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Get plenty of sleep the night before, try to get some form of aerobic exercise daily, start working on whatever task you need to focus on within 30 minutes of dosing (ideally before), stay hydrated, turn off notifications on your phone and block addictive sites, wear noise cancelling headphones. If you're going to listen to music have it on random shuffle so that you don't have to break focus to change the music yourself.

This is wrong, studies have shown that ADHD brains are fundamentally different from non-ADHD brains in the sense that they have reduced frontal lobe (read: executive functioning, ie. cognitive inhibition, working memory, decision making) matter.

I was diagnosed in 2019 after a long series of conversations with a therapist following a work disaster that nearly cost me my job. Getting diagnosed was like finding the missing piece of the puzzle regarding my life. My schooling history suddenly made sense, the poor financial decisions, etc. everything became clear.

The biggest thing I realized is how tightening feedback loops is the key to my productivity, I gravitated towards python because it's interpreted nature meant I could get feedback on my code in 20 seconds max as opposed to 3-5 minutes waiting for my code to build.

Adderall is a help but is not a cure all, it took me months to learn how to use it right, at first Adderall just fueled my ADHD and made everything worse. It's a constant struggle and maladaptive perfectionism is still the one thing I struggle with the most. I can't count the times of I've completed reverted my git sandbox to start from scratch after reaching a certain frustration level with code.

AUMF doesnt authorize any of the operations going on in Africa. From the ouster of the Libyan leader which has led to a brutal civil war to operations in the Sahel region fighting various smaller terrorist groups.

I'm not exactly sure when it started but I've been amazed at how weak Congress is. Presidents are basically conducting war without Congressional approval, signing 'trade deals', vast executive orders, etc. all while Congress twiddle their thumbs. The judiciary and executive have way more power than Congress right now.

Cynical view: the laws passed in the mid 20th century to lock out black and brown folks from homeownership are now starting to affect white people. Sprinkle historically low interest rates and you have the modern day housing market.

I'm surprised at this sentiment. The other major auto makers have had at least 5 years now to show what they can do in regards to developing EVs and the results are not good.

Nissan's leaf is a solid car but with the recent departure of Ghosn the future is in doubt. Many of the American auto makers are still focused on squeezing as much as they can from SUVs and don't inspire confidence that they will be able to produce a quality vehicle to threaten Tesla's potential customer base.

The limited (read luxury) SKUs, word of mouth, and differentiated software give Tesla a distinct advantage over traditional autos. In the past it was viable to worry about execution but with the new gigafactory and China expansion underway , coupled with recent sales figures it's difficult to bet against them.

Interesting that the labor culture in Germany relative to the rest of the EU is not mentioned at all. Germany is one of the strongest nations to be an industrial worker and has various laws that are pretty unique to the nation, such as co-determination, I believe this has acted as a defense vs. outsourcing (and when they do outsource, they go to high cost places such as the US) and has kept it's manufacturing base strong.

Is the noise cancelling better on AirPods than QC35s?

A key point for me in regarding big tech monopoly parts is that some of the biggest companies, when viewed from a potential market cap perspective, are possibly worth less than the sum of it's parts.

Facebook has a market-cap of ~630B. Individually you could easily see how an independent Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp would be worth more. AWS is probably the most valuable company in the world but is tucked away with the P&L of the various other parts of Amazon.

This seems like a really long argument just to end up at the main point being: "It really is sexism". The light bulb moment here is that it's not necessarily sexism on an individual level but on an institutional one.

I believe there is an obvious difference men and women which, on a general level, incites women to weigh family responsibilities over career prospects. However, industrialized nations exacerbate that difference by making it very difficult for women with children to spend the time necessary for career advancement.

The key here isn't necessarily throwing your hands up and saying there's nothing you can do about it, but more robust programs for parents to help lessen the load of parenthood.

This is ridiculous. U.S troops (along with other coalition nations) are in Iraq at the request of the Iraqi government. If the Iraqi government formally requests us to leave, we should do so. Threatening to freeze their account otherwise is mob mentality.

