Mon May 29, 2023 10:53 AM
Mon May 29, 2023 10:48 AM
Ouch. This video hit deep and it’s a difficult lesson to learn about “a sophisticated form of procrastination” of doing prep stuff that can aid work but is not real work. Though most of the video he is criticizing the chasing of the latest and greatest note-taking app, that’s not what I’m guilty of.
What I got out of it was that just doing research, collecting information (links!), and writing down ideas is just prep or an aid to doing real work. But we get the dopamine hit of feeling like we did something of value! No, until we actually start making something useful out of that prep and doing the hard work, only then can we make something valuable and worthwhile.
For me, it was more than just a dopamine hit. I feel so guilty that I think it is more like a benign addiction. I wasted so much time not just collecting links, but I even built a link saving app (Zholink) that barely anyone else wanted, except for others suffering the same addiction. Now I see others releasing similar apps and making the same mistake that I made.
I write down awesome ideas and promise to get back to them later. It feels great at the time but somehow I lose motivation and find myself doing something else instead of actually working on those ideas.
I’m putting this embarrassing admission out there just in case other people have a similar problem and maybe this will help them. Maybe putting this out there will help remind me too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baKCC2uTbRc
Mon May 29, 2023 10:53 AM
Just like with all those tech companies that outsourced jobs to China, that tech gets stolen too. They need to commit to building up the infrastructure in India instead to build cheaper tech that would be too expensive to build in the USA. Imagine an iPhone costing $10k.
I’m only calling out China and it’s secret policies, not people in general. I know Chinese to be peaceful, hardworking, smart, beautiful, and kind.
China’s C919 jetliner wasn’t just built with home-grown spunk and gumption. It includes an awful lot of technology China allegedly stole from the same companies it hired to build the plane.
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