What about standups? Are you implying that having to be somewhere at a certain time in the morning impedes your ability to go to sleep at a reasonable time so you can get a healthy amount of sleep?
Yes. Isn't that obvious? Everyone has different natural sleep patterns, some have later cronotypes. Meetings set too early in the day for your body's preferred time to be asleep will result in having to wake up with an alarm to attend them.
My team moved our daily standup later in the day to accommodate my delayed sleep phase and it's been extremely helpful to getting a full night's uninterrupted sleep.
There you go moralizing about acceptable patterns of sleep.
Crepuscular and nocturnal predators require tribes of humans to have some number of members who are tuned to be either awake before sunrise or awake long after sunset. Without people with genes to go bed late and wake up late we wouldn't be here having this conversation.
In modern society the former are lionized and the latter are villified as making bad choices.
I can pick when I go to sleep and wake, I've worked 3rd shift, 9 - 5 and resturant hours with no issue.
Wouldn't a tribe that is able to do as I can have the greatest evolutionary advantage and thus outcompete the tribes requiring specialization like you describe?
Unfortunately, not everyone has quite the same natural flexibility you describe. "Shift worker syndrome" has been known for decades, though a fortunate subset of people just seem immune.
Lucky you. Whatever I do, if I'm forced to be out of bed before 8 AM, I'm going to be completely useless for few days. Usually I wake up around 9:30 to get good sleep. And whatever I do, I'm simply unable to go sleep earlier than midnight, even if I lay down, I just can't sleep for hours. It's 0:29 where I live and I'm just turning on Netflix after a failed try at sleeping - even though I'm pretty tired as I didn't sleep enough yesterday.
I know that any code I write before around 9:45 in the morning will be seen as regrettable and rewritten at some point in the next few days. So the earlier I sit down to write code the more rework there will be. This is somewhat less true if my adrenaline is high from being smacked with production issues first thing in the morning, but adrenaline is not a sustainable strategy.
I am not aware of any mode of watching Netflix that is constrained to 15 minutes.
"Trying" to sleep is also doomed to failure, of course.
Personally, what works best for me is modeling solutions to issues in projects (work or otherwise).
I originally tried this, hoping for the benefit of "sleeping on a problem". I don't think it's been particularly successful for that (though it could be subtly so, I guess), but it has about a 90% success rate for inducing sleep within 15 minutes. :)
My solution and yours might be the same thing (distraction from the goal of sleep), but I'd worry about the stimulation of video, the light from the screen, disturbing partners, etc. And also that I might get interested, and stay up for hours instead (this is my failure mode for reading before sleep).
Thinking about projects prevents me from sleeping. It's the surest way to keep me up with my mind racing for a few more hours. If it works for you, great!
The "mode" for watching Netflix for 15 minutes is turn it on, watch for 15 minutes, turn it off. I won't claim it works for everyone, but it does help settle my mind at night.
The same traits that make me good at emergency situations and deep work make me lousy for early bedtime. I have some coping mechanisms now but there were years where I had to go to bed exhausted to get to sleep. And some days that’s 10:30, others that’s 2:30.
I’m not sure if there’s another word besides “patriotism”, but there certainly is a sense of continental pride amongst many (especially western) Europeans that mimics what American’s have for their nation (and not, e.g., their state [Texans aside])
Lets be real, there's no other country that has the same amount of patriotism than the US (for better or worse). You have kids in school "pledge allegiance" to a flag each morning. The only other countries comparable on that level are China, Russia, and North Korea - and they're not exactly doing it out of free will.
A more apt comparison would be how Americans feel towards their president. Most like them, others dislike them, but overall they're proud to have them. They're there in tough times and easy to blame when something doesn't go their way.
I like Ayn Rand as much as the next HN consumer, but let’s be a bit more judicious in how we apply her ideals.
If you earned your wealth through driving on public roads, after receiving a public education, without it actually being blatantly stolen due to a public police force, etc etc etc.
Then it is also your responsibility to pay for these items so that they dan continue to be used for future generation.
If you're in eternal debt to the society you were fortunate or unfortunate enough to be born into since before you were lucid, when exactly is the cycle going to be broken?
Public roads can be taxed by use. Public education should be paid by people who participate.
You apply an "if" conditional here in a manner that's morally correct in my opinion. It's just that even if you didn't partake in those activities, you're forced to pay for them all the same. That's the issue.
