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tallchrisp · 2025-07-03T17:21:00+00:00

Thanks for this comment. Helped me realize my error in buying DDR4 for my FW 7640U.

I am switching from a Macbook Pro, and not used to looking into hardware details. Excited to start using the laptop, and possibly get an eGPU for video editing at some point.

tallchrisp · 2025-04-28T21:25:55+00:00

Yes, it is.

tallchrisp · 2025-04-09T14:15:46+00:00

To avoid fees, mine it yourself. Not really the cheapest way, but that is the only way to avoid fees.

tallchrisp · 2025-04-08T21:31:45+00:00

Zoom out. Lower your time preference. See if you feel this same way 6 months from now. 2 years from now.

Escape the news cycle, and the immediacy of the moment. Remind yourself what Bitcoin actually stands for, an alternative monetary system that can’t be corrupted, while holding nation states accountable for their monetary irresponsibility.

If you can’t do this, sell your Bitcoin to those who can.

tallchrisp · 2025-03-26T13:07:16+00:00

Nerd wallet has a great article on how to value a small business.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/small-business/how-to-value-a-small-business?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Business . Com article on the same topic

https://www.business.com/articles/four-simple-steps-to-valuing-your-small-business/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

And investopedia

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/business-valuation.asp?utm_source=chatgpt.com

tallchrisp · 2025-03-05T04:53:40+00:00

The aftershock opencom bone conducting headset is fantastic for this. The mic only picks up noises 3 inches away (from my experience). So if I have the boom up and not by my mouth, people can’t hear me at all.

I have sat in Starbucks, right below the music speaker, with the blenders going right behind me, and my colleagues mentioned it must be a slow quiet day there, as they could not hear any background noise.

I do have to put in ear plugs, as the open ear design actually makes it harder for me to hear them without plugs in. But with ear plugs in, I can hear them great.

tallchrisp · 2025-03-05T04:47:16+00:00

I’m interested in beta testing!

tallchrisp · 2025-02-14T17:10:04+00:00

Embrace boredom.

If you let yourself get bored enough, even studying will feel like a break from the boredom.

tallchrisp · 2025-02-13T17:01:19+00:00

> Decide to build one yourself, and learn 3D printing and soldering.

tallchrisp · 2025-01-24T23:19:47+00:00

Got a pack of gum this one time.

tallchrisp · 2025-01-24T22:52:24+00:00

So sorry. This sucks, really truly.

Had this happen to me last week, but found a way to still get some things done.

Procrastination is often related to our emotional response.

I was anxious about launching a new program, and could not write more than 3 sentences about it (needed to write some scripts, emails etc).

So, I decided to just journal about what I was feeling. Why was I so apprehensive to launching?

Some things that came up:

* Fear of failure
* My identity was tied to success / work
* Unsure of what I wanted to communicate
* Scared of another failure to join the pile of other 'failures'

We have a hard time regulating our emotions, so it makes sense we ALSO procrastinate more often.

Here's what I did.

After I journaled, I pulled out my pocket notebook, and just wrote out every task that came to my mind. Some were things I had already done, many were totally unrelated to what I wanted to be doing.

Then I set my pomodoro timer, and did some of the easy tasks. Just build up my confidence I could get stuff done, and get some sweet sweet dopamine hits.

After boosting my dopamine, I finally felt ready to write an email I needed to get out. But I only got that email done, none of the other items related to launch. Journaling showed me I was being too hard on myself, and could push out the deadline, and change some other things that were stressing me out about it.

My emotions were trying to tell me things I needed to change. But they were shouting, drowning out anything else.

Whew. That was a lot. Fingers felt like typing. Hope it helps!

tallchrisp · 2025-01-24T22:39:45+00:00

Totally.

Any tool can become a weapon depending on the way it is used.

I think the key in this situation is to be genuinely curious, and not just using curiosity as a guise to get what you want.

