This is a fascinating argument. I like the perspective of a game like poker having greater similarity to true war than traditional war games like chess or go due to ever-increasing information. This adds another dimension to the game.
Money can be transferred in realtime continuous flow into your pocket. Imagine you salary is not coming once a month, but instead every second you work. So that you can actually pay with it the next second.. It's the first time in human history that this is actually possible.
For what it's worth, the distinct impedance mismatch inherent to monthly payment has a very useful buffering quality to it.
A pay-per-second model explicitly validates accountancy-per-second, aka micromanagement, and constructs a unique feedback loop that, exactly as you say, has never been possible before.
How would you build fundamental contingencies against micromanagement into such a model?
I recently read Atomic Habits by James Clear, and also listened to some process philosophy from Steven West's Philosophize This. One takeaway that I had was on the danger of setting goals. I am trying to build a mindset of 'becoming' or to embrace the journey of the goal rather than really trying to achieve a specific milestone.
- I want to reduce/eliminate my alcohol consumption to become a person that doesn't rely on alcohol for social distraction or self-medication. To achieve this I have stopped keeping any alcohol in my home. If I have a drink it will need to be out somewhere and by virtue a 'special occasion'.
- I want to improve my work-life balance by setting expectations that I am unavailable after 5pm. I aspire to be someone who can remain a high performer while also finding and following my passions. This year I will continue to shape those passions. There is no real milestone that I feel I need to set.
I really like this idea of "becoming" / "embracing" versus trying to achieve a specific end. As the adage goes, it's all about the journey, not the destination.
I'm trying to do something similar. I have this terrible habit--that I suspect many, many people also do--of thinking that "future me" will be far more capable than present me, that in one year I'll be less anxious, more courageous, less fearful, more outgoing, etc.
(On a smaller time scale, people who struggle with kicking bad habits do the same thing, myself included. I will tell myself, "starting tomorrow, I will once and for all stop {drinking too much soda, eating too much}!" Tomorrow-Me is Hercules, with the willpower of Zeus and the indomitable spirit of a world-class athlete. Of course I end up spending tomorrow drinking soda like a fish drinks water, only to tell myself that "tomorrow will be different.")
Inevitably what ends up happening is that one year from then I'm still the same person, and all I have done is kick the can down the road on so many opportunities--the party I didn't go to because I didn't know anyone; the lunch I made an excuse to skip because I was embarrassed that my old friends were farther along in life than I was (whatever that even means); the interview I turned down because I "wasn't ready yet." While doing these things, I told myself that some indefinite period from now, I'll be this perfect human who is ready to do all of those things, and that right now I'm a flawed person who isn't ready to do those things just yet.
But that perfect human never came to be, and the flawed human is what remains. It's tautological to say this, but nothing changes if nothing changes. I won't be magically courageous or outgoing one year from now if I don't actually embrace the nervous and shy person that I am today. And I hope that if I embrace it, accept that I'll fall and stumble, and try to make little progress along the way, then one year from now I can look back and say, "I'm still not a perfect human and never will be, but I'm satisfied that I did ___."
> I want to reduce/eliminate my alcohol consumption...
same here. each year it just takes more and more out of me physically/mentally, this year really seemed to emphasize that. looking for 6 months here and then will re-evaluate. in the past breaking a sweat when the urge/opportunity arises has been pretty effective.
I have found AA and the community as a whole welcoming. I’ve spent the last 18 years of my life try to “control” my drinking. Not drinking on work nights, staying sober for months at a time but I always found myself down that slippery slope. The pandemic and work from home made it 1000% times worse. I didn’t have to shower or commute. I’d roll out of bed login, do standup and start drinking. It never affected my work. I’ve always gotten rave reviews. AA has changed my life in regards to family, physical well being and work. YMMV but if you’re interested the AA site has pdf versions and audio versions of the big book. The big book was an interesting read for sure.
I used to drink socially. But every time it turned into a binge episode. And as it turns out, stopping drinking before the first one is the solution that works for me.
Sadly this did cause some social life problems. I had to mostly replace the people I hang out with.
To provide an alternate solution to the one already mentioned, I used a modern medicine approach to alcohol use disorder called The Sinclair Method. The tl;dr is that you continue to drink using an opioid antagonist (usually Naltrexone) which blocks the endorphins rewards from consuming alcohol and eventually you just stop caring about it.
I like the idea of pushing the journey to the forefront. My new year is trying to be more in the present and not take for granted the blessings I have.
