Programming computers can be crazy-making. Other professions give you the luxury of seeing tangible proof of your efforts.
A watchmaker can watch the cogs and wheels; a seamstress can watch the seams come together with each stitch.
But programmers design, build, and repair the stuff of imagination, ghostly mechanisms that escape the senses.
Our work takes place not in RAM, not in an editor, but within our own minds.
Building models in the mind is both the challenge and the joy of program-
ming. How should we prepare for it?
Arm ourselves with better debuggers,
decompilers, and disassemblers?
They help, but our most essential tools and techniques are mental.
We need a consistent and practical methodology for
thinking about software problems.
From the Preface of "Thinking FORTH" by L. Brodie
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Isn't it beautiful?
ghci> :type Nothing
Nothing :: Maybe a
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If you spend a lot of time on social networks and other cheap-dopamine, "funny" things on your phone, try grayscale.
There is grayscale on iPhone and Bedtime on Android, perfectly paired with Do Not Disturb/Focus modes.
Personally, I wasn't using Bedtime because of two things:
1. I have a lot of work (job, self-study, writing here, etc.), and I enjoy doing it.
2. Since Nothing OS 2, there is a gray icons mode out of the box and a wallpaper "AI" generator, which makes it easy to generate stylish abstract black and white pictures. So I used it because it just feels nice, especially since I was already aiming for really short screen time.
If grayscale/Bedtime is too tough for you, you may start with scheduling it only for a few hours of focused work, or event just start with a boring wallpaper and monochrome icons.
And remember, there is no "too small time window" for doing or learning something.
I will try it out and let you know if it helps me use this brick even less, because there is still room for improvement.
As reference:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340421051_True_colors_Grayscale_setting_reduces_screen_time_in_college_students
There is grayscale on iPhone and Bedtime on Android, perfectly paired with Do Not Disturb/Focus modes.
Personally, I wasn't using Bedtime because of two things:
1. I have a lot of work (job, self-study, writing here, etc.), and I enjoy doing it.
2. Since Nothing OS 2, there is a gray icons mode out of the box and a wallpaper "AI" generator, which makes it easy to generate stylish abstract black and white pictures. So I used it because it just feels nice, especially since I was already aiming for really short screen time.
If grayscale/Bedtime is too tough for you, you may start with scheduling it only for a few hours of focused work, or event just start with a boring wallpaper and monochrome icons.
And remember, there is no "too small time window" for doing or learning something.
I will try it out and let you know if it helps me use this brick even less, because there is still room for improvement.
As reference:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340421051_True_colors_Grayscale_setting_reduces_screen_time_in_college_students
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