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Fully agree with you, I just want to point out that Norway has a very strict stance against all drugs, so much so that you can lose your drivers license for having cannabis metabolites in your blood due too a lack of "soberness". It's mental.

My 15 inch mbp 2019 got super hot when I ran the dock (with HDMI and keyboard) on the same side as the charger. Having them on opposite sides helped loads with the temperature. YMMV

It's a bit crappy for people living in the immediate vicinity but that's just a tiny fraction of the people who get value from nearby local businesses. The housing prices also reflect that and it's usually cheaper rent if you're above/next to a popular grocery store, bar or restaurant.

I am extremely biased as I'm in my mid twenties and don't even have a driver's license as the only time it comes in handy in Oslo is if you're moving furniture.

Good for you. Anecdotally I'd lose touch with casual acquaintances/friends and spontaneous meetups if someone had to send me an SMS to get in touch with me, and people under 30 will corroborate that.

I wasn't saying anything about government regulations, don't put words in my mouth.

Yes, It's a huge sacrifice not to use the primary (and in most cases only) messaging and event organising platform in your local network. And usually that platform is Messenger or WhatsApp. Sometimes it's IG.

And yes, feel free to argue that you can still be reached on SMS, Signal or Telegram or literally any other messaging platform. But good luck convincing even your closest friends and family to join.

Not at all, of course you need to stay informed about the knowledge, actors and networks you're participating in. I think we agree here, it's a balance. I'd say optimally 5-30% reading, 95-70% doing. But it depends on what you enjoy, want to spend time on, goals, and other personal factors. If you enjoy reading; read.

Also, my post was about my own experiences and observations and was a direct response to quietthrow - he seemed distraught and the emotional angle seemed more fitting than a neutral and balanced response.

I'm not going to expand too much on this because I haven't made up my own mind about it either, but you strike me as being in the same position.

I've grown up online, constantly consuming information and thus building up what to me seemed like a large body of useful knowledge on topics from comp. sci, data science, history, psychology, business, marketing and more.

The issue is that just constantly reading articles, books and consuming information has made me think I'm knowledgable, but in reality that knowledge is superficial, shallow, fleeting and hard to act on. Anything I think I know takes way longer to do because of unknown unknowns and a myriad of other factors you just don't get exposed to.

To use knowledge you need to internalize and create mental connections and the only way of doing so is by actually doing - not consuming. You may feel smart when you recall something you read months or years ago and share it in a relevant situation - but that's just a tiny fraction of what you've consumed. People don't learn by reading, they learn by doing.

The question: "why am I spending so much time consuming instead of acting" is an important question to ask oneself and for me the answer is that doing is boring. My brain has been hijacked by easy dopamine from games, forums (like HN and Reddit), YouTube and even Spotify. All of these easy, on-demand sources of digital dopamine have made all other activities harder to do without getting bored out of my mind. For instance I was learning Ansible 20 minute ago, but I got bored and started wasting time on HN instead.

Anyways, while I do enjoy FS, lesswrong, and a handful of other industry bloggers, blogs and aggregators I came to the realization that reading isn't furthering my goals. Only directed attention, effort and completing discrete projects will bring me to where I want to be.

More reading: Deep Work - Cal Newport. "Digital Detox" https://www.reddit.com/r/nosurf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqlfWDyS1Io

Ps. It's easy to waste time reading about this too. My biggest realization has been that using any forms of digital feeds in the morning wrecks my attention span most of the day.

I'll also add that product analytics software is built more towards measuring depth of engagement: How many times has this user returned to our site? What is the average LTV of this cohort? What is cohort X's n-day retention compared to cohort Y? What features have correlation to those differences? Did this experiment lead to improvements in retention - 30 days later?

Google isn't built to go that deep. Sure you can see that 3% of users have used feature X, but you can't really effectively dig in and see how upstream or downstream actions and events influence each other. Sure you can create some custom segments on a sessions/user level - but that quickly turns complex and unwieldy if you have several segments, cohorts and funnels. Also there are a lot of charts that are just plain better in product analytics tools. Retention charts, funnels and path diagrams are obvious examples.