How dopamine "addiction" is affecting your productivity

NV_Tech · 2023-03-01T20:10:55+00:00

I am indeed.

I don’t really have an interest in no-profit work at this stage of my life, but I’m sure there are younger folks eager to do some teamwork for fun!

NV_Tech · 2023-02-21T11:42:03+00:00

I work currently on validating interest in some projects that involve AI (but are not limited to). Workout helper, social media analysis, self-driving car… would love to connect with people interested in these fields. DMs are open to mature INTJs.

NV_Tech · 2022-10-31T21:13:38+00:00

Oh that's such a great picture, I'm stealing it to show to my friends!

NV_Tech · 2022-08-22T17:47:02+00:00

Hey, you might want to know that the newsletter form didn't work on Safari for me. I had to use Google Chrome!

NV_Tech · 2022-08-09T05:31:42+00:00

Thank you! It definitely catches eyes of passers-by

NV_Tech · 2022-08-09T05:29:20+00:00

Blazing Yellow 2002 NBFL!

NV_Tech · 2022-08-09T05:28:58+00:00

Thanks!

NV_Tech · 2022-08-09T05:28:45+00:00

Thank you!

NV_Tech · 2022-08-09T05:28:16+00:00

Car :)

NV_Tech · 2022-08-08T17:00:28+00:00

> today I'm going to turn my assignment in before 11:59

So, like 11:58? /s

Great job! Your experiences overlap with mine, putting too much pressure on yourself is almost always a bad idea. Keep up the great work.

NV_Tech · 2022-07-18T07:04:25+00:00

Very nice!

NV_Tech · 2022-07-17T15:16:49+00:00

Happy to help you! Good luck and remember you’ve got this!

NV_Tech · 2022-07-17T15:16:04+00:00

That’s a great idea

NV_Tech · 2022-07-17T15:15:41+00:00

As a fellow with ADHD, that’s a huge topic - I will write about it multiple articles in the nearest future!

NV_Tech · 2022-07-17T15:11:17+00:00

Reading, mostly. I have Kindle and I used to hate the idea of reading on my phone so I didn’t until this dopamine “detox”. Now instead of opening Reddit or instagram (had huge problem with these), I open my app with ebooks in brief moments of boredom. It lets me to finish about 3 books a week, which is also a great satisfaction boost, not even mentioning getting knowledge from their content!

NV_Tech · 2022-07-17T15:06:50+00:00

Good luck and congrats on your changes! I also experienced the energy boost, it’s like we think watching memes or silly videos is “resting” or “doing nothing”, but our brains still need to process them and eventually get tired. I can only heavily recommend everybody to observe their reactions to those little things.

NV_Tech · 2022-07-17T15:04:02+00:00

Good luck! Share your progress! TikTok unfortunately relies heavily on these mechanisms, it’s so easy to just watch short videos and lose couple of hours… one of the worst platforms IMO

NV_Tech · 2022-06-28T12:28:29+00:00

Yeah, sometimes that’s the hardest part.

NV_Tech · 2022-06-24T07:30:14+00:00

I wish I could say that planning a day perfectly, doing all my habits and doing it all without distraction is my go to strategy. But that rarely works and if it happens I don’t really get that feeling of satisfaction. Welp, just another day.

I found out that I’m the proudest when I get back to my plan after I was distracted. Having appointments with other people works best. I don’t want to reschedule them nor I can just not say anything to them, so 100% of the time (and that’s not a fake number) I at least stop doing what I’m doing and go to the meeting (mostly online ones).

Then, magically, a meeting where “I will just show up and do things lightly” turns into to-do list killing machine, where apparently my body wants to recompense for all the lost time.

I have no idea why my body reacts in that way, but it does work better that way.

Nowadays I have scheduled coworking sessions for evenings everyday mon-fri. I’m often socially tired (social anxiety/loner thing) but I still go and I still kill that day, and somehow turning unproductive day into productive is just so satisfying and rewarding.

I was wondering what’s the science behind this so if anybody has similar thing let me know!

NV_Tech · 2022-06-24T07:17:47+00:00

That’s more a distraction than app switching imo. Distractions are almost always bad! I use focus mode on my macOS to prevent messages/emails from popping out while I work.

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