What's that one bit of advice you'll tell anyone at the slightest hint that it's warranted. The thing you learned, the thing you believe so strongly you can't shaddup about it, the thing you have such deep experience in that you truly know your experience is meaningful and helpful most of the time.
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@NanoRaptor 🧵Strong #advice
5 Aug 2025: When you write something, start with the date you wrote it, and include the publication date for any quote. Date is supremely important for context of all that follows.
Keep a standard series of patent notebook style handwritten journals with dated notes and sketches.
It’s the quickest and most reliable way to fix it in your memory, log a digital note later, find it again, and link to a note by date in any paper journal volume.
@NanoRaptor When somebody shows you who they are, believe it. Act accordingly.
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Read the error message.
Read the labels on the buttons and menu labels on that UI. (sometimes the UI sucks, but it's worth a try)
Read the assembly instructions of that piece of furniture.
At least skim the instruction manual for that new appliance.
Read the sign posted on the wall.
Read the package insert of those new meds, at least to check for interactions, when not to take, how to take them, what to do if you take too much or if you forget a dose, and possible side-effects.
Read the error message.
Read the labels on the buttons and menu labels on that UI. (sometimes the UI sucks, but it's worth a try)
Read the assembly instructions of that piece of furniture.
At least skim the instruction manual for that new appliance.
Read the sign posted on the wall.
Read the package insert of those new meds, at least to check for interactions, when not to take, how to take them, what to do if you take too much or if you forget a dose, and possible side-effects.
@Anke @NanoRaptor Our local launderette had a sign in foot high red capital letters running all along the wall behind the machine saying "IF ALL ELSE FAILS READ THE INSTRUCTIONS".
@NanoRaptor Acceptance and forgiveness begin with yourself.
@NanoRaptor Humility is a superpower.
Not saying this in the rainbows-and-unicorns humanistic sense, but in a very practical one.
If you recognize that you don’t know everything and approach life as such, you:
1. Get along with people better.
2. Don’t become stuck in your ways.
3. Learn new and better ways to approach even things you’re good at.
4. Don’t feel nearly as bad when you realize you’ve been doing something wrong.
Being humble isn’t just nice, it’s _liberating_.
@NanoRaptor it's not normal. get diagnosed.
@hananc @NanoRaptor This. And also it's extension:
Get diagnosed. A diagnosis doesn't mean you *have* to do something about it. It just means you *can*.
@hananc This is mine. gotta long-form it i think, but yes.
@NanoRaptor Sort of self-diagnosed for ADHD at the age of 39 and then formally diagnosed and treated. Those were the first hard 39 years of my life. Now I am 63. Fuck those psychologists that didn't think of it as the source of my problems.
Even now, when I write about Emotional Dysregulation and ADHD, people are surprised and discover new things about themselves.
@hananc Do you have any pointers to English language material on this?
@NanoRaptor “show me”
It’s the single most important thing you can say when trying to diagnose any issue.
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“technology is made of people” 💁♀️
^ not in the Soylent Green way 🤪
@NanoRaptor Flip over the end of the adhesive tape when you cut/tear off a piece. It’s a gift from present you to future you - or anyone.
@NanoRaptor If you want to be a better filmmaker, shoot still photos. Anything you learn about framing a shot in a still photo applies to shooting video, but there's too much going on when shooting video to easily improve.
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1: teach your baby sign language! Their brain is ready to communicate way before they have control over their larynx, tongue, and lips.
2: wax your bicycle chain!
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