A start-up at the intersection of 'developer tools' and 'NoCode' would be very exciting to me. I'd love to see tools that reflect some of the principles outlined in Bret Victor's blog.

http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/ http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/

I don't remember his name, but he was my history / home room teacher in 7th grade. In terms of pedagogy he was pretty good, probably not the best. But I'll always remember him for being the first black male teacher I ever had. Previously my teachers were all white women. It really meant something to have someone who looked like me in that position of authority. I even considered becoming a teacher before coming to my senses. ;)

Tulsi Gabbard on Joe Rogan. I don't agree with her on everything but listening to her ideas on US policy was a like getting into a plunge pool.

Really tired of the lazy trend in journalism where you find 2-3 "eccentric" software developers and label their lifestyle as a SV trend.

A lot of them are on disability or in jail.

There is a huge problem with legislating in this country. Studies have shown that on the state level a large portion of laws passed are identical to model legislation proposed by think tanks and advocacy groups.

The 2017 tax bill was massive in regards to page length but had no debate and was passed without enough time for legislators to seriously read it and provide amendments. The same issue is happening with USMCA.

Journalists are pissed on Twitter and for good reason, but I hope the lesson here is that shotgun legislation is not the way to write bills. It's trendy to complain about how long it takes to get bills passed but this is the result of going too far in the other direction.

It's a punishing leak. Akin to publicizing the pull out dates of troops. Amazon and Microsoft will sit tight and enjoy their duopoly.

I interviewed at Google last week and asked 3 of my interviewers if the constant churn of bad news from the outside gets to them.

For the most part, no one seemed concerned and the biggest complaint was regarding leaks which make it harder to deal with issues internally and threaten transparency.

Why? An economy needs people to grow, how can you fund universal programs like this without tax revenue to find it.

NAFTA was a larger contributor to deindustralization than technological advancement but technology will be on of the leading causes of 'loss of jobs' going forward. What Yang doesn't account for is the dynamism of the American economy to create new jobs.

UBI is a solid idea that could be more easily realized in the US through expansions of the EITC and child credits.

Solid idea, I wonder about what type of scale makes an entire kitchen facility viable. I've known many chefs who were able to make a small catering career with under 5 employees, does a cloud kitchen help them out or are they better off cooking out of the home and/or a food cart?

Generally think political ads on these platforms is an overblown issue, but one that it would be smart for these companies to nip in the bud.

Most people still get their news through traditional channels, I genuinely feel that a lot of the ink spilled by media companies on tech is a backlash to the loss of ad revenue. That being said the scrutiny is required.

Interesting because there is a recent tiktok meme going around about being socially accepted (people coming out to their parents, romantic insecurities, teenage pregnancy, etc.) and its really heartwarming and endearing. One thing I've noticed about the younger generation is they definitely seem less harsh when it comes to bullying in general then my generation (I'm 28) at the same age. Although the individual cases of bullying seem more intense.

It's definitely overstated but I do think it exists particularly within social media where everything is public but the social bonds are weak.

The schadenfreude that occurs when someone tries to 'cancel' another person on social media, only for them to be 'cancelled' for their own previously uncovered misdeeds is pretty pleasing. [O]

Unfortunately I think this is reflective of our society. With social media, there is little room for growth, acknowledgement of mistakes, and understand. You're either with the crowd or not. It's a big reason why I've removed myself from social media. Glass houses everywhere.

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But we're talking about the county as a whole.

Abstractly, the question at hand is this: is a retailer that sells its own in house brand anticompetitive due to the information it has on potential competitor sales?

Other large retailers: Target, Walmart, etc. have a higher percentage of in house brands for sale than Amazon. So on this argument going after Amazon means you need to decouple retailers from in house brands across the board.

Even the concern about search placement has concerns, as shelf space in the store can be viewed as a analogous to search pages.

Honestly, glass simply seems too early. We know that Apple is also working on AR glasses, even Intel came out with a AR glasses platform but quickly had to kill it because the market is simply not mature.

I think Google is betting that cloud steaming is now viable and are going to put as much resources as possible to make it work.

I am not doubting that there are issues with the product and concerns about Google, I obviously have reservations but don't believe that it hinders me from being excited about the prospect itself