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Thanks for sharing your situation. I don't have any magical advice or anything, but from an internet stranger, I hope things go well for you.

Working with prospects and turning them into customers is a way more interesting problem.

Agreed. That's also the hardest part, and where most value is created.

While not an answer to your specific question, this popped into my head as being similar in tone to what I think you're asking about.

https://reason.com/2024/10/17/british-man-convicted-of-crimi...

(An example of something that might be perceived by some as a judicial over-reaction based on perceived offensiveness to others.)

Gosh. Seeing that is kind of more ... emotional than I'd have expected. Gonna print a screenshot of it for the memories folder. It was just such a different time. Can't imagine what later generations would think was the point of things like a web counter, but golly that was so cool back in the day. :)

"Display a text count of visitors to your web pages. Includes: zero padding, file locking, linking the count, displaying begin date and counting multiple pages."

Similar perspective, but I'd offer a minor tweak. Just as before gmail people spent a lot of time "managing" their email. Gmail allowed us to stop bothering and just use search to find stuff among the now-messy volume of email. It works pretty well.

Similarly, I'd say save everything, but spend no time on organizing it, relying on search and ai/future technology to find what you want from among the mess.

I think those are two different things: a) absorbing what you're reading and b) speed.

Re absorbing, I suspect that's more about your current mindset, are you tired, etc.

Re speed, one trick that I've found works is to force yourself to read faster by using a finger/something under the words, which moves at a faster pace than comfortable, and you just try to keep up with it. It's a bit uncomfortable, but after awhile you will find you are reading faster. This is similar to the strategy used by people learning to memorize things more quickly described in https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011...

"No matter how much I practiced, I couldn’t memorize playing cards any faster than 1 every 10 seconds. I was stuck in a rut, and I couldn’t figure out why. “My card times have hit a plateau,” I lamented.

MemoryTerry “I would recommend you check out the literature on speed typing,” he replied.

When people first learn to use a keyboard, they improve very quickly from sloppy single-finger pecking to careful two-handed typing, until eventually the fingers move effortlessly and the whole process becomes unconscious. At this point, most people’s typing skills stop progressing. They reach a plateau. If you think about it, it’s strange. We’ve always been told that practice makes perfect, and yet many people sit behind a keyboard for hours a day. So why don’t they just keeping getting better and better?

In the 1960s, the psychologists Paul Fitts and Michael Posner tried to answer this question by describing the three stages of acquiring a new skill. During the first phase, known as the cognitive phase, we intellectualize the task and discover new strategies to accomplish it more proficiently. During the second, the associative phase, we concentrate less, making fewer major errors, and become more efficient. Finally we reach what Fitts and Posner called the autonomous phase, when we’re as good as we need to be at the task and we basically run on autopilot. Most of the time that’s a good thing. The less we have to focus on the repetitive tasks of everyday life, the more we can concentrate on the stuff that really matters. You can actually see this phase shift take place in f.M.R.I.’s of subjects as they learn new tasks: the parts of the brain involved in conscious reasoning become less active, and other parts of the brain take over. You could call it the O.K. plateau.

Psychologists used to think that O.K. plateaus marked the upper bounds of innate ability. In his 1869 book “Hereditary Genius,” Sir Francis Galton argued that a person could improve at mental and physical activities until he hit a wall, which “he cannot by any education or exertion overpass.” In other words, the best we can do is simply the best we can do. But Ericsson and his colleagues have found over and over again that with the right kind of effort, that’s rarely the case. They believe that Galton’s wall often has much less to do with our innate limits than with what we consider an acceptable level of performance. They’ve found that top achievers typically follow the same general pattern. They develop strategies for keeping out of the autonomous stage by doing three things: focusing on their technique, staying goal-oriented and getting immediate feedback on their performance. Amateur musicians, for example, tend to spend their practice time playing music, whereas pros tend to work through tedious exercises or focus on difficult parts of pieces. Similarly, the best ice skaters spend more of their practice time trying jumps that they land less often, while lesser skaters work more on jumps they’ve already mastered. In other words, regular practice simply isn’t enough. For all of our griping over our failing memories — the misplaced keys, the forgotten name, the factoid stuck on the tip of the tongue — our biggest failing may be that we forget how rarely we forget.To improve, we have to be constantly pushing ourselves beyond where we think our limits lie and then pay attention to how and why we fail. That’s what I needed to do if I was going to improve my memory.

