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> How to avoid digital autism and let your mind rest and recover

This line couldn't have been written by someone who's opinion I respect or care about. Basically stopped right there.

Same. That being said I googled the term and it's not as derogatory as I thought[0], still not good though.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5849631/

I'm more against how oxymoronic it sounds. Many of the smartest programmers who I've worked with are on the autism spectrum, so I don't really see what the writer is lobbying against. Conflating a biological disability like autism with the choice of being lethargic or easily-impressed is just terrible writing, on an objective level. Their simile basically entirely operates on your willingness to give into bias.

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