I don’t think that’s the right way to think about it. It’s not like they were Latinizing Turkish with ASCII in mind. They wanted a one-to-one mapping between letters and sounds. The dot versus no dot marks where in your mouth or throat the vowel is formed. They didn’t have this concept that capital I automatically pairs with lowercase i. The dot was always part of the letter itself. The reform wasn’t trying to fit existing Western conventions, it was trying to map the Turkish sounds to symbols.
They switched from Arabic script to Latin script. They literally did latinize Turkish, but they ditched the convention of 1 to 1 correspondence between lowercase and uppercase letters that is invariant across all languages that use Latin script except for German script, Turkish script and its offspring Azerbaijani script.
I don't recall the exact language but it was rather flame-war-esque in a comment full of otherwise benign discourse. The issue isn't liberals or conservatives being mentioned. In what way do you think I broke the rules? That it wasn't a substantive comment on its own? I didn't feel the pull to silently flag and hoped for GP to elaborate.
It wasn't that clear to me. Do you mean by the fact that he started the Chilico company and tried to hire Underwood's manager? That did seem a little shady, but it just seemed like there aren't enough details out in the open to know for sure. Although I suppose the 13M judgement against Huy Fong supports the case.
No, it's very demoralizing to find that what you are doing for a living (that isn't what you expected to be doing) is so disgusting to other people that there are commercial tools devoted to blocking you.
They can for some people on some days or parts of days (my anxiety peaks when stimulants are wearing off). But like the other poster said, its more that they do nothing to solve it. I found a beta blocker in addition to stimulants was good at unlocking my productivity. YMMV.
Additionally, the boost in dopamines rewards anything you happen to be doing, so it can lock you into your avoidant behavior that day once you start doing it.
No, not that (though I'm sure they can cause anxiety under certain circumstances, consult your physician etc.) It's just that IME they do basically nothing one way or the other about anxious procrastination, so if that's the thing that's killing you ...
I go unmedicated now because it's a pain in the ass to get the prescription refilled (not the best, but whatever). But my experience was that the anxious procrastination mostly still happened when on the crank (I was a lot less absent-minded though which was something).
Medication alone won't do it. Talk therapy, so that you have someone to talk about your anxieties with, and get at the underlying emotional issues driving that, are requisite. Stimulant medication alone won't stop you from reading Reddit for 6 hours instead of doing what you're avoiding doing. You'll just get a really intense Reddit session out of it. Don't draw the wrong conclusion here, which would be to not take it if you are so affected because it won't work. They do, but that it's something to be aware of. There's no quick fix, it's gonna take work.
I'm afraid I have to say that in my experience talking therapy is even less effective than drugs, which at least do something. But again, I'm not discouraging anyone from pursuing these pathways: do it if you can, and as soon as possible, partly because the problem's unlikely to get better over time. But don't get your hopes up, if you're primarily an anxious procrastinator.
(I should add that IME "body doubling"/"task shadowing" is somewhat effective, though not very consistently. It's also probably the hardest intervention to get, though maybe things like Focusmate https://www.focusmate.com/ might help with that nowadays.)
One of the things that I have found is very important for me: when you take your medication, make sure you’re doing something you want to be doing for a while. Like you say… if the medication starts working while I’m browsing Reddit, I’m probably going to keep doing that for a while.
Since Concerta is extended-release, this usually means that I have to start work early most days. If I take the medication too late in the day it’ll disturb my ability to get to sleep, and since the medication has mostly worn off by that time it’ll generally mean… browsing Reddit in bed until way later than I should be up.
FWIW ritalin reduced my anxiety a fair bit. It changed my brain from one with multiple concurrent streams of thought, often negative and never truly going away, to focusing on the task at hand.
As a direct outcome it means I don't have bad thoughts and feelings sitting in the back of my mind when trying to do something else 24/7 so I'm generally more balanced. Indirectly, it was helped by actually getting stuff done and feeling less shit in general and not putting myself down as much for failing.
