Just because the formal rate increase happened in March doesn't mean people didn't know about it already. Rate hikes are typically speculated on for several weeks (months?) before they actually happen. By the time it actually happens, the market has always priced it in.
The decrease in Jan/Feb was in anticipation of the March increase. And the current swings are in anticipation of the May/June increases.
Highly recommended! While I still procrastinate this understanding has helped me control my urge tememdously. A true gem! (This is also available as a video in Tim Urban's TED talk on YouTube)
I used to get yearly emails from Pocket when I used it saying I was in the top single-digit-n% of readers with a word count in the low six digits. That's maybe an hour of reading a day, which suggest the later never comes for most articles saved to Pocket.
These days I accept I don't care enough about most things to read articles on it until I get interested, and then it's hard to find good reading on it unless I've drilled my well. Now I save any interesting-looking article in Notion for when I get interested and go searching.
While the analogies in these articles are great, from personal experience, the second article's tips on how to beat procrastination are abysmal. Yes, breaking large steps into small chunks is good advice, but your goal should not be to live in a constant state of stress and anxiety by setting up "panic monsters". That's just a recipe for getting yourself burned out and becoming a "disastinator".
What I would instead suggest is reducing your workload, resting, and if that fails to fix the problem, seeing a medical professional to check for ADHD or other executive dysfunction issues. (It also really does bother me that Tim Urban never even mentioned that "procrastination" is known in the medical community as "executive dysfunction" and that clinical treatments are an option. Not saying that it's the root of all procrastination issues, but for major problems, it's worth looking at.)
FYI, I'm not posting "the" link to my site. I'm linking to the specific posts I've written that directly relate to the comments I am responding to. I believe my writing is useful in such cases - not in the least because people have directly reached out to me to say thanks.
Just trying to increase the chances that someone stumbles upon something that helps them. I don't see many people talking about ADHD here.
If public awareness of ADHD was anywhere where it needs to be, I wouldn't have spent 34 years living without help.
I just want to say that I think it's awesome that you are sharing your personal experience with ADHD here. The stigma around mental health does no one any good, and too often when ADHD comes up on HN, the loudest voices are people dismissing ADHD as a boogeyman that's over-diagnosed. It's important for people to know that ADHD is real and too often it isn't even diagnosed until adulthood.
I don't have a problem focusing per se [1]. The disorder's name is misleading [2].
In fact, I often have an excess of focus: focusing on something to the detriment of everything else [3].
Like, coding (or making music) till 5AM, forgetting to eat and sleep.
The problem I have is directing where the focus goes.
Let me make a camera analogy:
* Most people don't have laser-sharp focus, but it's good enough for what needs to get done, and they can switch it quickly and at will, like a manual focus on a camera;
* My focus is laser sharp... but it's automatic, and with a janky chip. So it takes time to engage, and often picks out the wrong subject.
Whatever it focuses on looks great, but if there's a squirrel in the frame, the focus always goes there, and it never focuses on some things just because.
Anything shiny and fine-textured (jewelry, fine art) will come out excellently, in super fine detail.
Anything that's bland and the same throughout (like plain cloth) doesn't have enough edges for the autofocus to catch on.
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Does music help? Well, it's one thing I can focus on. That's how I failed gym: I couldn't leave the music lab on time to make it to the next class... Every time. Breaking hyperfocus is painful.
Music isn't an ADHD cure, but what it is, is a place for many ADHD people to find themselves, and feel comfortable at. It ticks all the boxes: creative, important, necessary, and urgent — if you are performing. It's the shiny thing my autofocus chip can lock onto.
It gets the dopamine flowing, and when you get enough, you suddenly get the action points to do other things.
It's also a way to meet and connect with people. I made many friends through music — unsurprisingly, quite a few of them have ADHD.
So it helps, but not in a way you might think.
And classical piano music instruction is outright harmful IMO. I'm mostly self-taught/playing by ear; the skills I needed to play live weren't taught in school. People who spent years playing classical pieces somehow were never taught basic musicianship: playing by ear, improvising, arranging, basics of composing, etc; not to mention zero knowledge about music tech (of which we have more than a century now).
That said, I have taken several semesters worth of music production classes — and barely scratched the surface of what there is to learn.
On that note, I can highly recommend Huang's class on Monthly if you can truly dedicate time and effort needed for it, which is much more than the minimum required to just get through it. It's super condensed and hands-on.
Let me know if you want more info about music and resources.
Two hosts is efficient. Do it twice on two different hosts and then compare the results. If there is a mismatch, throw it away and redo it again on 2 hosts. A total of
4 computations are needed. But only if the difference really was due to bit flips, the chance of which are exceedingly rare.
In all the rest of the cases, you get away with two instead of three computations.
