Re:Ask HN: What things has tech made worse in your life?
by rg111 on Friday December 10, 2021 @02:08PM
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I also started thinking if I had ADHD, but I still have one good habit surviving from single-digit age- reading books.
Despite everything, I manage to read 25-30 books each year.
And these books are always either very long novels or non-trivial, high-quality non-fiction.
I also manage to get immediate works done through time-blocking, and pomodoro (don't need pomodoro for stuff I really like).
But these techniques don't save you from being "reactive"- doing stuff that is needed right in the moment, and nothing else- behaving like primitive animals.
I can get hard, intensive work done, read books, learn hard concepts, but still lack very seriously in long-term action-taking (used to be good at this before).
Despite everything, I manage to read 25-30 books each year.
And these books are always either very long novels or non-trivial, high-quality non-fiction.
I also manage to get immediate works done through time-blocking, and pomodoro (don't need pomodoro for stuff I really like).
But these techniques don't save you from being "reactive"- doing stuff that is needed right in the moment, and nothing else- behaving like primitive animals.
I can get hard, intensive work done, read books, learn hard concepts, but still lack very seriously in long-term action-taking (used to be good at this before).
Trying to solve these.