mblake
It happened the most while attempting to study research papers.
A lot of times I would be unable to finish reading what I had planned, because I had stumbled upon an interestingly-looking concept and then proceeded opening up another paper on that subject and so on.
And then, of course, having returned back to the original paper, I would have to re-start reading from beginning to freshen up my memory.
Terribly exhausting process, so I can perfectly understand your frustration.
The only solution I found was to un-clutter my computer 'work-space' as much as possible: close any non-essential apps, unplug internet cable and each time I have the urge to stop reading and go research a newly discovered subject, I remind myself that I am only allowed to do it after finishing what I'm currently reading.
Another helpful thing for me is to remind myself what I'm trying to accomplish with whatever I'm doing at that particular time and what my long-term goals are.
For instance, if I'm working on a project for a client, the goal is to get the work done as soon as possible and obviously get paid. I am not working on said project to primarily enrich my knowledge, but to make money.
I can use the time after the project is delivered to draw conclusions from the experience or do further research.
This may sound trivial, but it really does help to constantly remind yourself of what your goals are, it keeps you in check.
For extra effect, every time you have the urge to let your mind wander too much, try imagining the possible consequences of not completing your task (on time).
This can be particularly effective if you're doing client work. Imagine how embarrassing/unprofessional would have to explain to your client/employer that you won't be able to deliver on time because of something that you could've prevented.
Side-note: you have not provided enough info, but you may have obsessive-compulsive disorder, which is nothing to be ashamed of, but you can only 'solve' this with medication, so you would need to see a doctor.
I was in mourning after losing a relative and refused to participate in an overtly cheerful activity.Not only was I reprimanded for it, but later heard the professor felt the need to complain to other people as well about yet another kid 'whos grandma had died'. It just so happened that my grandma had not died, nor would have I cared much if she would've had, but a much more cared for relative.
Thankfully it was quite a lot of years ago.
It's sad because he clearly had a psychiatric issue and only if people were more educated on this matter, they could've reached out to him and offered him help to get his problem under control, instead of just laughing at him.
To an uninformed, uneducated person, it's likely that this is all he was: a pathetic, over the top compulsive liar.
I presume he died because he killed himself, which is something someone would do after at least temporarily snapping out of the psychosis that made them do all of those things and realizing it wasn't something they would ever be able to take back or sweep under the rug, thanks to the 'wonders' of the internet.
I feel like I can't be the only one who does this.
I thought of using CrazyEgg in a few situations myself, but I think it would not work well if there would be more visitors behaving like I would than they presumably have anticipated.
PS: Nice work on Sipsmith!
I've also used Name.com, but not enough to be able to recommend it to someone else.
A simple direct message on Twitter: 'hey, that's not supposed to be public, can you take it down please? and delete your tweet too.'
Simple and I can't imagine she would've been denied the request, for the very same reason, that she's a Zuckerberg.
Disregarding the sheer immaturity of the approach and inappropriateness in a work-related context, I had a good amount of laughs over it with one of the company's bosses.
You will not have such issues with them.
Actually, let me re-phrase, what is the biggest problem he's facing?
I see that most of his visitors are from Asia, then why not reach out to Alipay payment processor? I am not overtly familiar with them, but maybe they have a cheap payment-by-sms product or similar (where users could pay a small price using their phone via txt message).
It is a very popular payment method in some areas of the globe for micro-payments.
Statistics, Probability, Data Analysis, Data Mining, Decision Theory, (Digital) Signal Analysis, Machine Learning, Algorithmics, Graph Theory etc.
I've almost finished reading it and I can pretty much guarantee that it would've taken me a lot more time to navigate through your blog and make myself read beginning to end.
I think the new blog posts that were added to the book serve as an incentive to buy it, probably a lot of the HN users were already familiar with Patrick and might've needed a little 'push' to click on the purchase button :) Just one of the possible reasons.