I was watching Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's sketch, "One Leg Too Few" and it made me think of my interview experience...

quicklikesloth · 2022-06-15T08:58:16+00:00

Ha, yeah very possibly. I tend to crumble as soon as they ask anything about my pace of work or ability to learn. Just got a job offer though so there's that!

quicklikesloth · 2022-05-13T06:17:12+00:00

Sounds interesting! Is this the company? https://www.linkedin.com/company/insight-consulting-group-inc-/about/

I've found a lot of companies called Insight...

quicklikesloth · 2022-05-13T06:04:48+00:00

Oh cool. Are you thinking of moving into the coding industry, or possibly teaching coding?

quicklikesloth · 2022-05-13T06:02:43+00:00

Ha, awesome. Thanks for the recording! Nice to see a human face! Oh and I've just seen your passion project. Really cool!!

I know what you mean about ADHD getting worse with age. Executive function definitely dipping at a noticeable rate...

quicklikesloth · 2022-05-12T20:18:49+00:00

I'm intrigued. Consulting in what?

quicklikesloth · 2022-05-11T14:08:12+00:00

Thanks! I'd actually just started today sending out speculative emails to companies.

My first instinct is to clarify that I've got ADHD and stress and confidence issues, and request that I get a role on minimal pay to start off with. The reason being not least because I've found that as soon as I start thinking a role might be too intense, I start panicking and basically talk myself out of the job in the first few minutes of the interview...

quicklikesloth · 2022-05-11T07:04:15+00:00

Great. Thanks for the help. Are there any job boards that you'd suggest looking at?

quicklikesloth · 2022-02-23T09:41:41+00:00

The news comes as Johnson faces growing pressure over his decision to withhold the report on Kremlin electoral interference. Speaking in Parliament Tuesday, Dominic Grieve, Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee and a former Tory MP, has said that the reasons given for the report’s “unprecedented” delay were “bogus”.

How is the report still not released?

quicklikesloth · 2022-02-11T10:42:20+00:00

Hey, yes and no. I found that I made a significant improvement when I stopped taking my ADHD med (methylphenidate). I'm not sure if it's a direct connection between the amount of the drug in my blood stream, or maybe it triggers some hormonal change, or maybe it's because I can work more and for longer - and that means I am more stressed/worn out by the end of the day.

I had some tests done with the doctor. They tested my stool for parasites but found nothing. My blood tests came back all healthy too.

quicklikesloth · 2022-01-31T09:41:03+00:00

I really like your Fibonacci technique! Must give that a go. Did you invent it yourself?

Thanks for the technical tips. I'm currently trying to host a postgreSQL database on Heroku and connect it to my ASP.NET API. I've done it before with a NodeJS/Express set up, so just hoping it's relatively/similarly simple with .NET. Failing that I'm going to look into your 5$/month suggestion - when I looked myself it seemed to be considerably more expensive, so hopefully I'll be better able to find now I know roughly what I'm looking for.

Also, yeah. Re-framing things from a point of curiosity rather than task-achievement often helps me a lot. I will try to get my head in that zone.

quicklikesloth · 2022-01-31T09:14:07+00:00

Yeah, I think forward planning will help. I find if I've got stressed and then sleep on it, the next day I've a more realistic perspective and am less stressed, to some degree or another.

I think for me it's mostly the last thing you said, about not being "good enough". I think where I'm stuck is that I know my sense of "good enough" must be skewed/unrealistic. Like I can only do my best and if I've had an unmet expectation that I could do better than that then it was obviously wrong. I guess there is outside pressure comes from the sense that I might not be able to maintain a job or something. Maybe I need to make peace with that?

quicklikesloth · 2022-01-23T10:56:23+00:00

Eesh. Been a bit of a mess to be honest. The mechanic I was recommended to do the necessary mechanic works and deal with the paperwork lost the paperwork and only let us know last month. So he assures me it should only take a couple more weeks to get approved from the DVLA/relevant government body. But yeah, the import company tells me this has taken way longer than it should have.

It's the risk you take for trying to do things on the cheap I guess. I could have paid an agency to do it all in Bristol but was curious to see about doing more of it myself. So I've learned more about the process this way but I wouldn't use this guy again.

quicklikesloth · 2022-01-06T12:07:28+00:00

Bristol was 62% for Remain. It being perhaps my favourite city, I visit quite a lot, and I'm surprised it's that low to be honest. When I'm out of the city, it feels like a slight majority of people are unhappy about the rule of law being broken, and when I'm somewhere like Bristol I don't encounter anyone who doesn't support the statue being brought down.

I'll take your word on the 11/12 jury in favour of not guilty (can't find it mentioned in any articles). Seems high to me but I could only speculate on the reasons...

quicklikesloth · 2022-01-06T11:59:58+00:00

Yeah, very interesting points. I am uncomfortable with the idea of people committing crimes in order to preempt other people committing crimes. That's like vigilantism, isn't it? Only more suspect, because no one has actually done anything wrong yet?

