mulling in some half-baked & untested thoughts abt how the tech person’s trend of analyzing & structuring everything in their life in terms of incentives boils down to a rly depressing lack of trust in human self
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yeah i thought about this and idk if this is selfish or insensitive of me but tbh it also feels shitty to have ppl coming in and decontextualizing 1 tweet out of 4 where i’m clearly trying to talk about a different generalized pattern
in this case yes i understand the connotations of the phrase and i do apologize that it echoed hurtful things you’ve heard bc that sucks. at the same time i...have also dealt w mental health issues and idk i know there’s extenuating things but it’s something i believe
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I agree 100% with the point. “you really care about something yet you can’t trust yourself to do what needs to be done” is almost the diag criteria for ADHD tho we use drugs/strategies to turn motiv into action tech folks w/o ADHD overuse the same drugs/strategies to be boring?
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like I'm not trying to decontextualize or be shitty, I actually think it's apt that it's so specifically ADHD-like like though the micro-optimizing tech crowd have convinced themselves they have a executive func disorder just 'cause they are not meeting superhuman expectations
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