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I've found the opposite when using Anki myself. The process of developing the deck is a critical part of learning the material for me. I consume my target language, see something I don't understand, figure out what it means, then put it into the deck - and _then_ practice it. To cut out the whole first part of that chain by using a premade deck eradicates much of the learning process for me (I've tried).

I've been using Anki for a few years and have never experienced it as neglected. There are regular updates and a big community contributing knowledge, add-ins, etc.

Just for myself. Helps me consolidate my own thoughts and learnings. Sometimes I google something and my own blog comes up. That gives me a bit of a laugh (and is sometimes useful).

This doesn't really seem like a competitor to OP? I think it might solve different needs. One looks like a straightforward tracking app and yours looks like some kind of training/lifestyle program.

I really like the initiative. I've been using a free app on Android for many many years. My favorite things about it are that it's simple, no social media integration that I know of, nothing fancy or trying to suggest a routine - just record set/reps/weights and that's it. Backs up data via Google Drive or plain file export if I need to switch devices. It's so nice to have years of history in terms of PRs, volume, etc.

These are entry-level courses that don't require previous university studies. There are some basic eligibility requirements, but those are just high-school level. As I gain credits over time there'll be increasingly more options, but even without there are plenty of interesting ground-level courses across different faculties to take.

Do I have to pick? I moved to a university town last year and started registering for whatever sounds interesting. There are so many fascinating things to learn about! My first ever university course ended up being about nuclear weapons. I just finished the second, about the research front in life sciences. Next term I'm hoping to take a cosmology course. And just unofficially dropping in to some philosophy paper reading sessions. I'm only taking one course per term, always part-time evening classes as I work full time so this is purely a recreational thing. I want to study _everything_.

Aside from the challenges you mentioned I just want to say that this looks really cool, and at first glance looks like a great way to also just bond with your partner while learning.

Totally agree and I do all those things. My desire for a calm, non-gamified learning app would not be a replacement for all other methods.

I'd love an app like this. I usually go through my Anki deck in bed before sleep and in the morning and am always on the lookout for other language learning methods. Being in bed, I don't want anything too gamified or exciting during that time. Just some calm/chill practice before I sleep.

* What made it worth it was just the act of blogging itself. For me writing down what I've learned is a great way to consolidate that knowledge for myself. And making it public also inspires me to spend a bit more time thinking about it and double-checking some things before putting it out there. Sometimes I get a nice comment on a years-old blog post and that's also rewarding. Additionally, sometimes I search for something and have my own years-old blog post come up, reminding me that I already solved that thing before and can reuse the solution.

* All posts have worked to consolidate knowledge and help me think.

* Since you're just trying to build a public notebook, what are you trying to lower the bar to? Your own writing motivation or something else? If the former, just write to the length/cadence/themes you're interested in and don't write what you're not interested in.

* Maybe I'd go back and tell pretty-much-teenage-me to stop being so cringe because this stuff will still be there 20 years later.

At work I'm working on autonomous agents for web application testing, and in my spare time I've been taking some part-time evening courses at the local university for the first time.

Last term I did a course on nuclear weapons and disarmament (and learned to write my first ever academic report!)[0], and this term I'm just about to give a final presentation for an introductory life sciences course (actually just posted a runthrough recording [1]). Next term I'm hoping to get into a course about cosmology!

[0] https://liza.io/categories/2fk064/

[1] https://liza.io/the-body-electric-manipulating-large-scale-a...

Icarus - the way it went from a semi-interesting topic of a guy doing steroid self-experimentation to blowing open a whole Russian doping operation brought me joy.

Self-publishing books. Low barrier to entry, high barrier to sustainable profitability.

What about approaching it from the other direction, where instead of trying to physically inhibit the thing you don't want to be doing you aggressively fill your schedule with things you _do_ want to be doing instead?

What do you want to do instead of digital media consumption? If you do more of those you'll naturally have less time for browsing.

For me, that's been taking up the following (the specific items change with time, but when I notice myself spending more time mindlessly scrolling it is a good reminder that I need something else to keep me busy):

* Running (with race goals) - doing this 4x a week sure takes up a lot of my time.

* Physical meetups (local philosophy groups, museum events, actively scheduling coffee with friends, etc)

* Crafts (cross stitch - started when I took on an ambitious Birthday gift project for my boyfriend and now it's kind of a meditative experience)

* Studying (part-time university course where I have to read a paper and complete a study guide once a week)

Those four things, along with full time work, don't leave much time for mindless scrolling unless I intentionally want to just chill and schedule a block of that in (and I don't feel guilty about doing that anymore because with all the other stuff enriching my life I feel there's nothing wrong with some occasional browsing).

