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Re: Show HN: How many miles do you think you've scrolled today?

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Post by yboris »

archview wrote: post #18
glup wrote: post #12

I was once in a seminar led by one of the world's pre-eminent primate researchers who explained that, without any irony or humor, he refused to scroll when reading emails--Anything important should be immediately visible.

I have been developing my email habits to fit this. If my email is turning into a novel I make a point to bring the important information to the top as a TL;DR. If I forward an email chain longer then two emails I condense the email chain in my forwarded email so the reader sees and understands exactly what I need them to see. I have found that if I forward a long email chain/write a novel of an email no one reads th…

I keep remembering computational kindness idea from the marvelous book Algorithms to Live By:

Try not to pass the cognitive load to others. Make them do as little work as possible -- be computationally kind.

Re: Show HN: How many miles do you think you've scrolled today?

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Post by inetknght »

joshiefishbein wrote: post #7

This would be interesting to see on my phone at the end of the day. Even having decreased my social media and news consumption considerably over the last few years, I still catch myself mindlessly scrolling from time to time. I would love the shameful alert that told me “you’ve scrolled twice as many miles as you’ve walked today” since I know the second set of metrics definitely exists. It may be what I need to quit…

I think that would actually fit very well alongside eg Apple's "You've had 30 minutes of screen time today" messages

Re: Show HN: How many miles do you think you've scrolled today?

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Re: Show HN: How many miles do you think you've scrolled today?

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Post by craftinator »

marban wrote: post #17
glup wrote: post #12

I was once in a seminar led by one of the world's pre-eminent primate researchers who explained that, without any irony or humor, he refused to scroll when reading emails--Anything important should be immediately visible.

For a transactional mail or newsletter, perhaps. But overall I find this often-cited attitude made up by a bunch of productivity hackers highly arrogant.

Seems like a trait of those who either don't know how to delegate properly or who have attention deficit issues.

Re: Show HN: How many miles do you think you've scrolled today?

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Post by eqvinox »

rootusrootus wrote: post #2

I wonder how well the "pixel distance scrolled" translates into the actual distance your finger moved the wheel.

You'd also need to identify the size of the scroll wheel, which is particularly hard if the user has multiple input devices and you don't even know which one they used :)

(e.g. touchpad + mouse)

Re: Show HN: How many miles do you think you've scrolled today?

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Post by AareyBaba »

yboris wrote: post #31
archview wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have been developing my email habits to fit this. If my email is turning into a novel I make a point to bring the important information to the top as a TL;DR. If I forward an email chain longer then two emails I condense the email chain in my forwarded email so the reader sees and understands exactly what I need them to see. I have found that if I forward a long email chain/write a novel of an email no one reads th…

I keep remembering computational kindness idea from the marvelous book Algorithms to Live By : Try not to pass the cognitive load to others. Make them do as little work as possible -- be computationally kind.

I like that term 'computational kindness' and will use it within my team. I've noticed that for some engineers this is a natural thing to do - they summarize threads, highlight salient points and document information so other don't have to waste time. They rise within the organisation as tech leaders who communicate well. For others, this doesn't even occur to them as something worth doing.

Re: Show HN: How many miles do you think you've scrolled today?

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Post by KMnO4 »

glup wrote: post #12

I was once in a seminar led by one of the world's pre-eminent primate researchers who explained that, without any irony or humor, he refused to scroll when reading emails--Anything important should be immediately visible.

This is also standard journalism practice, and I use it all the time as a somewhat heuristic for news article credibility.

Journalists are taught to put the most important details at the head of an article, and the least important at the end. This is tradition from print newspapers, where your article would be cut if the editor didn't have enough space. Sometimes only the first paragraph would make it into print, so you'd better make sure all the important details are in there.

If I'm reading an article and it doesn't have all the important information before the fold, there's a high probability (in my experience) that other issues exist (eg shoddy sources or plain factual errors).

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