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Stream of Consciousness
Short posts on random thoughts and things I notice in the world. This is my own Twitter (RIP). For medium to long form posts, visit the blog.
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New bitter-old-man rule: I don’t open any YouTube video recommendation that has a cryptic baity title and/or thumbnail, period.
We’re turning into gullible children. I won’t have that, fuck you very much.
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This is a good week. I came back from my trip to Chihuahua to find two new records at my door: Papota by CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso and Thank You, by Mike D.
The first one already shows wear marks on my Apple Music account. The second one fills me with joy: it's the first new thing related to Beastie Boys to arrive in many, many years (excluding the half-assed documentary, that is).
It's also Apple Event week, and my kids arrived home today. Not much else I can ask for right now.
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That was a hell of a routine break. Now I just need a leg massage and an Ibuprofen.
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Ping?
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Last week my psychiatrist switched me from methylphenidate to Vyvanse (lisdexamfetamine). I was on high dosage of methylphenidate without much effect. I basically planned my work day around the couple of hours right after the pills.
Vyvanse though... oh shit. I'm focusing so hard on things. I'm undistracted, I monotask like never before, and I'm always in a good mood (partially because of the stimulant effects, partially because I. am. getting. so. much. done.)
Anyway, I wanted to share. If you have ADHD, take your meds. If they don't work, tell your doctor.
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Marking the moment: this is the first federated post from axel.mx as a fediverse server. Turns out it wasn't, but this site is now a part of the fediverse (!).Follow at site@axel.mx in Mastodon :)This website is not being federated as their own fediverse entity anymore. Lesson learned.
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I trust Apple a bit more than Google. Not because Apple is a charity, but because their business model is selling me hardware, not selling my behaviour. Google's incentive is to watch me, Apple's incentive is to upsell me. I prefer the latter.
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As a general rule, computers are much faster and much dumber than people think they are. They mostly just fake being smart by being dumb really fast.
I don't know where I got that quote from, but I found it in my ephemeral notes today and made me chuckle :).
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On ADHD and productivity:
Most productivity advice is built for neurotypical brains. Linear. One thing at a time. Sit down, focus, finish.
That’s not how my brain works. My brain is parallel, associative, pattern-matching, constantly firing. It’s not broken. It’s just running different software.Siddhi Mittal, How I Made ADHD My Superpower
This reminds me of that time where everyone used windows and, as a mac user, following a tutorial for anything required translation, adaptation, and searching for equivalences. And most of the time it didn't work anyway.