I mean, if motivation is the problem not much can help with that.

But in my case, its memory. I literally cannot consistently remember what I’m doing. So that’s what the system is there for… at least solving the memory problem.

My psychology teacher points out that habits are very different from higher-level brain stuff. You might not be able to solve the motivation problem per se, but you can at least grow a habit to work off the list consistently. Building new habits is something well within the means of everybody (even those with physical damage to their brains who have lost a fair amount of functions). So “trust in habits”.

Habits aren’t motivation. But they’re still something that (if you build up and work at it), will consistently get you to check that list over-and-over again each day. And that’s enough. But its not easy to build a habit. And remember, habits aren’t motivation, they aren’t memory, they aren’t… a lot of things. They’re just that, a habit. That nagging feeling that you should do something (like closing a door when you leave your house. You’ve gained the habit, right? I’m sure you’ve failed before at it, but ADD / ADHD folk can gain habits)

I think I’m borderline ADD, but never felt the need to see a doctor. My personal workflow is to “assume I forget everything by tomorrow”. Each day, assume that “tomorrow me” is a completely different person who has forgotten what I was doing today. This sounds debilitating, and probably is for normies who can rely upon their memory to keep them motivated on a daily basis. But ADD people cannot do this.

What’s the solution?

You need to build and retain one key habit. Keep a notebook that contains the notes from yesterday (or even a few hours ago), that you can consult. While our memories / motivation suck, our habits are something you can reliably change.

It doesn’t have to be a physical notebook, it might just be a notepad.txt file on your computer desktop. It might be a blog, it might be a word.doc file. Or in my case, it really is a physical notebook that I write into repeatedly and spend a decent bit of time rewriting important bits. (Note: tomorrow me isn’t going to read more than 1 or 2 pages behind. This means I need to rewrite important data over-and-over again to where the bookmark is).

Yes, this means you effectively have a daily memory that consists of no more than 2 pages, maybe 3 pages (or whatever “tomorrow you” will reliably read). That’s fine. Work with that. Build the habit and continuously reference the notebook. Write notes to yourself, future you, about what you were doing, where you’ve come from, words of encouragement. That’s all you need, just one or two pages worth of “memory”. Never shy away from rewriting important things. Always remember that you only have a 1 or 2 pages worth of attention at best, so rewriting is key to carrying memories / motivations over more than a day ago.

You still have to work on the habit though and you can fall off the habit if you get lazy. But habits are something easier to keep than actual memory or motivation in my experience.

[email protected], and that server in general.

It’s the money.

US Fed has raised interest rates, destroying money for the first time in decades in an effort to stop our inflation problem

The knock on effects is that banks literally have less money to lend to companies. Some companies are affected more than others by this environment. Tech was hit hard, extremely hard.

With hundreds of thousands of layoffs, tech industry is contracting. Silicon Valley bank literally evaporated in the span of 3 days. Twitter was losing money and had to sell out. StackOverflow is losing money and is currently selling out.

In this environment, Reddit is about to launch it’s long awaited IPO, the time when the public is allowed to directly buy Reddit stock and invest into the company. That’s what Initial Public Offering means. If Reddit does well, Reddit will pull in lots of money this year through this IPO.

The CEO of Reddit needs to prove Reddit is profitable, or if not profitable… Will eventually be profitable. Stockholders don’t care about Reddit drama for the most part, but most are smart enough to read financial sheets. Reddit needs to show growing revenue, growing profits and cutting costs to attract money.

As such, all of what Reddit’s CEO has done makes sense in the context of the IPO. He is betting that shareholders won’t notice the drop of high quality content creators from Reddit, since that’s not a financial number that’s reported. He can IPO, raising millions, maybe even billions for himself. The golden parachute outta here when everything gets screwed up in a year or two and collapses.

I think today’s investors are smarter though, and the bearish economy and high interest rates means more investors will pay attention to underlying issues.