I've also been more likely to cry at movies. Not so much at people's sad experiences in real life, but I've found myself tearing up sometimes with someone I really care about sharing a dream or nostalgic childhood memory. Fortunately I've experienced goosebumps with music (frisson!) since I was a kid, and even tried to learn how to induce it on command (has not reliably worked).

Overall my ability to empathize still feels a little dulled sometimes. But it's hard to tell since you can't really compare it directly to another's experience, only observe how others seem to react... Maybe in its own way this is a bit of a "What is it like to be a bat?" situation.

I always thought of empathy as being able to really relate, emotionally, to what another person is feeling/going through. As a kid I'd sometimes see people crying together on TV when something bad happens to one of them and wonder if that really happens in real life. Even though it wasn't something that came naturally to me in the past, I still tried to be a decent person and adjust my behavior where relevant, and tried to learn to comfort people even when I didn't really "feel" much. I just had to reason/logic about how a person might feel sometimes rather than intuitively "get" it.

Over the last couple of years, that kind of empathy has stated coming more easily/naturally to me. On one hand it seems to have unlocked a richer range of relatability, but on the other it also seemed to open the door more to anxiety, self-doubt, and other not so easy emotions that I didn't really feel much of before.

For my run training agent hobby project I'm just building my own, it's fun and lets me focus on building stuff rather than wrangling frameworks.

I could have sworn there was a seahorse emoji...

I don't feel worried about how others perceive me in these situations.

I just say that: "I don't know, but I'll get back to you [today/after the meeting/after my current task/whatever]."

Or if it's another developer and it would be useful: "I don't know, but let's find out." (and then we can look at the code together).

Hmm I wouldn't say I feel anxious during this, nor nervous before social situations. People around me would say I'm overall a social and outgoing person. It's more just playing a certain part of yourself that is relevant for the situation. It can be tiring in large doses, but not anxiety-inducing.

I've mentioned to relevant people a couple of times in the past that I generally feel like I am "acting" in most social situations. Like I have an idea as to who/how I need to be in that moment and act accordingly. I'm used to it and it's not really something very conscious in the moment, but if the event lasts a long time it gets kind of draining since you have parallel tracks going - reading the room, predicting what reaction someone expects at any time, issuing that reaction, etc. It's not that I don't enjoy the events, but I can "fill up" on interaction quickly and want to go home early to recharge.

I figured that was just being an introvert.

The evolution of smart glasses has totally passed me by since the Google Glass thing. Whenever I heard about them I just thought they were still in the "gimmick" stage. But last week I heard about Meta glasses for the first time and realized that people actually seem to use them, in a practical way?

If these things are now to the point of realistic adoption, I'd be interested in getting a pair, specifically to record and get on demand info/maps/AI integration maybe on runs, hikes, and other adventure/exploration-type settings... and recording my cats... But now a whole can of questions is opened:

- What products are developed enough this area that are worth choosing between?

- Don't trust meta due to privacy and data exploitation concerns. Are any other products on the same level in terms of hardware + software quality, or is it just going to have to be a compromise (or waiting until something else is good enough?)

- Responsiveness/UX/photo/video quality etc...

Part of me kind of wishes I was still ignorant to the advancements of these so I could keep ignoring them as a gimmick and not be tempted to dive into researching the product category...

I do, but that's not what I'm looking for. If you annotate a PDF directly you then have to detangle your notes from the PDF on export. It is very different from having a document open that you can scroll/flip through and taking notes in their own space at the same time.

I have a RMPP and like it for reading and briefly annotating papers, journaling, drafting fiction. But I am so disappointed that they do not have split screen functionality. One of the core use cases for the device is reading a document and taking notes on it. Not being able to have a PDF open on one side of the screen and a notebook on the other is a huge miss.

Having worked at a company with a collective agreement in Sweden, nothing within it restricted my salary or my ability to negotiate as an individual. Upon coming into effect, the agreement simply gave me more vacation days and set a minimum yearly raise to keep up with inflation (one that was always surpassed and enhanced further with individual performance bonuses etc).

One of my cursor rules is literally: `Never, ever say "You're absolutely right!"`

Started in QA in 2008, moved to build, then tools engineer, core tech, backend, etc etc. I wouldn't say I'm self-taught though - there were a few excellent and thorough code reviewers on my teams early on who taught me a ton.