You can move out of the country of course and find one that's more politically suitable, but the bottom line in my mind is that people in most societies are so different from each other that democracy just doesn't work at the scale it's trying to be applied. Sure, deciding what your society should collectively strive for at a neighborhood level might be possible. City level is reaching, and state or country level is ludicrous.
I think the only responsibility at the federal level should be watching the borders, and I can't convince myself otherwise no matter what material I read.
> If you're in eternal debt to the society you were fortunate or unfortunate enough to be born into since before you were lucid, when exactly is the cycle going to be broken?
Never. No human being has ever thrived in total isolation, and no one’s accomplishments are solely their own. You may not like it, but you are unavoidably part of a society (even if you move into the wilderness and never interact with another person again, you were still raised in one). You wouldn’t have been able to gather whatever resources you’ve managed to amass without that society, and in return it requires you to share the burden of helping everyone else thrive as well.
I have not overcome them. Currently on dexamphetamine, my partner has noticed an improvement, me less so. Have been productive for the last week or two so making the most of it.
List making, planning, routines, and pretty much anything that follows someone saying "You just need to ..." Doesn't work for me, or for any of the other ADHD sufferers I know of.
I wouldn't say I've overcome anything either but I'll throw in my two cents.
Personally I have accepted a.) most of my projects will be unfinished when I die and b.) if I am just staring at an empty terminal session and nothing is happening, it's not going to help to heap abuse on myself and feel guilty for not being productive. The only path forward will involve accepting that work isn't happening and doing whatever it is I can find a spoon for. On really bad days, that means just going to sleep. The sooner I accept that the sooner I will find a way to the other side, and nothing is getting done before then.
Reading about Taoism and Zen has helped. In terms of productivity, I have appreciated the book The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin. It's an attempt to apply Taoist ideas in a modern context, but where a Taoist text would say "the sage does XYZ," Rubin says "the artist." It's about finding a way to continue being creative when doing so is painful.
Medication and therapy have been a mixed bag for me, but my friends have had to go through multiple medications and therapists, so I remain optimistic. I'm trying to get into the habit of exercising and meditating.
My biggest hurdle when trying C# (along with a very select few other languages) is that it’s very difficult to get working properly in my own environment.
I use an apple computer and prefer to write my code in a simple text editor. Getting C# (or god forbid C++) just running in such a way that I can just focus on the code and not the surrounding environment or build tools took me long enough the last time I tried, that I decided to just not use C#.
When was the last time you tried C#? These days, it's as simple as getting dotnet and executing "dotnet new <template> -o MyNewProject" to make a new project. Then "dotnet run" or "dotnet watch". Also, the VSCode extension (with C# Dev Kit) is pretty good nowadays compared to other languages (I personally find it as good as rust-analyzer), but certainly not as good as Rider for enterprises; I mainly use VSCode in fact.
brew install dotnet-sdk
dotnet new console -o ConsoleApp --aot
cd ConsoleApp
dotnet publish -o .
./ConsoleApp
(it may take extra time for bulding it for the first time, particularly pulling in IL Compiler dependency, but all subsequent compilations will be fast)
Feel free to comment out `PublishAot` property in .csproj file if you don't want AOT (i.e. using libraries that want JIT), or use dotnet watch and run commands for quick iteration.
Note that for rich editing experience you do not need C# Dev Kit (which requires an account), only a baseline C# extension which has all the good bits. For running and debugging the project out of VS Code - upon first F5 press it will suggest generating config assets for .NET project it managed to find in an opened folder - just agree and it will work on the next F5 press.
Why question a human’s innate desire to raise their own off-spring like we’ve evolved to do for millions of years?
So often people chime in with the “just adopt” and while I agree in a perfect world, that’s exactly what would happen, but in reality it goes against a very fundamental part or human nature to opt to raise someone else’s child instead of your own. It just completely misses the human element of why people are so naturally driven have kids and families to begin with.
Python is popular precisely because non-programmers are able to rearrange snippets and write rudimentary programs without a huge time investment in learning the language or tooling. It’s a very high level language with syntactic sugar that has a lot of data science libraries which can call C code for performance, which makes it great for data scientists.
It would be a huge detriment and time sink for these data scientist to take the time to learn to write an equivalent C program if their ultimate goal is to do data science.
