"...I cancelled my subscription to my formerly favourite online news portal (the German “Spiegel-Online”)..." Very good. Spiegel Online - unfortunately - became terribly bad over the last years, with click-bait headlines, sensational reporting as well as pushing fear & anxiety throughout their articles.
Do you have a different German newspaper you would recommend now? I used to read der Spiegel regularly to keep my German from getting too rusty.
How I regained concentration and focus
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Re: How I regained concentration and focus
#422Typo: It's Daniel Kahneman and not David Kahnemann.
thanx, I fixed that.
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#423Earlier quoted context omitted.
No doubt the bloody eastern front had a big role, but it's hard to argue that it wouldn't have ended soon anyway with the atomic bomb. Would anything less have convinced Japan to surrender?
Hm? The nukes dropped in august 1945. Nazi Germany had long surrendered by then. In part because the Red Army had come all the way to Berlin.
Yes, that's what I said. My point is the proof of the bomb would have ended that front of the war even if Russia hadn't.
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#424Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've done this with YouTube and it's been extraordinarily effective for me. Without the history associated with my account, the recommendation engine just shows me the default junk, preventing me from falling down rabbit holes when I just want to watch some video. For keeping in touch with channels that I still want to follow, I've subscribed to them via RSS. If you need an extra push to enforce that you only use pri…
We sound like casino addicts who voluntarily try to be banned from casinos. At least we’re only losing time, not money. But we’re still losing health, by staying in bed too much because of social media…
Au contraire. You can always make more money. The only thing you cannot make more of is time.
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#425Earlier quoted context omitted.
My method is using private browsing to open addicting websites. This way their address will not be saved in history and I'll have to type it which sometimes stop me from doing that in mid-way. Also helps with automatically logging out.
I've done this with YouTube and it's been extraordinarily effective for me. Without the history associated with my account, the recommendation engine just shows me the default junk, preventing me from falling down rabbit holes when I just want to watch some video. For keeping in touch with channels that I still want to follow, I've subscribed to them via RSS. If you need an extra push to enforce that you only use pri…
With youtube, on the phone, setup an alter account, go to settings, switch on "pause watch history" and "pause search history".
You can then see how sick that algorithm is in recommending and pushing junk. Only now its junk you will despise.
Re: How I regained concentration and focus
#426I try to keep my productivity improvements secret, because any time I announce one -- especially if I also explain why it happened -- I immediately falsify whatever I just said by losing all focus and producing nothing of interest for a while.
So, can you tell us your secret? :)
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#427Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe. Maybe not. But no matter what those other people do, they’ll never ever be able to get more youthful, energetic years with their children and (hopefully) grandchildren. All that money and even Elon can’t buy time. I had kids relatively young for a yuppie male (27) and while that was 100% the “right time” I would have done it earlier if I had known how great they are.
I’m really struggling with this right now. I’m turning 33 next month and really want children. I have endless memories of my dad and grandfathers teaching me amazing lessons and being best/strongest men I have ever been around. I want to fulfill that role that for someone! We didn’t have much money but camping or diy building is something fondly reminisce on and made me who I am. My partner is 25 and is not decided o…
Stop waiting. This may not be popular with the hive mind, but if you want kids and she doesn’t: move on.
I love my wife more than anything outside my family, but the kids are on another level. In 20 years you may not remember your current partner’s face. But you won’t pass a moment without thinking about your children, if you choose to have them.
Re: How I regained concentration and focus
#428I try to keep my productivity improvements secret, because any time I announce one -- especially if I also explain why it happened -- I immediately falsify whatever I just said by losing all focus and producing nothing of interest for a while.
So, can you tell us your secret? :)
Not sure, but here are candidates.
Staying healthy.
Documentation, journaling, meditation, reviewing -- they're all different aspect of the same, uh, something.
Thinking and writing a plan before doing anything complicated. Sensing when something might be complicated.
Trusting the right people with the right tasks.
Trading money for time.
Picking my battles well.
Finding prior art.
Knowing when to learn a better way (tool, language).
Knowing when to automate.
Lacking creativity when it comes to leisure.
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#429Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reading news that will have little to zero impact on your life takes away time you can spend doing more meaningful activities. It doesn't just have to be 'work'. It can be hobbies, spending time with your kids, whatever you want.
Not all news is global. And besides we all vote. I hope. Do you live your life with no perspective of your world?
I agree, and that's why my comment targeted news that has 'little to zero impact on your life'.
"Believe me it is better to understand the balance-sheet of one's own life than of the corn trade." - Seneca