Fortune favours the brave!

just a whole bunch of cranes trying to lift themselves

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one of the most insane things about our society right now has to be that someone can come out and say “the goal is to create the most addicting thing” and expect praise for it :/

We have been primed for this

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here's a stupid meme that might explain my post

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I never recognised web 2.0 because my first encounter with it was a PM walking up to my desk and asking if I could code in web 2.0

wot?

you would give any website your credit card details just for authentication?

It's interesting but maybe my original message was a bit vague. I shouldn't say anything about my adderall experiences without clearly stating that it was my experience. I've never felt like the medicine had a hold on me. I moved to France 7 years ago and it's not legal here, so I've used less potent alternatives without issue.

My main point was that the desired outcome when I agreed to take the first prescription was focus and it certainly delivered that. For me, it delivered something that feels like a binary interpretation of what focus is. It's on or off, and when it's on it can't be turned off. Which is very different from my interpretation of evolutionary focus which does a great job of filtering for distractions worth paying attention to.

With that in mind, my indicator for usage being problematic would be if it were frequently taken without a clear need to get something done.

I haven’t read it all yet, but so far he doesn’t seem to recognise the diminishing returns of increasing focus. It took about a year of it before I realised I was regretting things I’d spent days on because I was too focus blocked.

It’s an aspect of medicated adhd that always makes me feel like I’m in simulated focus. Last thing I would expect to be beneficial to someone with healthy ability to stay on task.

Though I’ve not read anything else of his. So could be his regular bravado. Or he could be on a permanent adderall bender.

It reads like adderall bravado to me. From the beginning where he’s confident that his patient’s colleagues are already on it.

This was definitely written on an adderall bender.

Hope the VCs are ready for a wave of survivalist tech product pitches

Is it possible to move posts if you mod both?

sorry reminds me of this particular billboard ad that ran in Sydney. Just couldn’t make my brain interpret the “how did I get here?” in the positive sense they intended. Even the look on the girls face… it’s like sadness in her eyes. Anyway, there you go *removed externally hosted image*

I’m gonna give you a point for saying product instead of technology. Think about that if you like. Or not. I don’t fucken caaarrreee

As someone who went from high school directly into a publishing company as a “web designer” in 1998 I spent the next 20 years assuming that academic work was completely uninfluenced by commercial interests. HCI was academic, UX was commercial. Wasn’t till around 2019 that I started reading ACM papers about HCI from the 70s up. Fuck me was I surprised with how mixed up it all is. ACM interactions magazine published monthly case studies for Apple or did profiles on Jef Raskin talking about HCI for brand loyalty.

Anyway. Point is a published paper doesn’t mean shit if you just read a few because an article pointed you to them. I don’t know. This thread sucks

Orion’s Arm

fucken wish I didn't google that

not a joke btw. literal plot of Prey which he followed with his climate change denial book State of Fear

but nanomachines don’t work like that at all, it’s just a lazy soft sci-fi idea that gets taken way too seriously by folks who are mediocre at best at understanding science

Let's call this Crichtonitis.