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A few years ago I realized I have more important things to do. I log on here when I can, but i'm fine with missing things.
Sure; there's so much I'll never come back to, but whatever. That's just life. I look for recurring patterns, not individual items.
The fact is there will always be too much for anyone to do. It might help to think about the issue you're having like how you think about FOMO.
I don't see any issues with what you've described. If I were you I'd challenge the interpretation that not reading every single thing you find interesting is a bad thing. The fact is there will always be too much for anyone to do. It might help to think about the issue you're having like how you think about FOMO.
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> You'll find in a few weeks time the things that didn't actually matter are gone. What gets me mad sometimes is that when I work on something and hit a road block, then I remember I found an article about it a year or so ago and I definitely saved it. I just have no idea how to find it. I have not looked, but I wonder if there is an indexing tool that would also do an OCR on screenshots, PDFs etc. in the local files…
Yes! Search is an incredibly important tool. I have recently started using Zotero, which can create offline copies of saved webpages and papers. You can then search their contents. Last week I bookmarked Yacy, which is a search engine and which seems to allow you to define your own web index. However, I haven't gotten around to seeing how it really works...
I use Nicorette at work when I really need to focus, and I try to keep a consistent sleep schedule.
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>allow you to do one thing at a time Yep, this is why I chose truck driving as a job. I am looking to change out of it now after 12 years, but there's no short list of 'one thing at a time'jobs, and the ADHD has prevented me from learning programming so far. Regarding OP's question, when the tab counter on Firefox turns to infinity, I check the last ten tabs for anything really important, then take a deep breath and…
Can you elaborate on this: "ADHD has prevented me from learning programming"?
I find I want to be doing things. Those things must be immediately (or very quickly at least) and consistently rewarding, or I'll stop. That much is, as far as I've found in the last few decades, an unchangeable fact.
That pretty much rules out studying.
You can learn by doing things too, obviously, but the early stages of learning programming are either sensible small steps (hello world, what's a function, etc etc) or gigantic unrealistic moon-of-an-exoplanet-shot projects (I'm going to build the next World of Warcraft by myself by next weekend).
The sensible small steps are exciting and give the doing things successfully rush at first, but that goes away fast and you need more.
You do hello world (wow I made the computer do something!). Learn how to use some conditions (wow I made the computer decide something!). Learn about libraries (wow so I can just stitch a bunch of these together and build the next Big App!). Start working on your big idea, quickly realise you're not going to be getting the success hits fast enough. Do something else "for a bit" and never touch your project again.
I'm fairly sure the only reason I managed to learn to code was that my first job in tech support was both easy and boring, and automating parts of that job was more fun than actually doing the job. Productive things become much easier when they're procrastination from something less fun.
It's taken me ten years, but I'm finally at the point now where I've built up a big enough skillset that I can take on projects that I'm interested in, and make progress fast enough that I get my fix and can stick with them.
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Does the UK have private doctors? If the public system has endless wait times, can you pay $$$ to a doctor to see them quicker privately instead? (Assuming one has $$$ to spend - I acknowledge not everyone does, and the people who would gain the most tangible benefit from a psychiatric diagnosis are often the people least likely to have the $$$ to pay for one.)
It does, I did a bit of digging after posting and it looks like you can get your GP to refer you to a private practice, pay them and then switch back to the GP once you've been diagnosed and started medication. So it looks like theres an initial cost to get going but it takes the wait time down from ~3 years to around 6 weeks. Think I might need to call my GP and get started, I've been putting this off way too long.
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Is the long term consumption of caffeine really a good idea? I would expect the tolerance build up to negate the positive effects fairly quickly. Most people that need to have their coffee in the morning are NOT more awake than a non-coffee drinker but need the coffee to just reach their normal baseline. So you would need higher and higher dosages to see any positive effects and at that point you get nasty side-effec…
Caffeine isn't heroin: tolerance plateaus after a few weeks of drinking coffee daily. > nasty side-effects like heart racing and insomnia I've been drinking coffee daily for two decades now and haven't ever experienced heart racing, nor insomnia if I limit my consumption to the A.M. People do process caffeine wildly differently through. I apparently have genes that make me not very sensitive to caffeine at all, but I…