I think if you’re earning 100k/yr, it’s pretty likely that improvements to your health can make you more than 2% more productive, and thus it’s worth it. Unfortunately I think this is pretty spiky, where some people will get >10% improvements and many people will get 0% improvements, and it may be possible to tell ahead of time which group you’ll be in. [Like, the relevant factor shouldn’t be “I’m young” but something more like “I love the experience of being in my body.”]
The spiky part makes sense. I’m the type of person who is very accepting of expected value based reasoning, so I’m not turned off by it. Although it does beg the question of whether I am the type of person who is a spike or not. I don’t feel like I am, but maybe there’s something I’m overlooking. Do you have any thoughts on what makes someone a spike?
2% productive seems possible, but I don’t really have a good sense of what that number is. Would you mind talking a little bit about what leads you to this belief?
Do you have any thoughts on what makes someone a spike?
I mean, the OP has two examples of the target customer: someone with a serious autoimmune disorder, and someone who got breast cancer while young.
My interest in this sort of thing stems from having low energy compared to people around me, and wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a medical treatment available that somehow increases my productive hours by 20-100%. Compare to my boyfriend, who already works >60hr weeks, where I would be astounded if a similar intervention existed for him.
2% productive seems possible, but I don’t really have a good sense of what that number is. Would you mind talking a little bit about what leads you to this belief?
In terms of inputs, that looks like “you get one more hour of productive work done per week” for a regular full-timer, which I think is a reasonable thing to expect if you, say, your sleep is 10 minutes more efficient each night, or your diet is better such that you have 10 minutes more of focused energy per day. Or the story might be ‘fewer sick days’—if you’re working 250 days a year, then you need to shave 5 sick days off a year (which is many fewer than I was taking to start with, for example, but is probably well within the realm of possibility for the two founders).
[This also is assuming it just costs the money—however, if the active ingredient is that you’re seeing doctors more often, or spending limited experimental budgets on health things instead of other things, then it can be much harder to pay for itself. And it’s assuming that your productivity is somehow measured in a way that flows back to you—if you need to increase your productivity by 5% to get a 2% raise, then for this to be strictly worth it on financial grounds you’d need to get a 5% improvement from increased health.]
I think if you’re earning 100k/yr, it’s pretty likely that improvements to your health can make you more than 2% more productive, and thus it’s worth it. Unfortunately I think this is pretty spiky, where some people will get >10% improvements and many people will get 0% improvements, and it may be possible to tell ahead of time which group you’ll be in. [Like, the relevant factor shouldn’t be “I’m young” but something more like “I love the experience of being in my body.”]
The spiky part makes sense. I’m the type of person who is very accepting of expected value based reasoning, so I’m not turned off by it. Although it does beg the question of whether I am the type of person who is a spike or not. I don’t feel like I am, but maybe there’s something I’m overlooking. Do you have any thoughts on what makes someone a spike?
2% productive seems possible, but I don’t really have a good sense of what that number is. Would you mind talking a little bit about what leads you to this belief?
I mean, the OP has two examples of the target customer: someone with a serious autoimmune disorder, and someone who got breast cancer while young.
My interest in this sort of thing stems from having low energy compared to people around me, and wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a medical treatment available that somehow increases my productive hours by 20-100%. Compare to my boyfriend, who already works >60hr weeks, where I would be astounded if a similar intervention existed for him.
In terms of inputs, that looks like “you get one more hour of productive work done per week” for a regular full-timer, which I think is a reasonable thing to expect if you, say, your sleep is 10 minutes more efficient each night, or your diet is better such that you have 10 minutes more of focused energy per day. Or the story might be ‘fewer sick days’—if you’re working 250 days a year, then you need to shave 5 sick days off a year (which is many fewer than I was taking to start with, for example, but is probably well within the realm of possibility for the two founders).
[This also is assuming it just costs the money—however, if the active ingredient is that you’re seeing doctors more often, or spending limited experimental budgets on health things instead of other things, then it can be much harder to pay for itself. And it’s assuming that your productivity is somehow measured in a way that flows back to you—if you need to increase your productivity by 5% to get a 2% raise, then for this to be strictly worth it on financial grounds you’d need to get a 5% improvement from increased health.]
I think the biggest wins are among people who have something subtly wrong with them that can be fixed.
In Strategies for Personal Growth terms, you have a problem that can be fixed with healing.
I’m quite skeptical that improvements will be realized by this methodology. Not clear that there are health improvement gains in expectation.