With typing, it’s relatively easy to get past the O.K. plateau. Psychologists have discovered that the most efficient method is to force yourself to type 10 to 20 percent faster than your comfort pace and to allow yourself to make mistakes. Only by watching yourself mistype at that faster speed can you figure out the obstacles that are slowing you down and overcome them. Ericsson suggested that I try the same thing with cards. He told me to find a metronome and to try to memorize a card every time it clicked. Once I figured out my limits, he instructed me to set the metronome 10 to 20 percent faster and keep trying at the quicker pace until I stopped making mistakes. Whenever I came across a card that was particularly troublesome, I was supposed to make a note of it and see if I could figure out why it was giving me cognitive hiccups. The technique worked, and within a couple days I was off the O.K. plateau, and my card times began falling again at a steady clip. Before long, I was committing entire decks to memory in just a few minutes."

I've never played with Omegle, but can you develop a reputation that will affect who gets matched with you, or is it just random? I guess I'm wondering if when you say "carving out a niche" you meant "creating a reputation" or something else.

These are very insightful, thank you for sharing this @mtlynch

@throwaway9917 and @invalidname -- thank you both for a fantastic example of civil disagreement and interesting conversation.

Super interesting, thank you. Isn't there some consequence for canceling?

Genocide is a term generally related to civilians. Hezbollah has been designated a terrorist organization by the USA.

The coordination and the intentional effort they made to disrupt and stop me was something I have never forgotten. This had a big effect on me, I thought of it's family, and how they were trying to protect it. Needless to say I have not shot another bird since.

That was the takeaway.

Your comment doesn't seem to describe you in a founder role, because founders don't do overtime. Whether or not it's healthy, and it often comes with a price, the entire concept is there's no separation (at least in the early days) between them and the company. They embody the company. So they aren't working hard or doing overtime, they're doing "whatever it takes". The grandparent concept is alluding to this different.

It feels a bit like terrorism vs. heart disease.

Fantastic analogy! One is scary but practically non-existent, and the other will bring early death to many people you know.

Females are often under-diagnosed with ADHD as well, the going theory being that males are more often hyperactive type and females inattentive (people can also have both characteristics). The boy running around the class being disruptive is more likely noticed than the girl always looking out the windown.

It did for me.

Creatine is awesome, but hair loss in men with male pattern baldness is frequently reported by myself and others in comments under all the "creatine is amazing no downsides" youtube posts and elsewhere. I've experienced it personally.

I'm not the person you're asking, but do the same thing, and for me I can usually find it visually by scrolling through "all photos" if it's recent, and sometimes using search in the photos app.

Great point, and when AI integration makes Siri useful, this might be a game changer for watches.

I've experienced this hair loss, and if you read the comments underneath most posts/videos about creatine, you'll find a lot of people chiming in with the same experience. If you don't have male pattern baldness though, seems you're fine.

Creatine seems acknowledged as working in the fitness community by both the bro-science and the science-based crowds.

For me, it worked very well, but I noticed I was losing hair in the shower (eep!) and stopped using it. Seems that's a thing for people with male pattern baldness. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Totally fair. A better criticism of the government's choice might be whether or not the trucker protest constituted a legitimate emergency.

The one who is both nice and kind. :P

That is an incredible picture, thank you.

That just sounds like the free market at work.

You might like this - ZeFrank's video on mantis shrimp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5FEj9U-CJM

Compared to most cancer-related findings, this seems clear, simple and easy to replicate / disprove. Hopefully quickly, as it'd be a huge win for humanity.

This isn't the place for that comment, nor is it substantiated by the data.

Fun read. My favorite line: "Six months later, in May 1984, Michael Larson sat beardily in the interview room for the Press Your Luck auditions in Hollywood."

Do you think the retrofit gas-to-EV conversions will help, as options there expand and improve?