I measure intelligence by the degree of how fooled I was on the nth encounter in respect to the (n + 1)th. By "fooled" I don't mean anything connotative in nature, just how wrong I was in any respect that mattered, given I wasn't an idiot at the moment.
For example, an older man used to serve me my sub every day, at a fast food joint, and on our last encounter he handed me his book; it turns out he was a millionaire--he simply enjoyed hospitality and writing (makes sense ;).
However, one should aim to improve their ability to measure intelligence. This is done by being silent--by this I mean, stop your internal dialog (don't talk to yourself).
This is accomplished when you acknowledge you simply are not that important, however, this will socially isolate you in unexpected ways. A practical way to measure your progress is how defeated you are by someone less smart than you; when this is no longer true, then find a smarter person, and so forth.
If you manage this feat, you will notice you were merely taking inventory of your own world and no other one, your entire life (not learning from others). Here, I'm suggesting, that you must find truly intelligent humans, they rarely approach you, unless you are also smart.
This may sound half-baked, but I personally plan on exploring how far I can take the ideal and form of a "book" oriented UX/UI, in a least one future project--but is a subject I've written about almost too much.
If this sounds silly for software, then what exactly is the UX/UI of a spreadsheet application, and why is it so universally useful? At first, I thought this was by virtue of its tabular UI/UX, but books are nothing but rows and columns of text, are they not? At least Awk thinks so. What is the difference between a cell and a sheet in a relational sense? I see no difference, or that is, its design is isomorphic.
A book is a collection of sheets, where a sheet consists of other sheets or views, where a view is any given selection and dimension of text. Sheets can be stacked, ordered, sorted, and indexed into new books, just as words can--and as linguists say, into an infinite set of sentences (views). This design cannot be reduced in a hyper-grammatical sense.
This is to suggest that a "book" UX/UI would require a new way on how we approach language not only within the context of software but language--it's a direct spit in the face of Chomsky himself (although he would have more to say about this than I), but hasn't this been a long ways in coming? It seems as if textual communication is the long term trend, but comes at no surprise to any of us, here whom work remotely. So really when I say "book" based UX/UI, I mean just that, but really--it is augmented natural grammar--a subject beyond the scope of this discussion.
All good UX solves a problem, so what is the problem here? It's increasing the transmission capacity of information over text, or that is, expanding what and how we can express as information with language, without monumental standards. But no language is without communication and therefore the crux of the problem lies in the future of higher level network protocols (if you believe in such a thing).
> A book is a collection of sheets, where a sheet consists of other sheets or views, where a view is any given selection and dimension of text.
I would think a book is an ordered collection of chapters, a chapter an ordered collection of paragraphs, etc.
The pages are there solely to force the book into a physical form, just as one can ‘project’ a spreadsheet onto pages. Scrolls are an alternative physical form.
Excellent advice. You ultimately can’t argue with a machine after all. I feel I should tell HN the circumstance under my termination for posterity. I was assigned a bug to fix on a new system that was designed in isolation by my coworker. After about a day, I realized that the bug didn’t exist. The bug was actually a large feature my coworker never implemented, but no one noticed, because it was on the back end. My coworker was severely autistic but could function if he didn’t need to communicate with others and often had fits. Because he was the first employee, my boss didn’t realize this fully until I was hired. Some months prior, my boss had told me the coworker was slated for termination, as he was bringing more developers onboard, but this was supposed to be down the road. Knowing my disabled coworker would be fired if I told the truth, I did what I thought was the responsible thing, and quietly worked on implementing it at night. However, after a week, my new manager was irate with me on why the bug wasn’t fixed. I was forced to tell the truth but was sleep deprived and lost my temper for the first time in my career. As a result apparently my manager didn’t understand what I told him, and because he was the younger brother of my boss, I was terminated instead. Maybe it was for the best, but sadly I heard that my coworker was fired about three months into lockdown, I was terminated the very day lockdown began. He will never find another job, but I will. Not long after that I heard my manger quit for a better paying job. Am I the asshole? At any rate, I think you’re right, but how hard is it to break into embedded programming? I actually started learning OS design not long ago and finished learning C and Rust, but never considered it an option career wise.
Social media manager. My friend does it professionally and overall it seems perfect for someone suffering from ADHD. Why that would be I think is because it’s literally your job as a social media practitioner to be hyper active and divided in attention on no single task for very long.
For those saying “Do anything you love!” is not good advice in general, even if you don’t suffer from ADHD. I suffer from treatment resistant depression, meaning I’m in the same boat as most ADHD patients. My advice is to experiment both in terms of psychiatric medications first and then experiment professionally by buying some textbooks on subjects you’re curious about.
The hard part is always how to find the perfect book, no matter who you are. The answer can’t be found with a simple google search. Many people think they aren’t smart or don’t have the attention others do, but in reality it’s google and amazon and affiliate blog spam, whom make more money recommending crappy ones so you end up buying more. In general, you really have to judge books by the publisher and over time you learn which ones are safe bets. When it comes to book recommendations, it’s nepotism all the way down.
I wonder what property makes that true of a yoga ball? I almost always find myself leaning forward on my desk as if I'm riding a bike. Perhaps it absorbs the stress more than a conventional chair or maybe it's because it's omnidirectional in terms of possible postures? I have one of those Ikea mechanical adjustable height desks (forget what it's called) and wouldn't trade it for the world. My boss used to work standing up, but neither did he program for 12+ hours a day.
I would guess it's because it requires more active stabilization of the back and core and as a result muscle tone and posture either stays the same or slightly improves.
I also find that I'm and moving around more often or changing positions more frequently since switching to an exercise ball. I'm guessing several short stints sitting are better than 4-8 hour sessions.
I think I answered my own question by asking it. I think only the DDF would have to be ported. However, further discussion is welcome, since I'm still curious about Tokio's future with WASM.
