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audiometry commented on Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?    · Posted by u/meridion
jerrygoyal · 8 months ago
I am also diagnosed with ADHD. I can't change my brain chemistry so I've come to the conclusion that if dopamine driven activities is what keeps me going then so be it. Instead of fighting it, I welcome it. ymmv.
audiometry · 8 months ago
Yeah this was exactly my conclusion too. And it enabled me to give up things that I wasn’t good at, couldn’t consistently practice, and felt as tremendous burdens. (Namely music and foreign languages). They just don’t stimulate me enough to be able to consistently practice as much as is required for mastery. Unlike jumping a bike which I can do for hours on end. Wish I could play music better and speak Japanese, but I can’t and I finally realized I never would for fundamental chemistry reasons

All these suggestions about different or better planning programs or habit forming things etc…. They have an efficacy that last six weeks, then wears off, and they themselves become another shameful burden.

And yes methylphenidate helps.

audiometry commented on Show HN: AI Personal assistant for ADHD minds   hyperaide.com... · Posted by u/iJohnPaul
audiometry · a year ago
Yuck. These “helpful systems” (of all flavors) inevitably, whether it’s a day or six weeks, become just another nagging burden to become averse to.

And using examples like “cleaning the kitchen” is insulting. Not everyone with ADHD is a low-functioning sub-normal…

I doubt the author of this has ADHD.

audiometry commented on Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia   ox.ac.uk/news/2024-06-07-... · Posted by u/geox
audiometry · a year ago
Would cialis likely have the same benefits?
audiometry commented on The free soloist who fell to earth   outsideonline.com/outdoor... · Posted by u/gmays
audiometry · 2 years ago
This long form writing style where the author has to inject his own story as a secondary/support narrative gets really tedious. You could edit all of it out and the story would be sustained.
audiometry commented on Japan Has Millions of Empty Houses. Want to Buy One for $25,000?   nytimes.com/2023/04/17/re... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
audiometry · 2 years ago
This story appears almost annually in the NYTimes I feel. Or at least it appears on HN annually, cited from some large media. I wonder why by this point I’d think everyone has heard the standard rebuttals/clarifications.
audiometry commented on James Niehues Ski Map Artist   jamesniehues.com/... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Aardwolf · 2 years ago
Nice maps, but semi off topic question about the website:

If I scroll down to continue reading, some thing slides in from the bottom right to sign up for newsletter. That basically makes me just close the tab and not care anymore.

I assume whoever runs this website gets more income out of having this thing slide in than not have it exist.

But at least myself close the website because of it. Is my brain wired so differently from other people? Does the thing that slides in make most people interact more with the website, instead of less like me?

At least if most people dislike it, like me, I can't imagine they'd gain more income from making this slide-in thing. Or is there only a tiny percentage of people that like it, and just that tiny percentage gives so much income to the website that the other 99% all have to suffer?

audiometry · 2 years ago
Yes. And oh and it’s an online store except there are no prices. Just turns into a submission form to contact the artist. (At least for the originals.). Forget it.
audiometry commented on Neuralink transported brain implants covered in pathogens, group alleges   arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/rurp
colechristensen · 3 years ago
It’s not fictional. If there are degrees of awareness, a pig is much more aware than a rat.
audiometry · 3 years ago
How will you or anyone ever be able to know this… just because you cannot perceive it, you assume it cannot exist?
audiometry commented on Fewer people are creating new podcasts these days   philsiarri.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/finphil
bastawhiz · 3 years ago
It's more than that, though. I own a podcast hosting service that Apple lists on their page of recommended services. Fewer people were starting podcasts in 2021 and 2022 than they were in 2019 and 2018 (it's hard to say before then, because my business has grown). The world, on the whole, lost a lot of interest in podcasting.

Part of that is a lack of a focus on podcasting. Serial drove a lot of interest, and that momentum faded with no obvious replacement. Podcasts were something folks made time for on their commutes and during their workouts. When folks started working from home en masse, they had less and less reason to listen.

Listenership fell for shows that have remained consistent. Some of my biggest customers have half or less than the number of listens they were pulling per week in 2019. And that's without changing cadence.

audiometry · 3 years ago
I wonder how they count this? I use overcast app. It automatically downloads episodes of anything I’m subscribed to. But I migh not listen to it. Or I might listen to five minutes and delete. What level of truth do these podcast stats catch?
audiometry commented on Fewer people are creating new podcasts these days   philsiarri.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/finphil
tshaddox · 3 years ago
Isn’t that like, an extremely narrow subset of podcasts you’re talking about? Like basically just the longevity+psychedelics+stand-up comedy podcast circle? I don’t see any of those guests on my movie and TV podcasts, for instance.
audiometry · 3 years ago
He also has appeared twice on The Nine Club, a skateboarding podcast.
audiometry commented on Ask HN: What would you learn if you would have three to six months free time?    · Posted by u/moitessier
jbgt · 3 years ago
Go to Japan and take an intensive japanese course. Yamasa Institute in Okazaki is a great school.
audiometry · 3 years ago
Why do you specify that one in particular? There are so many there. Don’t know how to separate good from the bad.

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