Great, and I just recently move from Pocket a couple of months ago because I love how clean Omnivore is. Seems you can't escape the impermanence of digital life, so certain that it even rival death and taxes.
Funny how HN always find a way to be critical on virtually EVERYTHING. :p
I think it's brilliant site, you visit the site or share it with someone, read the text, it make you feel grounded and even spark something inside you that you forget in the busy day.
Walking is cool, but it's definitely different from be still and doing nothing. Sometimes you go to walk, but your mind still racing from all the things that you want to escape, which doesn't help at all, because the point of all this is doing NOTHING, yes, even daydreaming. Your just lightly aware of your mind and self in the now, and that's all, no thought, just like meditation.
I think it's delightful(and maybe that influence me not to cancel the sub, because it's too cute? maybe..) Personally I think it's just normal-mildly-manipulative marketing trick and that's all. If we're talking about real dark pattern, there are much more malicious examples than this one out there...
For me, what help a lot is reframing feedback, whatever it is, as opportunity for learning, and not something you need to fear, ashamed, or get rid of(to keep face) Embrace it. See it with the eyes of curiosity, and not fear.
Still do your best, yes, but not overly anxious about things you can't control, e.g. what people think.
It's so relatable, especially after learning that I might have an ADHD condition. I also learned that it's linked to perfectionism and procrastination, traits that have defined me all my life.
I'm still somewhat of a perfectionist, an old habit, but I'm now much more aware that a quick feedback loop and shipping things are far more valuable than perfect, over-optimized work. People may love such work, but it's often overkill and involves too many unnecessary hours of effort.
It could be, yeah, like many things, I guess — gluten, hormones, etc.
Maybe we'll find out later that all of this is just some big mass hallucination we all try to believe in order to cope with today's horrible work life. Though, for me, the symptoms described are so accurate it's scary, and they explain my lifelong struggles — it's a revelation, really. It provides a glimpse of the signposts I can look for when I need help.
I'll also keep in mind that any concept we have about ADHD now can also change when we have more evidence (or not), but I'm subscribed to it for now.
It's basically pomodoro, but with different way to visualize about it, and it somehow feels...better? At least for my ADHD brain. The author wrote blogs for years, and just diagnosed with ADHD a couple years ago, and somehow his lifelong struggle suddenly explainable(you know, like many of us ADHDer did)
That aside, his blog is usually a joy to read.
This is my go to method. Write/vent it down somewhere(privately) and just forget about it(you usually feels much better after write it down anyway)
I often found that the things in my head that I got so worked up a week ago is just mostly my made up thought.