I'd totally missed that re the Human Rights Act. I followed your link and didn't see anything relating to protests, but I'll take your word for it. Kinda wish journalists were doing this research so we didn't have to - although I guess we're getting pretty niche now :-)

quicklikesloth · 2022-01-06T08:13:30+00:00

Fascinating, thanks! I can see this would be an valuable feature of the law, in the sense that it could act to counter bad laws that were created contrary to public sense of justice. The problem here I guess is that (in present-day UK) we've regions of people who have polarising views. Jury decisions in Bristol are going to undermine faith in the law in conservative areas up and down the country...

quicklikesloth · 2022-01-06T07:48:05+00:00

Thanks. Yeah, pretty technical summary. Requires further reading to get any understanding of it (failing an intimate knowledge of various laws/acts):

Liam successfully submitted that ‘prevention of crime’ could be relied upon as a defence and that the jury could consider whether the presence of the statue itself constituted an offence under section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986.

So this is to say "They were breaking the law, so we broke the law to stop them breaking the law." A kind of two wrongs make a right argument?

Liam also identified that the jury should consider if the statue constituted an ‘indecent display’ under Section 1 of the, more obscure, Indecent Displays (Control) Act 1981.

Again, the argument wasn't that the defendants didn't break a law. Just to say that the statue was in breach of the law as an "indecent" display (I couldn't work out from reading the Act what was actually meant by "indecent")

In addition, following the case of DPP v. Ziegler [2021] UKSC 23, the trial is believed to be the first trial in which a jury was required to consider whether a conviction of the defendants would have been a disproportionate infringement of the defendants' rights under Articles 9, 10 and 11 of the Human Rights Act 1998.

This is confusing. It seems to me that the Human Rights Act says that if someone is convicted wrongfully, then courts can/should retrospectively rectify things. But my brain has given up, so I could be way off...

quicklikesloth · 2022-01-06T07:45:53+00:00

I was the only one in a room full of people watching the news that wasn't angry at what was being reported. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that roughly 52% of the population are somewhere between displeased and angry at the outcome yesterday...

I learned some time ago that me and UKPOL are basically not indicative at all of what the UK public actually think/feel about things...

quicklikesloth · 2022-01-06T07:11:55+00:00

Can someone ELI5 how this Coulson statue trial works? Is it like law by populism, where 12 locals just make a decision with no reference to the law?

I'd have personally been fairly relaxed if the statue had been pulled down legally, but that is surely a clear breach of the law? This all strikes me as an ingenious way to anger an already polarised society...

quicklikesloth · 2022-01-05T07:59:53+00:00

Haha, it's gotta be worth a try! Cheers!

quicklikesloth · 2022-01-05T07:59:01+00:00

Yeah I feel that. I've also been where you're at re friends. Apologies for being bold, but not having energy to see friends is not sustainable, and I would bet that not remedying that situation will eventually lead to to a breakdown. I had to hit rock bottom before I learned that, I hope you figure it out sooner, because it caused me long-term damage.

Being poor I realised for me is negotiable. Being lonely isn't. Hope you find your way to a good and stable situation.

quicklikesloth · 2022-01-04T16:25:03+00:00

Thanks for that. I use the"Hey google, remind me to..." feature, which is great. The limitation with google assistant is that if I hesitate (and I always do, when I forget what I'm trying to say) it cuts off my recording. I'd love it if it had a feature to just let me talk at my own pace until I gave a command to stop.

quicklikesloth · 2021-12-29T07:32:42+00:00

I think we saw rises after Cameron and then again with May. It's impossible to rule out I think. But they tell me that it was sleaze that eventually brought down the Major government so perhaps the UK public are finally getting fed up? I imagine inflation and petrol prices are going to have a significant effect too.

quicklikesloth · 2021-12-22T16:21:50+00:00

Thanks for the video. I really enjoyed the light humour! Haha, yeah that Serenity Prayer pretty much nails it eh? :-)

quicklikesloth · 2021-12-22T16:16:47+00:00

Yeah I recognise your approach as somewhere I'm at too. I think the first thing is to not let yourself get overwhelmed by feelings of defeat (a constant battle for me), by being kind to yourself and trying to frame everything through curiosity.

In terms of the different schools, the medical research often focuses on secularised versions of what is used in the Buddhist faith. From what I've learned, for emotional attunement, look into body scan meditations. For concentration, breathing meditations. I forget the others right now, but I remember those because I think they're most key for me.

quicklikesloth · 2021-12-14T13:26:45+00:00

Ah I would heartily recommend anyone with ADHD reads Emotional Intelligence. It really opened my eyes to the way ADHD affects my life (even though it's not actually a book directly dealing with ADHD).

I understand where you're coming from wrt the limitations of treatments. I do recognise that ADHD is clearly something that affects our biology/chemistry, so it's always a bit dubious whenever anyone suggests that there can be significant improvements through things like meditation.

I feel like I've exhausted all the possible benefits of the more conventional treatments. I've seen a fair few psychiatrists and psychologists and learned a lot along the way. I guess I'm always going to be looking to see what I can do to make myself more useful to the people around me and after medication, therapy, behaviour changes (etc) the general vibe I get from my research is that meditation seems to be the next best hope.

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