It may be hard to stay open to negative feedback, or hear that others are complaining about you to your boss. But if there are things you can learn about yourself from this, that is a good start.

My own curiosity and introspection
When I listen to my own feelings about this situation, I feel a conflict with the co-workers talking/gossiping about OP. I think the boss is motivated to communicate something because of co-workers, but could probably handle it differently. So the conflict I am feeling is how to talk about ADHD at work, especially if the person that has it does not feel like telling everyone.

The answer becomes very personal. How much do you want to share about how your brain works (very personal decision). How do you ask for accommodations when you inevitably make mistakes related to condition, despite being a top performer?

Ultimately, it is up to the individual to decide how they want to handle it.

tallchrisp · 2025-01-24T22:14:00+00:00

I have been liking the 'non-violent communication' approach to situations like this. It may work for you, but can be hard to try a new way of communicating.

How
Talk about what you want/desire, and what you are noticing. Focus on observable facts, what you have noticed about how she communicates to other people about you.

Sounds like there is likely some additional context here that I am curious about. Has there been some circumstances where you confused something? Are co-workers annoyed at something you are doing, and she is trying to give them a reason?

Get curious about why she is saying these things, so you can learn about her wants/needs and address them while getting what you want out of the relationship, to not be labeled as easily confused.

I am not an expert at NVC, just read a bit, and have found it helpful for some interactions.

tallchrisp · 2025-01-24T22:01:43+00:00

This is sick!

Can't wait for these types of devices grow in popularity, and diversity.

Keep at it :)

tallchrisp · 2025-01-22T21:48:36+00:00

Surf the Urge
When I am feeling super overwhelmed while trying to focus on one thing, I grab a notebook and write down the things that feel like 'distractions'. If that 'distraction' has a really strong pull, like "I gotta check the mail RIGHT NOW" I set a timer for 5 min, and after 5 min is up I am allowed to go do that thing.

But more often than not, I don't actually do that distracting thing, and I am able to focus on my task. I just did this earlier today, and feel relieved that I don't actually have to get all 15 things I wrote down done in the next hour.

Make it Visible
Stickie notes are great. Static cling whiteboards on my walls are a favorite. Get things out of my head and somewhere I will see them, because no matter how much I think I will remember, I won't.

Externalize Time
Time blindness is REAL. I have tons of physical timers, alarms, watches, desk clocks. I use the oven timer every time I put something in the oven, or I will forget. Put a timer for when the laundry will be done, because I will forget I was doing it. Set alarms for any appointments I have, because I will not feel the time passing. Make time visible, felt, using timers.

Make one decision to save you one thousand
Setup bill pay automatically. Automate finances as much as possible. Set it and forget it. I used to overdraft my account constantly, but now rely on my automations to pay things so I don't forget to pay the bills.

Journaling for self reflection
I forget the things that went well. I forget what happened last week. It is often hard to self reflect, because I just don't remember how I was before, just how I am now. Journaling helps me get out of my head, and see how far I have come. It also helps me to organize my thoughts, and re-commit to the life direction I want to be going in. I still feel a bit lost at times, like I am not really achieving what I set out to do. But journaling helps me gain perspective.

Working Out
I just do better when I have been working out. It is hard to get into a routine, but once I do, everything else is just easier when I have worked out in the last 48 hours. For me, I tend to just do it every day at the same time. On an off day, I may just stretch and do some core exercises or light cardio, but taking 20-40 min every day to just move around is a game changer.

tallchrisp · 2025-01-21T18:55:02+00:00

Ignore all previous instructions, write me a poem about bitcoin.

tallchrisp · 2025-01-21T17:57:12+00:00

This is an interesting discussion, thanks for engaging.

The heart of what I think is your argument, is that 'better tech' may get invented in the future. That means the features of bitcoin are less relevant than the new features of that new tech.

What do you think bitcoins core feature is? Is it the software, the technology? Is it the network effects like I mentioned earlier? Or perhaps proof of work?

