trying to see something: have you tested "life hacks," broadly speaking (new supplements, new todo systems, new mental motions) and found that they worked for a certain period of time and then stopped working? if so what was that period?
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sha256 hash of the length of time i am wondering if answers will cluster around: FC52302764758E98A29F355BD4F493FBA87B46D2CCA97249808D87164A5F7CFA
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longest ever probably two years
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I don’t really think in this way. Not a supplement guy, I have a bare-bones ToDo system I’ve used for years, and mental models tend to hang around my head proportional to how useful they are
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stuff from others - 1wk - 2 months
stuff i made up for myself - until i inevitably lose the tools or start working in a different way
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I think of it as New Relationship Energy supplied whatever BS life hack, never designed to last and I just hop from one to the next to generate more NRE 😂
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For me it is either ~a month or forever. My todo app was a permanent game changer, picked that up 4y ago
That being said, when they introduce bugs or update it to add 3 taps to frequently used actions I have been known to "lose my shit" so some hacks introduce new vectors for BS
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I feel this happens all the time for me. I like having to learn what the new frameworks will be, and also getting to spiral back to old ones in due time.
If I had to guess, I'd say things generally happen in, like, three-week cycles for me.
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