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Gorgeous! How do the worklouder pures compare to the stock keycaps?


I wasn't sure how I would like the keycaps when I ordered it. Hard to describe but they feel better than the stock keycaps (with the silent switches) and sound a little better when I strike the plastic keycaps. The stock keycaps have a slight hollow sound (if I recall correctly).


I tech fast for 25 hours a week. No computer, no cell phone, no television, etc. It's amazing how much this sustains my motivation and enthusiasm. You can "switch" right now, at least 1/7th of the time. Not exactly what you're asking for but immediately actionable.


Is that a straight period of a day or so or do you do 3.5 hrs/day? How does this work?


We call that Shabbat


what do you do when you tech fast? read books?


Everything that isn’t tech is a very, very large set. What I assume the OP is really saying here is a “screen fast”. Reading is nearly the same activity for our text-scrolling-addicted brains. I recommend _anything_ outside even if it’s just sitting and staring. Eventually you’ll fill that time as long as you have discipline for no-tech.


Not OP but theres tons of stuff. Go to the gym, fish, go to the shooting range, visit a museum, find a super long nature trail and go as far as you can, etc. Even in small nowhere-towns there are tons of things to do when you let your imagination run wild. Finding stuff to do without computers is a skill we have as kids, but lose once we gain our careers.


I've been thinking about doing this! Also have considered ditching my phone, or downgrading to a dumb one. Yesterday for world book day I sat and read a book for the evening and it was wonderful, but I kept putting the book down to check things I'd just read on wikipedia or see if I had any emails. It was an eye opener to how much I do that on a normal day


Was this comment made outside your fasting window?

Alternatively, I set a 20 min daily timer for chrome on my phone, seems to help a lot.


Is that like one day on a weekend? I actually thought that was normal (maybe the phone)


I send my parents $500 a month with Venmo. Really ought to send more.


What an emotional roller coaster!


Thanks for sharing these examples. I feel like stories like this, collectively, could constitute an interesting book.


The fact that Stigler's Law adheres to Stigler's Law is hilarious. Thanks for sharing!


I call it RDD: Rage Driven Development.


Exactly!


This is an awesome feature request. Thank you!


Not to mention, depending on the size of the company / org, all hands meetings can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars.


... especially if you fly them cross-country and put them up in hotels. (I've read some stories.)


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