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Seconding. This would be great to see.

Some of the smartest people I've worked with were self-taught.

https://thinking-about-things.com/ is great, it's one interesting article three times a week. I've learned about a lot of interesting blogs/publications from them.

Sounds like undiagnosed ADHD. Coffee, walking/running in the morning, and going to sleep on time were the answers for me.

Thinking About Things: https://thinking-about-things.com

I've personally benefited a lot from Thinking About Things, a newsletter that emails me a couple of blog posts every week. https://thinking-about-things.com

Thinking About Things is what you're looking for. https://www.thinking-about-things.com

The Advanced Beginner blog post series by Robert Heaton is great.

Read Something Interesting [0] (and its newsletter form Thinking About Things [1]) are great for classic general blog posts.

[0] https://readsomethinginteresting.com

[1] https://thinking-about-things.com

I've found that a great way to discover new interesting blogs is the Thinking About Things newsletter [0]. They were on hiatus for a while but seem to be back now. I've gotten some great reads from them.

[0] https://thinking-about-things.com

Coffee and exercise. Even just running in place to a 5 minute song does wonders.

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Matt Lakeman, Scott Alexander, Maciej Cegłowski, Wait But Why.

Highly recommend the Thinking About Things newsletter which sends me individually interesting blog posts. https://www.thinking-about-things.com

How about working out? I recently found out that the most productive engineer on my team runs every morning before work which makes a lot of sense. He's always firing on all cylinders.

Many unmedicated people with ADHD have this problem and have figured out their own process for working through the funk period.

On a personal level, exercise and coffee have been magical for me. When I'm not feeling it, the task is getting to the coffee pot, but once I'm there the motivation comes on its own. Walking 40-60 minutes outside does wonders as well.

Blogs: Joel Spolsky, Rands in Repose, Will Larson are classics

Books: Crafting Interpreters, the AOSA book

Dang is an unappreciated treasure of HN who does not get enough credit. Thank you dang.

Surprised not to be hearing more about Tumblr. It's got the infrastructure... it would just need to develop a more serious vibe.

This is great. I would love to see engines of custom curated content, like the readsomethinginteresting.com blogs or academic articles.

https://www.thinking-about-things.com and https://www.readsomethinginteresting.com are great.

A great resource to find new blogs is the Thinking About Things newsletter. Been getting it for a while and it's a great way to find new blogs to read.

How are you feeling?

Another great literary magazine/publication is Thinking About Things (https://thinking-about-things.com), which (as far as I remember) doesn't feature anything from the 12 months previous.

Not Youtube, but I've found Thinking About Things (www.thinking-about-things.com) another great place to find reading material for the intellectually curious.

No need to be so cruel and judgemental towards others. OP is begging for help and all you can do is mock him?

www.readsomethinginteresting.com / www.thinking-about-things.com are both pretty good aggregators.

I really resonate with the part about people having opinions without having any background of the issue... kind of like how everyone who had a PhD in epidemiology in 2020 suddenly has a PhD in Russian history.

www.readsomethinginteresting.com, place to find new things to read

> The point is that all people see are my successes. They see this book in its finished form, but are shielded away from the tortuous months I spent writing it. They aren’t aware of just how many hours I spent fighting with LaTeX. Or of cajoling my designer-then-girlfriend to help me pick fonts. Or from the countless sleepless nights I spent spinning the ideas around in my head, trying as best I could to find something, anything, to grab on to.

> None of it was exceptionally difficult. Mostly it was just tedious

Excellent point. I've found this to be true in my life as well.

I installed a parental control app on my phone to make it automatically turn off at 10:30 PM. It's a small move that made a world of difference and I've been going to sleep much earlier as a result. (The "parent" doesn't need to be an actual parent, it can be a friend too.)