I know a couple of intimidatingly intelligent people who are burdened with serious depression.
The one who talks about it thinks it’s because of their intellect, that they can see more than most people; that they have some special insight.
I’ve asked them to explain this special insight that other people “don’t get” and my thoughts on it are:
It’s not the insight that causes the problem. It’s accepting what they see. The kind of intellect they are using is great for discovering things but to accept what you discover is a different skill, which doesn’t seem to come along with a high IQ.
I don’t believe being intelligent makes you less happy.
I believe a very well developed IQ-type intelligence coupled with an underdeveloped EQ-type intelligence is a recipe for unhappiness.
In the fight against "Weapons of Mass Distraction" I went to a Qin F21 Pro and used ADB to remove everything distracting.
This might be a way back to the iPhone for me though.
I strongly identify with the author's feeling that their phone had a kind of "gravity" before removing these apps. I described mine to somebody as the sense I was carrying around the ring of power in my pocket. It felt heavy.
If you are in a room full of people and you close your eyes, you still feel the presence of those people and your self-consciousness is thus mobilized.
There is something similar going on when I have a phone full of apps. Even when it's off, I can still sense their presence and some part of me is still online, idling and using resources to account for that.
Many adblockers work by blocking dns resolution, which does not alter code. It's like putting on glasses which block out certain words of a book you're reading. No alteration of the source material or host.
Thank you for taking the time to write this.
I have sourced the two books off eBay and will start the coursera course.
I’ve just finished Robert Pool and Anders Ericsson’s book “Peak” - which has convinced me to stop comparing my unpractised, lack of understanding to the practiced expertise of others.
So the two practice books you recommended have come at a time where I am especially receptive to the idea!
What is the essence of the beauty I see in 90s websites?
To me, they are easier to reason about. Maybe because of a higher information density, that’s static and aligned such that it’s easier to track groups of components and their relationships; cohesiveness is probably the word.
It’s heartwarming to read comments from clever people, focusing on their struggles.
Too often I interact with people who lock conversations into their own sphere of competence with the outcome being that I feel incompetent.
It'll be very interesting to find out if a system implementing this acoustic monitoring had been deployed and collecting data up until the recent dive.