* Congrats on removing alcohol from the home thats a big first step, keep that one aspiration and I think it'll have a profound impact. Not trying to push this at all , but CBD ( delta8 ) helped me with the cravings ( its kind of like the side effect of smoking weed, you're relaxed and somewhat sleepy but not 'stoned' ).
I will add, CBD and Delta8 are very different things. CBD is not like smoking weed, it's just relaxing and I believe what the parent is referencing. Delta8 can (and usually does) contain Delta8-THC, which is far more psychoactive than CBD (its purpose is to be a legal alternative to regular weed, its made to be as close as possible). Now, if you wanna actually smoke weed you can get weed that contains very low Delta9-THC (Delta9 is weed as we've known it for decades) with high CBD that will not get you (very) high.
I don't even know if Delta8-CBD exists but if you go somewhere and ask for delta8, it's going to get you high and potentially be very not relaxing. If you ask for CBD specifically, it will not be highly psychoactive. Just be careful out there these days, it's only getting more confusing and marketing heavy.
I think the concept is focusing on performing/developing the habits/systems required to achieve longer term goals. Kind of like focusing on what you can do today with what you have on hand for a project rather than focusing on finishing the whole project. For example, a goal under these guidelines might be "lose 10 lbs by July." The goal wouldn't be, "go to the gym 3x per week," or "eat X, Y, Z protein, carbs, and fat grams per meal." Those would be habits/systems to achieve the weight loss goal.
Someone told me they set a meeting from 6pm till 9am next morning on their calendar (Outlook) that was marked as “Out of Office”. I didn’t know you could do that, but without fail, their online status switches to OOO at 6pm.
I think it’s really good for setting expectations.
You should be able to set your working hours in Outlook. You specify days of the week and start and stop time. In your calendar when people look to book meetings in times outside of your office hours the time will be grey or some other shade.
My notifications in Teams and Outlook stop coming to my phone in my off hours. You may need to go to the phone settings and change notifications to say do not notify outside of work hours or something similar.
I learned about it in a book by James Clear. See his article https://jamesclear.com/identity-based-habits
ED: I must add that my comment support's parent's post, for they talked about identity based habits as well.
Electric utilities are fairly old-school as well and will lean towards in-person and hybrid work. They will have a few dev / architect / web jobs on the IT side, but definitely not top-tier pay (although an actual 40 hours a week would be typical in the industry).
I really like this style of article. It explains things in a shallow way with an enjoyable narrative. Thats also why books like the Pheonix project are so popular. If I want to know more about the divisions of the large banks I know what the context is and what terms to DDG. Great way to start start the day by learning something new. Cheers Vivek, looking forward to part 2.
Books like that are my favorite. Built to Sell by John Warrillow is a perfect example, and one that I really enjoyed. It teaches the reader how not to run a business via a fictitious story and really opened my eyes to all the things I was doing wrong in my business.
That might explain why in america more people in tech are diagnosed with ADHD, but would provide evidence against fewer people in europe being diagnosed with ADHD than in america (which is what the poster is asking about) since they have more access to healthcare, and it's not income dependent.
To answer the OP's question, I seem to recall that people with ADHD are more prone to be entrepreneurial (I believe a higher appetite for risk is the general explanation). Here is an article [0].
This would explain things if the people you know in tech happen to work for tech startups.
My doctor tells me that there is some theories that ADHD may be an evolutionary response to dangers in our environment. (like avoiding lions or being alerted to changes in weather) When I think about it this way I feel better about rejecting medications (or accepting them). Personally just understanding the pros/cons of ADHD has helped me identify some of my shortcomings. For example, I can focus for days on the wrong topic, so I need to be aware of this so I don't work on something unimportant and then get burned out. When I don't know the right thing to work on and break it into concrete steps I find myself unable to accomplish anything at all for days or weeks jumping from task to task every 5 mins.
So I suggest you explore this to learn about yourself so that you can take the newfound information to make the best steps toward your personal/career/etc goals. That may be disregarding everything they suggest and refusing treatment, but understanding more about yourself and how your mind works cant be a bad thing can it?
> So I suggest you explore this to learn about yourself so that you can take the newfound information to make the best steps toward your personal/career/etc goals. That may be disregarding everything they suggest and refusing treatment, but understanding more about yourself and how your mind works cant be a bad thing can it?
I did that for 50 years before the diagnosis, I decided to try what my therapist suggested.
Thank you! I do agree that, researching, I see that there are things that have been nagging me for years, but not enough to really need a fix. I work in technical and creative capacities, so I don't to dull an edge with medication.
