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Re: The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done

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Post by Teleoflexuous »

onemoresoop wrote: post #32

I may have ADHD, I never went for a diagnosis and found body doubling useful at times, especially when I was in school some decades ago, back then I had no name for it. However, I find white noise very helpful with staying on the task and with increased focus. My company moved, about a year ago, into a very cramped office that is also extremely noisy. This exasperated me, I would get drained of energy in a couple of…

I come to shill my webapp for background noise because it has a twist not appearing in anyone's recommendations.

Whenever I'm switching between tasks (thinking vs reading vs writing) I'd either turn the sound off or on, given I needed more or less attention at the moment. Minor problem with that was that sometimes unexpectedly I'd stick with the new task longer than expected, start to get bored, but w/e background sound I had on didn't match the task, so I'd look for something else... Overall a bit annoying for some groups of tasks.

I'm experimenting with mixing music with podcasts with extra noise and turning it on and off, but I also made https://stimulantnoi.se/ (with extra reading on psychological basis of the design and link to open source standalone desktop app on https://incentiveassemblage.substack.com/p/why-is-nobody-ser...). It allows for mixing (including uploading additional) sounds into sets and binds switching between those whole sets to media keys for quick access.

Re: The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done

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Post by AbstractH24 »

criddell wrote: post #116
Tade0 wrote: post #109

My most productive period within the last 12 months was when I rented a desk in a co-working space for the summer so that I could catch up with a friend who also went there. To me it was less his mere presence and more the ability to immediately share any thoughts that would occur to me. Also air conditioning. Same goes with chores - I would much rather have someone be in the same room while I e.g. do the dishes or c…

> I could pull this off only because my commute was short The other critical factor was sharing a space with somebody who wanted to work in a similar way. If you shared that space with somebody who was significantly more or less social, the impedance mismatch could have been very negative.

Would be interesting to create a tool that efficiently matched people this way.

Re: The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done

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Post by nexus6 »

onemoresoop wrote: post #32

I may have ADHD, I never went for a diagnosis and found body doubling useful at times, especially when I was in school some decades ago, back then I had no name for it. However, I find white noise very helpful with staying on the task and with increased focus. My company moved, about a year ago, into a very cramped office that is also extremely noisy. This exasperated me, I would get drained of energy in a couple of…

MyNoise.Net is also very good.

Re: The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done

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Post by roland35 »

suzzer99 wrote: post #76
Tabular-Iceberg wrote: post #59

This is where remote work goes off the rails, but then it’s wild how intentionally isolating the implementation of RTO that many large corporations are doing now. They line people up in rows, put headphones on their heads and wire them up to Teams and Jira to spend the whole day in isolation. Because taking a walk to another floor of building to talk to someone like a normal human being is too wasteful, but somehow f…

Working in an open office on cool stuff with legitimate friends was the best work experience I've ever had by far. Most days it didn't even feel like work. Now I wfh full time with people who are just coworkers and I'm miserable.

I also had a fun experience in an open office, but the key element of it was that the office was only about 15-20 people and we were all on the same project and team.

When I visited the Big Tech office (as a remote employee), it was an entire floor with rows of unrelated people all together. My team was together but it felt much different, more distracting, and hard to have a conversation without feeling like you are bothering other people.

Re: The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done

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Post by tom89999 »

ulrischa wrote: post #55

This is why childs in Germany get a Schulbegleiter. A person that just goes with the child to school

Ich muss mich aber fragen warum dies nötig wurde. Niemand an meiner Schule hatte eine Allergie, Erkrankung dieser Art oder irgendwas. Was ist seit den 1980ern passiert? Sind es Umweltgifte? Farb- und Aromastoffe? Zuviel Süsses? Ich kann es mir kaum vorstellen dass das menschliche Erbgut so kaputt gegangen ist. Wir haben eine exzellente medizinische Versorgung und Forschung und Entwicklung gehabt. Mein Frau lehrt an einer Waldorf-Schule. Die Kinder leiden wirklich keinen Hunger und Not. Leider aber werden viele Kinder gekündigt da sie verhaltensauffällig und somit unbeschulbar sind. Es kann doch nicht sein, ich würde es verstehen wenn die pure Armut oder Gewalt in der Familie die Kinder kaputtmacht. Sind es die Smartphones?

Re: The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done

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Post by antfarm »

onemoresoop wrote: post #32

I may have ADHD, I never went for a diagnosis and found body doubling useful at times, especially when I was in school some decades ago, back then I had no name for it. However, I find white noise very helpful with staying on the task and with increased focus. My company moved, about a year ago, into a very cramped office that is also extremely noisy. This exasperated me, I would get drained of energy in a couple of…

I like to listen to https://coffitivity.com to stay concentrated.

Re: The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done

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Post by yamrzou »

antfarm wrote: post #126
onemoresoop wrote: post #32

I may have ADHD, I never went for a diagnosis and found body doubling useful at times, especially when I was in school some decades ago, back then I had no name for it. However, I find white noise very helpful with staying on the task and with increased focus. My company moved, about a year ago, into a very cramped office that is also extremely noisy. This exasperated me, I would get drained of energy in a couple of…

I like to listen to https://coffitivity.com to stay concentrated.

These don't work for me. My brain knows I'm deceiving it, so it doesn't respond to this kind of stimulation.

Re: The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done

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Post by jimmydddd »

Teleoflexuous wrote: post #121
onemoresoop wrote: post #32

I may have ADHD, I never went for a diagnosis and found body doubling useful at times, especially when I was in school some decades ago, back then I had no name for it. However, I find white noise very helpful with staying on the task and with increased focus. My company moved, about a year ago, into a very cramped office that is also extremely noisy. This exasperated me, I would get drained of energy in a couple of…

I come to shill my webapp for background noise because it has a twist not appearing in anyone's recommendations. Whenever I'm switching between tasks (thinking vs reading vs writing) I'd either turn the sound off or on, given I needed more or less attention at the moment. Minor problem with that was that sometimes unexpectedly I'd stick with the new task longer than expected, start to get bored, but w/e background so…

Nice job. I played with the industrial set (grouping) and it worked well. The groupings concept looks good. And the intensity adjusting is an interesting concept. I've tried or signed up for a lot of ambient sites over the years, and this one definitely introduces a few concepts I haven't previously seen. Good luck!

Re: The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done

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Post by heeen2 »

tom89999 wrote: post #125
ulrischa wrote: post #55

This is why childs in Germany get a Schulbegleiter. A person that just goes with the child to school

Ich muss mich aber fragen warum dies nötig wurde. Niemand an meiner Schule hatte eine Allergie, Erkrankung dieser Art oder irgendwas. Was ist seit den 1980ern passiert? Sind es Umweltgifte? Farb- und Aromastoffe? Zuviel Süsses? Ich kann es mir kaum vorstellen dass das menschliche Erbgut so kaputt gegangen ist. Wir haben eine exzellente medizinische Versorgung und Forschung und Entwicklung gehabt. Mein Frau lehrt an e…

An einer Waldorfschule hast Du selection bias
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