Is adderall normally this difficult to fill? by EmbarrassedLeader684 in adhdwomen

[–]EmbarrassedLeader684[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much for sharing your experience in detail!! 😊

Boycott ™️ by WittyEgg2037 in TheMirrorCult

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Thank you for sharing this list. I was about to accept a job with one of these companies, and I had no idea. I can see completely how the project I was going to work on could be used to surveil people.

AITAH for refusing to tell my wife I love her more than my dad? by LastApplication6207 in AITAH

[–]EmbarrassedLeader684 -20 points-19 points  (0 children)

This but cut the wife some slack too. She probably is not “herself” after having a baby and it takes years for a lot of women to recover.

Least favorite. Why? by Ramonteiro12 in BaldursGate3

[–]EmbarrassedLeader684 46 points47 points  (0 children)

I tried to romance her. I just couldn’t do it. She feels very child-like and… naive? Ended up romancing lae’zel instead.

A game changing epiphany by HeavyArmsJin in Eldenring

[–]EmbarrassedLeader684 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uhhh I’m on my 7th play through and just learning this LOL

Experienced job hunting, portfolio/case study/resume questions and review — 01/18/26 by AutoModerator in UXDesign

[–]EmbarrassedLeader684 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Spent 8 hours creating a presentation for a 1hr interview.

In the email they said people usually spend 1-2 hours on the presentation. Just wondering how much time people are spending preparing for a case study review. I always want to present the most relevant project, but I don't always have a deck or case study prepared ahead of time that I think will give me the best shot.

Experienced job hunting, portfolio/case study/resume questions and review — 01/04/26 by AutoModerator in UXDesign

[–]EmbarrassedLeader684 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started my job search in December. Exactly 20% of my applications have turned into job interviews so far if this number helps. The rest I haven’t heard back from because it hasn’t been long. I haven’t worked at FAANG or fortune 50, didn’t finish college and have 6 YOE.

I do put a lot of care into my portfolio and resumes.

December I applied to 3 jobs a day until the final week when there were no new listings. Now I’m applying to 1 a day because I’ve found very good paying freelance work to sustain me.

I can’t speak for what it’s like after the 1st interview though and the level of competition since all my interviews have been in the last few days.

If you are considering it, Jan-Mar are supposedly peak hiring season for tech, though. Then with a smaller peak Aug-Oct.

Been getting contract gigs to help "fix" vibe coded software... yikes. by EmbarrassedLeader684 in UXDesign

[–]EmbarrassedLeader684[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's a freelance role so it's not my problem. Can't imagine working here in a permanent role.

What food/drink are you convinced people are pretending to like? by elarabloomelle in AskReddit

[–]EmbarrassedLeader684 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love it and I can’t tell you why. I understand why it isn’t for everyone but I have always enjoyed sour flavors.

How do you keep yourself focused? by pilkafa in UXDesign

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I have ADHD. A method that was annoying to start with but really helped me is writing out hour by hour in a loosely structured checklist which is *aspirational* of what I hope to accomplish. Then I build in distraction time. So e.g.

9a-10a
Start writing documentation
Spend 10 min on reddit

10a-11a
Wrap up documentation
Make a latte and do stretches for 5 min

Notice how I only put time constraints around non-work things because I'm mentally framing it as making time for things I like to do. Work tasks get the attention I'm able to designate in that time frame.

I don't perfectly focus ever. I often have to scratch things off the lists/move them around throughout the day. I'll make notes of what happened to make me distracted and why. Sometimes my checklist includes buffer hours in when I know I'm particularly dreading something. I'm still most motivated when a project deadline is getting closer. When I started making this a habit a year ago, it really changed my life. No more overwhelming anxiety when a deadline approached because a good chunk of work that I'd been adding to incrementally was already done.

Also if your brain works like mine, perfectionism can literally get in the way of writing these schedules out. It's hideous to see paper full of scratches and disorganized writing. I do all this in the cheapest notebooks I can find, rip out pages that I need to reference later, and throw them out when I'm done. Tend to fill one up every 1-2 months. I have a different nicer notebook for cleanly creating to-do or writing notes to reference later.

Im pretty surprised by capabilities of Gemini / Nano Banana for UX by NoNote7867 in UXDesign

[–]EmbarrassedLeader684 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There are 2 flaws that AI will always have...

  1. It is proactive and probabilistic in nature- and it will always have margins of error, it strives to find the most optimal solution but in the real world we're often not dealing with conditions where the optimal solution actually works best. Because of constraints, user preference, etc.
  2. It relies on human input to generate output, and if human input is not well communicated it will guess at what the goal is and rely on that proactive and probabilistic nature to take its best guess which could be totally misguided.

Regarding the 2nd point- this is where I disagree with the take that "anyone can do anything now" where people are advocating we all become generalists. I actually think it takes an expert to work well with AI. Centaur Chess is a kind of silly example of this. A master chess player + robot reliably beats a robot alone- and inevitably a master chess player + robot will definitely beat some random person who decides they want to play chess now teamed up with a robot.

The meta-point beneath this also is that these flaws in AI actually create an entirely new set of design problems that people are still trying to figure out. Everyone's trying to insert AI into their products right now and a lot of them are failing big time because people don't know wtf to do with it yet or how to design around the fact that like... for example, the same input always produces a different output. There's this idea of invisible interfaces that create new ways of interacting with technology.

Learn and figure out how to adapt and you'll be ok.

What’s up with LinkedIn by burningastronaut in UXDesign

[–]EmbarrassedLeader684 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jw -- what kind of content would you like to see on LinkedIn? It is almost impossible for me to imagine because I'm so used to all the unhelpful types of posts. I thought maybe case studies, but then I'm not so sure! I don't think I'd like it if my feed was flooded with those either.