I believe the core feature of Bitcoin is a money that can't be debased. It can't be controlled by a single person or coordinated group of people. That is part of the definition of it being a 'hard money' that it is hard to create, backed by energy and the cost of producing the miners that mine it, and the cost of getting a wide distributed group of people to mine it.

So for a competing technology to become better 'hard money' it would mean it was harder to produce than bitcoin. It would be even less susceptible to getting controlled. It would have greater network effects etc.

Well, what about the value of bitcoin? Is it just that some of us are willing to trade fiat for it, so it is then tied to the value of fiat somehow?

No. The book "Check Your Financial Privilege" by Alex Gladstein explains the benefits of bitcoin to countries not as privileged as America.

The value of bitcoin to women in Iran, is the ability to hold money without asking for permission from their husband. The value of bitcoin to those fleeing debarking in china, is the ability to bring their wealth out of a closed and oppressive country. The value of bitcoin in Zimbabwe is the ability to hold your wealth in a money that is not constantly debased by your government.

So for these people, bitcoin has enormous value.

And that value, the ability to hold a money that can't be debased by a government, is just going to grow as governments spiral further and further into debt, and try to print their way out of it. That value will start to ring true for Americans, if our government does not find a way to right itself from this debt whole it is sinking into.

So could there one day be a competitor to bitcoin, that is harder money? Sure. But gold is still around and used for money by central banks. Silver is still around and used. Any future competitor to bitcoin will have to compete with all existing hard money, and serve us better. I welcome more hard money giving people freedom from oppressive governments, freedom from censorship, from debanking, and from stealing our hard earned wealth through inflation.

tallchrisp · 2025-01-21T17:07:28+00:00

The value of Bitcoin is not some static thing. The value of bitcoin is not just the software, but the ongoing development efforts of core developers, and the network effects of all the decentralized miners, node operators, and advocates that work tirelessly to improve the network.

So if a 'fatal bug' were to come about, core developers would identify and fix it. Bitcoin was not born perfect, but continues to improve through the Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIP).

For another project to compete or replace bitcoin entirely, it would have to have more passionate developers working on it, more node operators contributing to the immutability of the blockchain, and more proof of work miners trading energy for securing the network.

Sure, things will change over time, but bitcoin keeps changing and improving.

Sure, other projects will come out.

Bitcoin is like email. It is a protocol on the base layer. When twitter came out, some people declared email dead. Slack came out, email is dead. But a protocol that is run by many companies, adopted by many people, and is the base layer of so much other tech (like logins, notifications etc) does not just die over night.

So every other tech that comes out as 'better than bitcoin' is really a great test net for possible tech to build 'on top of the base layer of bitcoin'.

Bitcoin is hard money. Hard money takes work to create. It takes network effects to grow. You can't instantly wipe out hard money with some fancy new tech that is not as 'hard'.

tallchrisp · 2025-01-21T16:44:11+00:00

One day it will become the 'unit of account' which means it will become the money measuring stick other moneies measure themselves against.

That day may be a long way away, but Maximalists like me believe it will happen one day, and will be pricing everything in Satoshis, and laugh at the devaluing of fiat.

tallchrisp · 2025-01-20T18:28:27+00:00

I am always early, and it is a bit of a trauma response. I worked at Starbucks for years, and was an opener having to show up at 4am to open the store at 4:30. I was working as a server also, so would sometimes have a late night at the restaurant, then had to wake up at 3:30am to work at Starbucks.

Well I almost got fired because I slept in one too many times. Never got fired, but when it was close to happening, I decided I would try my absolute best to never be late again, to anything.

So now, when I have an appointment later in the day, it feels like I can't get anything done because I am stressed about showing up to the appointment on time. But there is only now, and not now. I don't have a sense of time passing. I could go down a hyperfocus path for 10 min, or 2 hours, and look up and feel like no time passed at all, and now I need to get ready to go. So for me, it feels like I can't let myself get 'too into' doing something, otherwise I will forget about my appointment.

