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Came from &2059&2059. I like the design.

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hey there! welcome 😊

I sit in meetings all day long, I roll my eyes and die a bit and synergize and circle back inner life sacrosanct outer face smiling stone no need to rush: executives don't need to work just synergize and circle back

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I miss the Dat protocol.

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Anyone in the room recently diagnosed as being in the spectrum and older than 40?

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I'm 55 and recently self-diagnosed as "fairly ASD with some ADHD" after watching a lot of youtube videos. It's been immensely helpful (to the point of bringing me to tears sometimes) in understanding the struggles I had when I was younger. It's also been very helpful in understanding what I can do currently to support myself and work with my brain instead of against it.

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I'm glad it was useful to you. This process of becoming aware of our autism is not easy. It is liberating, but it is also difficult, at the same time. I watched a lot of videos too, but then I visited a couple psiquiatrists and a psycologist (I had other problems too), just to be sure. What is your opinion about the ASD youtube landscape? I think that there are a few very good channels, but there is lot of noise too. I see some danger there.

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Those "10 signs you may be [or not be] autistic" seem quite dangerous to me. Neurodivergence can be tricky.

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Yeah. I do like them sometimes, but the good authors are careful to start the video with looots of caveats (e.g. "this is not how to diagnose, just something that's maybe helpful").

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Yeah I agree that there are many ASD channels on YT of varying qualities. I only follow a few. Some of my favorites (very roughly in order):

@MomontheSpectrum
@imautisticnowwhat
@elenacarr0ll -- kinda more emotive, but I find that helpful sometimes
@autismfromtheInside -- no longer posts (burned out)

I think for now being self diagnosed is enough for me. Just knowing that I'm neurodivergent has been helpful for me to be kind to my own mind.

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Yes. It’s helped me understand more about how things affect me and why I respond to things in certain ways, which helps me manage situations and myself better. It’s given me a vocabulary to articulate experiences that I struggled to make sense of.

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why the hell did youtube add gifs to comments this change is top 10 worst changes of all time

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Trying to jump back into project work while my kids are still home before school starts on Wednesday 🫠

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When I was 10, I thought I'd be a scientist I wanted to tinker in a lab, doing something with beakers and bunsen burners Making a difference. As an adult, I sit in meetings and discuss who to fire next I tinker with spreadsheets, doing something with LLMs and JIRA Be enthusiastic

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As young kid I dreamed of working with reel-to-reel machines Cutting/splicing tape, happy accidents As a teen I couldn't afford reel-to-reel but got decent with multi-track cassettes Everyone was telling me digital was The Way (tm) In my 30s, I finally learned how to use a DAW properly In my 40s, I'm back to playing around with multi-tracks cassettes There is no money in it, but I'm enthusiastic as I can be (this is not so much as direct response as simply a response)

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“Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.” - David Deutsch

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hi all

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hello!!!

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hi mate 👍

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hi 👋

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yoooo

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Hello from 🇮🇩

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how to use our time properly. i need to improve my productivity.

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You can do it by beating procrastination. Procrastinators enjoy themselves rather than working at assigned tasks.

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there are reasons to procrastinate. sometimes you are not ready for a task and it has to ripen on the back of your had. sometimes you don't have structure and are not organised. sometimes you might be overwhelmed by too many tasks.

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make a schedule and only try to get one or two things done per day. productivity is not about getting more done for the sake of it. it's about getting to what is important for you.

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setting up some of my workflows based on this writeup - ludwigabap.com/…/on-my-personal-…of-the-tools-i-use/ Particularly a big fan of zellij amongst others Also venturing into having agents enable more of my work - let us see how that goes.

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Hopefully this takes off

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y'all!

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Morning! What's on the docket today?

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In the middle of migrating very old, homegrown tomfoolery into a more modern stack. Fun and vexing at the same time. This codebase has all of the bad decisions. All of them.

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and third is the charm

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work week is finally over. time to over this long (US) weekend

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What you playing? My recent was Mina the Hollower—intricate, dense, demanding. Bangers on the soundtrack. Good stuff.

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ive been making my way through monster hunter world's iceborne expansion. lots of fun mina the hollower is near the top of my list to play soon, have fun!

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I've written a small persistent agent wrapper for agent.py. I'm impressed with how well it works. I feel like a CEO issuing global memos to all my agents after reading their status reports.

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After running them for a weekend and spending $2 on openrouter I've put the wrapper script at public.swiley.net/agents.sh

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Laying in bed isn't the same as resting, and it sucks.

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