Thank you for asking. Apologies, but I enjoy the anonymity here and am not looking to connect outside HN. Hope what I shared has been useful.

Video games are an excellent distraction to break up invasive thought patterns, too. There are several methods to use distractions that therapists tailor to their clients.

This is part of why I work in the games industry, grandstanding as it may sound. Games have helped me deal with complex PTSD at a point in my life. It is important to do the other work and not just rely on distraction as forever.

But distractions give you breathing room and some space away from invasive thoughts. The trauma can then begin to heal.

What’s the reference here? I feel like I’ve seen this before.

I mean only in the aggregate, only if you got a big community to do it or got picked up and amplified by a political leader. I can't think of any anonymous blog posts which changed the world. Movements like Anonymous have had an impact, but there's a more to that than online screeds. The closest analog might be Q, aka an anon like Ron Watkins, but that itself was swept up in a larger movement that pushed and pulled in all sorts of different directions.

To me the idea of kids posting on Internet forums and becoming major political leaders through their pseudonyms, through logical language like a modern-day version of the Federalist Papers, does seem pretty silly in 2024.

Thats great. The "I want to do everything on my phone" folk need to be told NO at some point. A somewhat cluttered but usable desktop interface cramped fully onto a tiny phone screen will have to much nested menu options to be able to discover things. I went into this dead end more often than I should have, wasted a lot of time until I finally started wondering what the hell I was thinking. The funniest was a long side menu next to a pdf. One could add all kinds of information and pick formatting and styling. On a phone you couldn't even see the pdf. Endless sub menus. Truly hilarious. I also one time build an advanced search interface with so many options it was.. uhh... completely unusable.