I would want to do so many things. I would want to do a ninja warrior type course, but with adjusted gravity or something. I’d make it into a gym with everything I need for my workout. That or maybe recreate a sports stadium and watch football from today, because I missed all of it? The possibilities are endless
I read through the non paywalled link and I couldn’t find any info on if this analysis adjusts for inflation or not. 17 times larger (before inflation possibly) seems so ripe for cherry picked data points in the name of sensationalism, that I wanted to confirm this one idea, and I didn’t. Did anyone else find anything like that?
I started needing glasses when I was 13. I couldn’t see the writing on the chalkboard any more. My eyes have slowly gotten worse since then and nowadays I need them all the time. It’s still an adjustment every time I get a new pair, but you get used to it real quick
Growing up, I was always described with words like “spontaneous” or “spastic”. I would feel a grasp of content in school but absolutely no interest in doing whatever I deemed as “busy work”, including homework. I turned into a very mid student even through college.
After college, I got a full time job but with no real direction or aim towards anything. I was discouraged by a bad economy and always having bad feelings with interviews. Eventually I found a job in tech, and started applying myself and found that I could write software as a career, and feel mostly good at the end of the day.
It wasnt until COVID, and working from home with my wife, that I noticed how different we are about our ability to context-switch from chit-chatting and generally being social to actual productive work. I eventually broke down crying and we made changes so that I would be left mostly alone. Talking about these encounters with my therapist I eventually was told that I meet the symptoms of ADHD. Soon after I got tests and it the diagnosis was confirmed.
While things have gotten better (being able to put a name to it, and having sources of knowledge to read in has been helpful), it hasnt been a night and day difference from before. I can still get distracted, and I still have to protect my ability to focus. Most of what has been helpful is more around trying to manage my energy and mental state (sleep, proper diet, taking breaks, exercise, etc), and then trying to understand and identify when I am more likely to struggle with focusing
the walling off of internet social media is the stupidest thing ever. enshittification at its worst
In my experience, the matching part doesn’t really mean anything other than the conversation between the two of you is now possible. Both of you need to participate in that conversation. And it needs to go well if it means you’ll have a date. The statistics are not great for men, and nothing is organic about the process, so you just have to protect your feelings and understand that if they don’t talk to you, or if it doesn’t go well, it can be for any number of reasons.
Try your best to not get frustrated, because each individual person is doing their own thing, it’s not you versus all potential matches. You are you. They are them. It just doesn’t work out sometimes