{"id":668,"date":"2009-10-11T20:31:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T03:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=668"},"modified":"2009-10-11T20:31:38","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T03:31:38","slug":"netflix-productivity-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2009\/10\/netflix-productivity-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Thoughts: Netflix as a productivity tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you live close enough to a Netflix mailing hub, it&#8217;s possible to get on the maximal schedule:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enjoy a DVD over the weekend<\/li>\n<li>Mail it back on Monday<\/li>\n<li>Tusday, Netflix gets it, ships a new one<\/li>\n<li>Which you get (and watch) on Wednesday<\/li>\n<li>Return in Thursday mail<\/li>\n<li>Friday, Netflix gets it, ships a new one<\/li>\n<li>repeat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This can scale up to multiple discs at a time, but at a time management level, it starts to suck. In particular, you get very little done Wednesday evenings. If you miss either mailing deadline, you fall back to 1 DVD for that week.<\/p>\n<p>A better system is to reward yourself with some movie time after meeting a milestone. That way, as long as your task remains uncompleted, you&#8217;re racking up a $15 (or whatever) a month penalty for your own sloth. It seems like most people I know who have Netflix subscriptions tend to slip into a slow pattern anyway&#8211;in the mailing room I see the same mailer sitting there for weeks at a time&#8211;so why not harness human nature for motivation purposes?<\/p>\n<p>More collected Geek Thoughts at http:\/\/<a href=\"http:\/\/geekthoughts.info\/\">geekthoughts<\/a>.info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live close enough to a Netflix mailing hub, it&#8217;s possible to get on the maximal schedule: Enjoy a DVD over the weekend Mail it back on Monday Tusday, Netflix gets it, ships a new one Which you get (and watch) on Wednesday Return in Thursday mail Friday, Netflix gets it, ships a new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[284],"tags":[1179,871,869,185,870,1167],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekthoughts","tag-geekthoughts","tag-human-nature","tag-motivation","tag-netflix","tag-time-management","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-aM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}