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I have a short attention span. I kept wasting all my time constantly refreshing pages in the hopes of the tiniest dopamine hit. This sucked. I couldn’t read anything longer than a page without getting distracted, I couldn’t practice skills for more than a moment, or write anything longer than a tweet.

1. Has this been less so in the past? Hard for me to imagine getting e.g. a masters in physics under those circumstances!?
2. If it has been better in the past, any ideas as to why/how it changed for the worse?
3. Any updates on the dopamine addiction and efficacy

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The Danish marmelade brand Den Gamle Fabrik has this thing they call the "swup-låg", which is super easy to open! I do expect that they're more expensive though (they consist of two parts)..

Here is a cute promotional video^^ https://youtube.com/watch?v=NbPMjWsPOsw

Loring W. Tu actually drew the same conclusion from Von Neumann feeling wanting (emphasis mine):

One of Raoul’s observations on life has played a crucial role in my mental equilibrium. When he was at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 1949–51, he once had a conversation with John von Neumann, a fellow Hungarian who was at the time a professor at the institute. Von Neumann told Raoul that he had known only one great mathematician, David Hilbert, and that having been a prodigy in his youth, he never felt that he had lived up to his promise. Ra

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