> I love HN. I check it out basically for hours every day, for the past 5 years or so.
been there done that
> But, HN is utter hell too… it’s worse than my addiction to The Guardian.
For me it was spiegel.de ... since age of 16. I'm now in my late 30s. They helped me get a grip on it by introducing paid content. Given that I don't even like their quality of journalism that much since more than a decade. I mostly go there to annoy myself. Yeah, I guess for ADHD stricken minds that counts as entertainment.
> I see so many topics I’m interested in, so many cool projects, so I bookmark them. Then I see more and bookmark them too. There’s a never ending number of things I bookmark.
I never really got into bookmarking. I just open lots of tabs and read through them. Then I forget about it and sooner or later I close the browser. Of course I don't start new sessions where I left off for a reason.
> But the constant reality is that I will never ever be able to do all the things in my brain. It’s a severely frustrating and depressing fact I feel faced with every day. A world of highs and disappointment.
That's life. If you think about it - time and its investment is always linear for a single person while knowledge is created exponentially ... so, even if you'd live forever you couldn't get a hold on it.
> But I’m totally addicted because there’s just so much new.
And so much old!
> Anyone else with ADHD feel this way or have a healthier outlook about HN?
Well - meditation - zen meditation - breath meditation - that's what helps me. Nothing else. It's this with devotion or misery.
been there done that
> But, HN is utter hell too… it’s worse than my addiction to The Guardian.
For me it was spiegel.de ... since age of 16. I'm now in my late 30s. They helped me get a grip on it by introducing paid content. Given that I don't even like their quality of journalism that much since more than a decade. I mostly go there to annoy myself. Yeah, I guess for ADHD stricken minds that counts as entertainment.
> I see so many topics I’m interested in, so many cool projects, so I bookmark them. Then I see more and bookmark them too. There’s a never ending number of things I bookmark.
I never really got into bookmarking. I just open lots of tabs and read through them. Then I forget about it and sooner or later I close the browser. Of course I don't start new sessions where I left off for a reason.
> But the constant reality is that I will never ever be able to do all the things in my brain. It’s a severely frustrating and depressing fact I feel faced with every day. A world of highs and disappointment.
That's life. If you think about it - time and its investment is always linear for a single person while knowledge is created exponentially ... so, even if you'd live forever you couldn't get a hold on it.
> But I’m totally addicted because there’s just so much new.
And so much old!
> Anyone else with ADHD feel this way or have a healthier outlook about HN?
Well - meditation - zen meditation - breath meditation - that's what helps me. Nothing else. It's this with devotion or misery.