Japan’s Anti-Procrastination Cafe

2-minute video about Tokyo’s Manuscript Writing Cafe 🇯🇵…

It’s kinda genius…

• You set a goal when you go in.
• They don’t let you leave until your work is done.
• 3 intensity levels of progress checks.
• You pay per hour and get unlimited tea or coffee.

A skeptic would probably respond to this idea with one word: karoshi 💀

Karoshi […] which can be translated into “overwork death”, is a Japanese term relating to occupation-related sudden death.

But Justin Jackson reckons there should be an online version:

FaaS: “Force me to do shit; as a service”

I call you up, and you stay on the line and make sure that I do work that I’ve been procrastinating on (taxes, paperwork, cleaning my office, whatever).

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