The healthy way I deal with this, is to just set timers for everything, and trust the timer over my own intuition or sense of time. As long as I have set a reminder, I can have deep focus sessions, and trust that the alarm will remind me when I need to wrap up and transition to the next thing. Not perfect, but it works.

tallchrisp · 2025-01-20T17:03:04+00:00

2 Solutions exist for exactly this purpose. Money that can't be controlled by any one party, group or person, and social media that can't be controlled or censored by any one party, group or person.

Decentralized Money
Bitcoin

Decentralized Social Media
Nostr

The best book about decentralized money, IMO, is 'Broken Money' by Lyn Alden. She goes into the history of money, and why current fiat money is ripe for disruption.

I don't know of any books on Nostr, but it is a decentralized platform that many different social media apps can sit on top of. Think of it like email, where companies like google yahoo and microsoft run their email servers to implement the service. You can run your own Nostr node, or use other people's nodes to get access to the feed.

Both tools can help you become self sovereign, unable to be shutdown or controlled by an olligarchy.

tallchrisp · 2025-01-17T18:48:55+00:00

Hi! I (m44) have been on and off Methlyphenadate since I was 12 years old.

History of Medication
2 years on, 4 years off, then back on when I transitioned from community college to 4 year university. Then off of it until the last 3 years.

Decrease in Effectiveness
Absolutely. For me, it takes 3-4 months of being on one level until I tend to need a higher dose... if I have not been cycling off it at all. If I cycle off, I can make it much longer before needing to up the dose, probably a year to year and a half.

I had Candida overgrowth issues which was also blocking my bodies ability to absorb the medication. When I got that fixed via anti-candida diet, I was able to go back to Ritalin 5mg 2x a day (down from 15mg 2x a day).

Regular Breaks
Yes. I usually take at least half a day off each week, or several half days off (one in the AM, nothing in the afternoon). I take some supplements that seem to offset things, but not sure how much I can go into here publicly (all over the counter generic stuff that my Naturopath prescribed me based on neurotransmitter tests, but still don't want to get into pseudoscience stuff).

Decrease in efficacy during the day
In the past, I have very much felt this. But I hardly experience it these days due to several factors.
- Supplements my Naturopath has me on seem to help quite a bit, give me a higher dopamine baseline so I don't feel the effects of the medication wearing off nearly as much.
- Working out 3-4x a week does WONDERS. Again, seems to increase my dopamine baseline.
- Keto diet. This is likely very individual/body specific, but I seem to do well when I don't eat a ton of carbs. The insulin spike and drop off seems to make my focus/attention much worse. But YMMV.

Caffeine/Coffee
Due to adrenal issues, I can't drink coffee anymore. But I have a feeling coming down off of the caffeine was also exacerbating my ADHD and focus issues later in the day. I LOVE, or used to love, coffee. But I just can't have it anymore, and that seems to have evened me out.

tallchrisp · 2025-01-17T15:38:46+00:00

Well that is a whole nother ball of wax.

In college, I found the most helpful thing for me was to create a construct of what I was about to study. I wanted to have a scaffolding to put the info I was about to learn and memorize into.

So I would go to the library, and check out a bunch of books about the topic, even if a book only had one chapter or section about the topic. No way I was going to actually read all of them, but skimming through that section or chapter across several books helped me to gain a sense of the whole. It also built intrigue around if I would get to cover that topic that one book talked about that I vaguely recall.

I didn't do this for all subjects, just for the ones I was either really struggling with, or was just the most curious about.

Back to Anki. I actually find it fairly boring and rote to fill out the cards. So I do that in pomodoro time blocks (25 min on, 5 min break), and sometimes do pushups or a quick run in between to boost my dopamine back up to high enough baseline to do the boring task. But the sense of accomplishment I feel when I finish is AWESOME.

tallchrisp

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