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It depends on what kind of risk you are taking and when you decide its time to throw in the towel, and many other factors.
There are very few blog posts about those guys. Its the same with people who study 100% more than everybody else to pass a class but still fail.
You hear about those who made it thru, but never the ones who did not have the capacity for their goal.
Its up to you to know where you stand in this and what you want to sacrifice.
But always remember, romanticizing hard work only does good for society but very rarely for the individual.
My other friend also have visual snow and a constant dulling of his mind.
They did not take big doses and never had major problems before this.
One friend of mine had it for 6months and was lucky that it passed away, the two others are in a living hell and will never have a normal life again.
I know its supposed to be rare, but the amount of people i read of having some form of it is too many for me to believe that there are a hidden majority of users that has gotten it and wont report for various reasons.
I also trust the company, but this trust is soley based on my feelings.
Making most business software will be as easy as installing Wordpress with plugins today.
I once was a gym bro who believed that deadlift and barbell squats where like the only thing you should do in the gym.
Until i blew my back really hard, doing squats following the 5x5 strong lift program. I really regret that now because it ruined so much for me. I now have constant pain in my back and i cannot do the sports that i truly love doing (boxing and bjj) like i used to.
Now i have a much different view on the gym. I use machines to a greater extent and i focus more on training for health than lifting heavy barbells.
The productivity boost of quickly making forms and only coding the button actions is unmatched. No "RAD" web framework on the web is anything near that.
Only weird sysadmin geeks seems to believe there is any real value in using some "workstation" with a custom cpu and os.
They are mostly a tool to solve problems, mostly problems that can generate revenue for smart business minded people.
Why should i learn howto setup a raspberry pi with a bunch of stuff, when i can just buy commercial products thats does the same things and much better?
If i dont want to create something unique thats not on the market of course. But then i use up all my thinking and creativity at work and i have run out of ideas to create truly unique things.
Also the time it takes to learn and make things is too valuable for me, i rather spend that time on interacting with other people.
Things used to be more of a mystery for me and learning would always seem like an way to open things up. There also was a naive undertone of a feeling that the things i am learning will greatly benefit me work wise or that learning howto solder on a mod-chip on a ps1 would make me smarter.
I now view learning much more differently and i find many subjects really boring to learn and not useful at all.
I also know my limits and abilities now when i am 30 much better than when i was 13-25. Before i felt like there was a chance i could be really good at learning something, or that i had some hidden abilities yet to be discovered. But i no know way too well thats not the case.
I much more enjoy simpel things in life now, like eating good food and being with friends. The fire of learning has left me, maybe a bit too early(30) but i already know enough to live the life i want.
People give computer and os branding too much importance, this is a non issue.
I more and more realise that my brain and personality is not the kind that is made for desk work. I find it boring and difficult.
I have done other types of works that suits me better i beleive my life would be so much better if i just accepted that i was never to be sitting at a desk solving problems.
School has always been difficult for me, simply because it hard to learn the things you need to learn in shcool, for more intelligent individuals school is not the same big deal as it is for me. But thats just the way things is. The same way i was not born 2meter tall and an musculuar body.
I beleive that we will see more and more ADD/ADHD diagnosies in the future, simply because automation puts more demands on the individual and the jobs will be more mentally demanding.
I see a future where meds like adderal will be availble in the supermarkets.
Instead of giving people ADD/ADHD diagnosises we should just teach people to accept that not everyone are made for mentally demanding tasks and that not everyone goes thru school without it being a huge difficult task. Parents also needs to learn that their kids might not will be able to compete in the job markets in the future and the solution is not to medicate it away.
Am enjoying the nostalgia quite a bit :)