ADHD definitely doesn't help but I don't find there's a direct link between ADHD & why I procrastinate. The why is personal to me & unlikely to be the same for everyone but I find these kinds of tools & strategies are a means to ignore the why & "get by" without addressing any fundamental issues.
One example (of which there are many) is that external validation as a motivator is a big cause of procrastination in some people - working on things "for others" hits on a lot of complex issues around personal insecurities & ego. The idea that your work will be seen & judged can be a big factor in pressures & subconscious negative emotions around doing the work. Addressing motivation properly involves addressing those insecurities, rather than just "getting on with it" & using a temporary strategy to get it done.
That's an example, but it doesn't apply to everyone & it's never that simple for anyone.
I’m coming to see the root is usually some kind of avoidance, always emotional, often subtle. I think this actually is pretty universal but the specifics vary wildly. It’s taken a while to unpack this. For a long time, when I’d about of a task I was avoiding, I’d just get this wave of a feeling of “ughhh” and turn away.
There’s something the feeling is trying to warn me about, and sitting with it can help figure it out and let it go. A lot of my own stuff stems from school I think. The funny thing is it’s often totally illogical. Like a sense of panic comes up - “oh no! Someone will be mad I haven’t started this yet!” - yes well wouldn’t getting it done avoid that outcome? “no but it’s too late! They’ll yell at me when I turn it in!”. My brain associated “doing the task” with “getting in trouble” in a weird way, and that emotional program runs whenever something vaguely similar comes up.
The surface-level fear might cover up a deeper fear underneath too (something like, I won’t be ok, or good enough, or loved anymore).
One other thing that trips many people up I think is the idea that they shouldn't be feeling "avoidant" about certain tasks that they love, enjoy & are passionate about (why would you). Often that comes down to being more invested in a perfect outcome for those "passion" tasks which ultimately builds more pressure to do it well & associated anxiety around not living up to ones own invented standards. "It's my passion therefore I must not fall short" can be a massive avoidance trigger.
Yes! I’ve noticed that when people struggle to manage their emotions, it often comes out in a kind of jabbing or teasing way. It’s usually not really about the other person, it’s more a reflection of their own insecurities. For example, the guy jabbing his friend for being short is probably not that tall himself and may feel insecure about it deep down. There could be some unprocessed feelings around it. The genuinely tall person usually couldn’t care less. The thought of making that jab doesn’t really even surface lol
Children that grow up in narcissistic homes often report having different recollections of their childhoods based on the particular role assigned to them by the narcissistic parent. These roles range from golden child, to lost child, to scapegoat, truth teller and many more. Some children also end up taking on the enabler role unknowingly. My mom is a covert narcissist and it took me many, many decades to realize it since most of the literature online deals with overt narcissism. I don’t mean to sound prescriptive, this may or may not be relevant to your specific case but hopefully it’s helpful to someone in a similar situation as mine.
I have the GCP sheet basic read quota limit, which is something I need to investigate if I can make it higher.
Also, in theory right now once you use a sheet once it will cache the version so that subsequent queries are faster, and in theory if you change the sheet it will check for that and use the live data if it got updated in the meantime.
Nevertheless, it might take a minute or so sometimes.
This may be a bit reductive but the article is basically saying that the larger the population the quicker progress and innovation will occur. What’s unclear though is if this progress and innovation leads to greater human happiness and fulfillment. As we’ve seen lately, the opposite could also be true. With climate change on the horizon, we may have even reached peak human happiness sometime in the late 20th century
Progress and innovation absolutely does lead to greater human happiness and fulfillment. As an example, absolute number of people living in extreme poverty started to sharply decline at the start of the 21st century: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extre....
That chart does abysmally little to support your claim, for a few reasons.
1) How many of those people in the green live on less than $5 a day? $1.90 per day is an absurd and arbitrary limit which feels cherry picked to make a Pinker-esque pleasing chart.
2) It hardly goes back in time. I'd like to know how happy hunter-gatherers were 20k years ago. Maybe I could go ask the North Sentinelese but I think building a time machine might be easier than getting a straight answer from them.
Uh, oh. Taking a look, sorry about that. What error are you getting? In the meantime, you can email me at giulio at searchbase.dev and I can add you manually.
It's really not that hard. At the end of the day it's just a human making quick decisions hundreds of times a day.
I've had more than my share of rejected updates that get approved after a re-submission with no change.
> At the end of the day it's just a human making quick decisions hundreds of times a day.
My company had a version of our communications app in the app store for several years. We decided to sell private-branded versions for some customers where the only differences were the color palette and logo shown on the login screen.
For the app versions we created for customers, one was approved on first review, another required a couple months of back-and-forth with the reviewer, and the third never got approved.
You and I know, but the great majority of the people in the world do not.
And, of course, we only see the cases where the scam app gets through. The success rate for these scams might be pretty low, but from our perspective we wouldn't know.
> You and I know, but the great majority of the people in the world do not.
It's literally an app reviewer's job to know that. Having random people on the street reviewing apps would not be very useful. Although sadly, that may be close to the truth:
> You and I know, but the great majority of the people in the world do not.
Relevance? When there is already an app called LastPass published by LogMeIn with millions of downloads, clearly you don't approve an app called LastPass published by a "Parvati Patel"
