Well played polite vampires! Otherwise you could have been subject to this rebuff!

Hey! Thanks for all this. I’m currently self employed so my boss is a bit of hard ass! J/k. It’s good to know about the neurofeedback. If I get a second opinion, I’ll keep it in mind.

I’ve realized that I have certain times of day I’m more productive and know how long I can work during each session. I’m good for about 1.5 hours three to four times a day with 45 minute breaks between. But more coping techniques and formally investigating it with community knowledge would be great for me.

If you’ve ever hurt some one badly enough to cause a break in the relationship, you know the apology is just the start to the repair.

So the one cited study is from 2021. All of those behaviors make sense for 2021. But the article fails to link to a study that ran for four years. I tried poking around to find one, but failed.

Believe it or not, that was my first impression as well. I really didn’t use it because it seemed like it would end up costing me money. But about a month ago, they sent out a survey asking why I wasn’t using it. I suspect we werent the only ones not giving it a shake. I didn’t do the survey, but it reminded me to give it a try. Throwing this book in there has been great and the free AI voices have a nice flow for the most part.

Much more than the diagnosis, I’ve been more interested in the coping techniques. I don’t think my manifestation is so bad that I need medication, though I was sincerely curious if it would change things for the better. I might try for a second opinion. The practitioner even gave a reference for someone who died more comprehensive testing, but she doesn’t take insurance. So I’m waffling a bit.

I’ll check out this ADHD life. I feel like it’s been mentioned in other communities, but honestly can’t remember.

Cheers!

Check out elevenlabs. They used to do a reader I liked, Omnivore. It’s pretty natural sounding. As of now, it’s free, but I like it.

Glad you two clicked. It’s nice knowing someone out there has similar ideas and a different way of solving problems.

I tried to get an ADHD diagnosis a year ago. The practitioner basically said no but it was hard for her because I was so on the line. But when I hear the litany of behaviors by a subset of people with ADHD, it can bring me to tears because it’s nice to see I’m not the only one.

PM work can be fun for sure.

Awesome. I’ve been feeding the ebook into a text to speech reader. It’s been working for me.

I’m glad to hear you have a boss that’s open to your mode of thinking. Good luck and I wish you well!

I’d recommend reading Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. I’m not sure that all the claims hold up to scrutiny, but it’s nice to see a book that notes the way I like to think has real world application.

Somethings I suspect you’re doing are:

• Analogical Thinking of Deep Structures to create an Outside View (Chapter 5)
• Spacing which gives time away from a problem and asks part of the mind to re-collect the issue so you know those deeper structures well. This is presented in the chapter on learning, but I suspect it’s relevant here (Chapter 4)

Oddly enough, if your boss wants to foster creative problem solving for novel problems, this book might convince him to give you more latitude and resources to do your thing.

Just wait till tomorrow to have your kids. Kegels it in!

Sometimes I’m too tired to unmask.

Cut the wide end of. Dip your tooth brush into opening. Moan when you do. 60% of the time, it works every time.

Surprised there’s no one in the comments going bat shit crazy that this was made by AI. Are we not doing that anymore?

The queue can be sorted by date. If you hit date again it reverse the order.

Hasok Chang, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University, wrote a wonderful book Is Water H2O? In it he traces the historical and philosophical twists and turns to get from water to H2O. Along the way, he reckons with and treats seriously competing theories other than what emerged as the winner.

In the end, he doesn’t disagree with the role of H2O in water. Rather, he shows how the process of scientific theory making is benefited from a pluralistic view through s repetitive process of challenge and theory adjustment.

I mainly made the comment because we shouldn’t always assume what we were shown in high school captures the deeper process of insight creation.

He deals with the weekly emergent qualities like surface tension. We might be able to say that surface tension is one property of wetness even.

But I also think that water is one of the few phenomena that seems to actually have a strongly emergent qualities. Which is to say, there’s qualities that are in water that are not explainable by the properties of its component parts.

Ultimately, one of Chang’s goals it to contextualize and not reduce these scientific concepts for greater insights.

To be more accurate, I don’t think it’s wrong to say that water is more than just H2O. To get gestalt, we should say water is something other than the sum of its parts, H2O.

H2O is not water

Diuretic not laxative.

Fuck. I sorta do this. Not our of some need for symmetry, but so it’s center of gravity is as close to the center of the carton as possible. Dropping eggs sucks.

Do the old fold and drip.

This may come as a surprise to some, but project managers exist outside of software as well.