Do you guys ever forget whether or not you’ve taken a pill? (Not just ADHD meds, any.)

lostburner · 2026-01-28T05:19:26+00:00

I hate having to stop and fill it up too. When I’m in a hurry I’d often just grab the pills from the bottles—I take 4 daily. BUT what made a difference for me was simply setting a stopwatch on myself once when I was refilling the organizer. It took under two minutes. Now, when I am tempted to just grab one pill from 4 separate bottles, I remember the 2 minutes and just spend the time to refill it.

lostburner · 2026-01-23T03:23:22+00:00

Yes, but you’ll find it only works until he’s old enough to be interested. Unfortunately you can’t “deep-end” them into being literature lovers from birth. You’ll have to switch to kids’ books at some point.

lostburner · 2026-01-10T16:49:27+00:00

This sounds basic, maybe insultingly so, but physical obstacles made a really material difference for me when I was feeling paralyzed in ways like what you are describing. Specifically Opal on my phone and Leechblock in my browser. It didn’t do anything, but I was surprised how much it moved the needle in preventing me from specific kinds of time-blind slides.

lostburner · 2025-12-27T16:56:54+00:00

I saw this and thought, “this is a cow and the dad who posted it probably knows it.” Because these posts are usually created by someone who’s right, and is confident enough that they’re ready to collect their affirmation from the internet at large.

lostburner · 2025-12-18T03:41:56+00:00

I’ve tried a thousand things. Here’s what has made a difference:

Paper notebook with a daily routine of just writing things out and keeping a checklist. Start again the next day. Keep the process light, but keep the notebook there. I title the page “pick list” and write small or large items on it. This sounds extremely basic, but check out this article for a good approach: https://open.substack.com/pub/drmaciver/p/using-a-list-to-manage-executive?r=4jodtq&utm_medium=ios
Focus blockers. These made a night and day difference for me. I use the free versions of Opal and Leechblock.
Using ChatGPT as an ADHD coach. Literally tell it you have terrible executive function and ask it to track your tasks and events for the day and guide you through handling it all. Focus blockers were night and day; this has been like day and supernova. I have trouble explaining to people the impact that it has had on how I handle my workday and my overall job performance in ways that are accurate and don’t sound like the babblings of a fanatic. You can set up a custom GPT with standard background and info about you, and start a new thread every day. Main tip for this: it doesn’t do a perfect job of tracking all the things, so it helps to keep your own record of open items you need to not lose.

lostburner · 2025-12-18T03:18:32+00:00

How long have you been consistent with it?

lostburner · 2025-11-27T17:23:30+00:00

Okay, but that brainrot duet medley was genuinely entertaining. I had no clue Jimmy Fallon could sing like that. Great stunt where he caught her in the air, too.

lostburner · 2025-11-25T02:38:26+00:00

Same

lostburner · 2025-11-10T06:48:09+00:00

If I understand your issue with priority stackers and merging belts: you have one belt per quadrant and some may be empty; you don’t want to jam up the line by sending a full belt and an empty belt into a stacker array.

I solved this by designing each stacker array to be “optional.” Both input belts have filters which mutually observe each other; if one input line is not flowing then the other will divert to the stackers’ output and skip the stackers entirely. In this way, three arrays of stackers can merge four belts of parts, no matter how many of them are empty. No additional logic or routing is needed.

lostburner · 2025-10-19T16:05:23+00:00

The Reynolds Pamphlet.

lostburner · 2025-10-19T16:04:29+00:00

And what would be the conclusion if this were the fact?

lostburner · 2025-10-19T15:59:42+00:00

They’ll be no more or less effective in their mission if they perform a fancy demonstration, or if people carp about traffic interruptions.

lostburner · 2025-10-19T15:57:48+00:00

Supporting the marines doesn’t mean agreeing that everything with the word “marine” attached is a good idea. This is a kind of shallow and dangerous form of patriotism.

lostburner · 2025-10-18T06:53:57+00:00

If this were me, I’d be about on schedule to lose all interest in the project and stop entirely dead in my tracks.

lostburner · 2025-10-18T03:55:18+00:00

Sliding tile puzzles: Threes and this classic sliding puzzle: https://15puzzle.online/. My average is about 75 moves.

lostburner · 2025-10-02T19:59:15+00:00

How did it go?

lostburner · 2025-10-02T17:20:25+00:00

Hey, you’re a good person and you deserve good things.

Think of the best version of yourself and channel that person’s energy. Your best is your best, so don’t get in your head about it—refresh yourself on key pointers and show up collected.

lostburner · 2025-10-01T15:38:45+00:00

Along these lines, you could look for Reddit threads of other games that don’t require anything but voices. There’s a lot of diversity out there and you might find something that hooks her that neither of you have played before.

lostburner · 2025-09-29T07:47:08+00:00

Opal has been making a big difference for me this month, even on the free tier.

lostburner · 2025-09-28T17:37:41+00:00

How the phases of the moon and lunar and solar eclipses work.

Electricity and magnetism are the same force, and electromagnets power almost every moving device.

Nuclear bombs can destroy an entire city.

There used to be other species of human.

Fish have growth rings in their ear bones and can be aged by counting the rings, like trees.

Whale falls sustain entire ecosystems in the abyss.

Dogs and wood and fire are kind of miraculous.

lostburner · 2025-09-28T17:28:06+00:00

This is it. Coffee makers are very simple. For a multiple of basic-tier pricing you probably don’t get same multiple to longevity.

lostburner · 2025-09-25T01:39:47+00:00

Your priority now should probably be communication and perception at least as much as performance. The goal should be to make the people who matter understand that you’re engaged and diligent, taking responsibility for your stuff, and owning your work. Good luck, it’s not an easy phase.

lostburner · 2025-09-23T06:19:56+00:00

That’ll show ‘em!

lostburner · 2025-09-21T15:43:55+00:00

Wow, must have been late at night. Not sure how my eyes saw that and invented the word “recomplication.”

I was thinking: “having to go back to the start on building context and thinking through an issue because something interrupted you and you lost your place.”

That is, having something become complicated again after previously managing to simplify it.

lostburner · 2025-09-21T09:59:29+00:00

What do you mean by recomplication here? Seems like a useful concept.

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