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I was forced to read this in freshman English… it was awful. Realized you could make it say whatever you want and used that for the essay I wrote

I work for Amazon.

Hahahahahahahahahaha no.

So many goddamn pointless meetings, approvals for everything, deployments, updates, planning meetings. Maybe I spent ~10 hour a week in meetings not counting the time that is lost waiting for a meeting to start and trying to get productive again after a meeting ends.

Tim Ferriss frequently talks about the writing class he took with John McPhee (author of Levels of the Game) and how as he took that class, the grades went up in the rest of his classes.

He says it’s probably due to refined thinking from taking the class.

I got diagnosed junior year of college, knowing sooner would’ve been very helpful.

Probably would’ve been more social in high school if I took meds because it probably would’ve been easier for me to complete homework, and I would have had more free time.

I think this is teaching a lot of people how much of work is BS.

Now that a lot of the distractions and meetings are gone lots of people are realizing they really only work a couple hours a day and spend the rest dicking around or stuck in pointless meetings.

Biggest issue for me is palpitations on adderall. Withdrawal gives me annoying palpitations and I get them sometimes while taking it.

It’s very annoying when I want to take the weekend off and have to suffer through massive withdrawal.

Honestly has changed my life for the better overall, but if anyone has any suggestions for trying to get rid of palpitations, it would be very much appreciated.