a much less impressive version of a subset of what Wolfram had built, and a Dogsheep is clearly a less intimidating version of a Wolfram! (Also it meant I could call my search engine Dogsheep Beta, as opposed to Wolfram Alpha - and I enjoyed that pun so much I spent quite a significant of time writing the software to support it: https://simonwillison.net/2020/Nov/14/personal-data-warehouses/ )
文章既迷人又荒诞，但确实能激励读者开始追踪和优化自己的生活。
必读文章。它极其有趣、明显荒诞、又值得学习。他以极其细致的笔触记录了日常工作环境的几乎每个部分，很多内容很夸张。他把生活优化到了难以置信的程度：带着笔记本散步只为略微降低静息心率、为消除电脑风扇声而改造办公室、为日常笔记和邮件建立精密归档系统。他还深入个人分析：从三十年的邮件时间戳看，他醒着的时间几乎 100% 在工作（夜猫子，凌晨3点睡9点起），每天打开近800封邮件。受此文影响，我也开始用番茄工作法追踪自己的时间。
sambroner查看英文原文
Let me start by saying... this is as must read article. I share it often. It is 1. extremely fascinating 2. patently ridiculous 3. something to learn from He documents almost every part of his daily work environment in painstaking detail. Much of it is ridiculous. All of it, including the article itself, is over the top. I am very appreciative that he chose to share. Stephen has optimized (for him! not for me) his life to an unbelievable degree. Whether that is walking outside with a laptop working because it slightly reduces his resting heart rate, the extensive renovations to his office to remove the sound of his computer fan, or the elaborate filing system he uses for his daily notes and mail. He also goes deep into his personal analytics. Stephen is working approximately 100% of the waking hours of the day as evidenced by the timestamps on the emails he sends, which are well plotted over 3 decades. (He's a night owl, sleeping 3am-9am). It also appears he is opening nearly 800 email every day and keeping his unreads below 200. I should add, partially because I read this article, I began tracking half hourly sprints in the pomodoro-style and have become more interested tracking parts of my own life.
建议 Wolfram 放弃手持设备，改用免提音频方案。
读得很开心，难得在野外遇到同类控制狂。不过他的基础设施在声音方面是短板：如果每天要打几小时电话，请务必用免提设备——最符合人体工学的东西就是没有东西。我用声卡加麦克风配一对好音箱，在办公室里走动也能像对方在房间里一样通话。
zorrolovsky查看英文原文
That was a great read. It got me smiling!. It's not often that you find fellow control freaks in the wild. Stephen Wolfram's personal infrastructure sounds overall great, but it crumbles in the sound department. If you're going to be on calls for hours every day, for everything that is holy please get a hands-free set up. The most ergonomic object is no object at all. I use a Scarlett 212 mic and sound card paired with a decent pair of speakers and my working room works like a charm. Everything is set up so if I start a call any device I can walk though the office and have a conversation with someone like they're in the room. 10/10 would recommend.
过度优化的生产力体系忽视了留白和无结构时间的价值。
我对这种超级生产力的问题是，它似乎只把人往一个方向推。给自己留出休息和无结构的时间被这些制度忽视了。不带任何设备的日常散步对大脑帮助巨大，一点（可控的）混乱也很有益。
tartoran查看英文原文
The problem I have with super productivity is that it appears to push people only in one direction. I think giving oneself a break and having unstructured time is something that is overlooked with these regimes. Merely talking daily walks without any devices or technology helps our brains enormously. And a bit of chaos (under control of course) can be very beneficial
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