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Is a filet mignon, ground beef, or chick thighs processed? Sure. But i don't think that is what we're talking about here.
I think its more boring than that. Their platform was built by amateurs who didn't know what they were doing. Things like soft-deleting posts and auto-incrementing post IDs. This is why it was so easily crawled in a day before the shutdown.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/parle...
How about fast software?
To get fast software today. You're going to need some artists.
With depression, we might take medication to grant us a seat at the table of recovery via a therapist. The hope is to get off of that medication eventually. Perhaps the same holds true with ADD/ADHD? I am not a psychiatrist.
I've been wondering about this attention deficit and reading comprehension issue for awhile now. I would love to know how many of us adults actually read books anymore for longer than a thirty minute period? Any kind of book reading.
I like to think that I'm a somewhat experienced meditator by now. Having observed the mindfulness hype over the years I wonder if what people are really missing is just some silent focused time in general. If all you want is quieter mind, maybe you don't need a ten day silent retreat but just an hourlong reading session?
I know the topic has been beaten to death but it is an important one. This constant context switching between systems and devices who have been engineered to sap your impulse control and short-circuit your core reward system need to be investigated on a personal level. So it isn't just that you aren't doing those hourlong reading sessions in silence but that you're actively practicing a different kind of negative behavior.
This is just one uneducated person's opinion. If we're talking about a dysfunctional reward pathway would it not stand to reason that someone's gravitation toward systems who provide thousands of small immediate rewards only reinforce this dysfunction? Think video games, porn, and instagram. Juxtapose this with reading a novel, painting a picture, or finally understanding recursion. I feel kind of gross typing that out because it feels like some sort of appeal to nature but I can't shake it.
For me, this has been the defining struggle of my adult life. I've only just become truly aware of it though but when I think back to stuff like when I was a kid playing MMORPGs I would utterly struggle to make a character to level 10 before re-rolling for something more appealing.
Now it is almost a pathological issue I have where I just can't seem to choose something that interests me because honestly, everything is just as equally interesting. Painting, guitar, cooking, lifting, game development, ios development, etc. Its like paralysis by analysis to the nth degree. It's easy to say "just try some things and stick with what you enjoy" but eventually the going gets (slightly) tough and i just wimp out and quit. Except for lifting...for whatever reason I've been obsessed with that for almost a decade now.
I realize what an elitist knob this makes me sound like but I decry all of this because I've been there before and made the same mistakes. I like your example because you mention a specific issue you had that you then went on to fix. I know of many who train this way when they have no ailments whatsoever.
In this thread I've seen people recommending yoga, stretching "tight muscles", the McKenzie method, the McGill book, and stretches. I've only seen a couple of mentions of actual training. Sad state of affairs.
I urge anyone dealing with back pain to watch this video, there is a part 2 as well. It isn't short but hey, that's a complex topic for you. Deconditioning yourself from fragility and fear-mongering prevalent around this topic is very important. Even those that mean well do it without realizing it.
Too much of anything is bound to cause complications.
I'll be a year sober next month.
R&R can be almost anything, but don't make it look like work and certainly don't do it because you think it'll make you a better capitalist.
I used to look down on all of these summary companies and stuff like Blinkist but i totally get it now. People aren’t too lazy to read this stuff, it’s just not very important that you understand all of the filler.
Also. It’s quite telling whenever these kinds of speed reading goal setting articles get made they’re almost always using self help books. That works because of the points above. No one is ever speed reading War and Peace or East of Eden.
https://pragmaticstudio.com/courses/unpacked-full-stack-grap...
These have been my go-to that seem to fit what you're describing. I hope this helps.
Sam Harris's app is the only one i find actually valuable because he frequently releases 5 to 30 minute "lessons" that are audio of him teaching some aspect of meditation or purpose. Talks on death, gratitude, the goal of meditation, thought experiments, etc. I don't do his 30 day guided meditations that are also in the app, but I'm sure they'd benefit some people.
The pros with Sam's app is that he is going to give you a unique experience and ask you to "look for things" in your meditation that might otherwise take you years to realize you should be looking for.
The con is the same with all guided meditations. An app can't tell what level of concentration you happen to be at during your 30 minute sit, and so it often interrupts you just as you're making some real progress.