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My wife refers to this as "Male refrigerator blindness" It is also why I prefer the NASA mission control approach to monitor layout

by tejtm 8y ago

Bizarro 8y ago
I'm assuming you mean "honey, I can't find X", and she comes in a finds X sitting right in front of you". I attribute that to myself as, "I don't want to spend more than 15 seconds looking for this thing inside some random thing behind a door"....usually for me, some cabinet or shelf behind the bathroom door where the towels and a myriad of other stuff are. Also, we're guys and tend to play dumb;)
- jexah 8y ago
  Pretty sure parent meant that one wants something, opens the fridge, and then immediately forgets what one wanted. Not sure this is specific to males, though. In my experience it's been pretty evenly distributed between the sexes.
crooked-v 8y ago
> It is also why I prefer the NASA mission control approach to monitor layout Could you elaborate?
- deleted 8y ago
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- tedmiston 8y ago
  You don't have to context switch desktops because you have so many displays that everything you need is already visible.
  - nickjj 8y ago
    Funny enough I recently wrote about this topic in the context of sticking with 80 characters per line when writing code[0]. There's a section on "Context Switching Sucks". I've always fantasized about having all of the walls in my home office as being monitors. [0]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/80-characters-per-line-is-a-standard-worth-sticking-to-even-today https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/80-characters-per-line-is-a-s...
    - sowbug 8y ago
      The way I put it to colleagues is that my big monitor is mine, not yours. If you write wide code, then you're taking up space I'd use to tile.
- tejtm 8y ago
  The place information is does not need to be relearned as it does not move. We then leverage our spatial "lay of the land" skills to reassemble it in novel ways with less effort. A "just so" explanation I like is it is a hold over from being a timid subterranean species. When an individual entered or left the borrow the threat model changed dramatically. Individuals that dumped their short term buffer reacted to escaped quicker (Poor Fred was deciding if the snake back there was worse than hawks and it flew off with him). On Refrigerator blindness it generally goes like; open the fridge, bask in the possibilities, and after a while my wife who is doing several things at once on the other side of the room states "cream" which brings the pre-fridge reality back into sharp relief.

My wife refers to this as "Male refrigerator blindness" It is also why I prefer the NASA mission control approach to monitor layout

by tejtm 8y ago

My wife refers to this as "Male refrigerator blindness" It is also why I prefer the NASA mission control approach to monitor layout

Bizarro 8y ago

I'm assuming you mean "honey, I can't find X", and she comes in a finds X sitting right in front of you". I attribute that to myself as, "I don't want to spend more than 15 seconds looking for this thing inside some random thing behind a door"....usually for me, some cabinet or shelf behind the bathroom door where the towels and a myriad of other stuff are. Also, we're guys and tend to play dumb;)

jexah 8y ago
Pretty sure parent meant that one wants something, opens the fridge, and then immediately forgets what one wanted. Not sure this is specific to males, though. In my experience it's been pretty evenly distributed between the sexes.

crooked-v 8y ago

> It is also why I prefer the NASA mission control approach to monitor layout Could you elaborate?

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tedmiston 8y ago
You don't have to context switch desktops because you have so many displays that everything you need is already visible.
- nickjj 8y ago
  Funny enough I recently wrote about this topic in the context of sticking with 80 characters per line when writing code[0]. There's a section on "Context Switching Sucks". I've always fantasized about having all of the walls in my home office as being monitors. [0]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/80-characters-per-line-is-a-standard-worth-sticking-to-even-today https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/80-characters-per-line-is-a-s...
  - sowbug 8y ago
    The way I put it to colleagues is that my big monitor is mine, not yours. If you write wide code, then you're taking up space I'd use to tile.
tejtm 8y ago
The place information is does not need to be relearned as it does not move. We then leverage our spatial "lay of the land" skills to reassemble it in novel ways with less effort. A "just so" explanation I like is it is a hold over from being a timid subterranean species. When an individual entered or left the borrow the threat model changed dramatically. Individuals that dumped their short term buffer reacted to escaped quicker (Poor Fred was deciding if the snake back there was worse than hawks and it flew off with him). On Refrigerator blindness it generally goes like; open the fridge, bask in the possibilities, and after a while my wife who is doing several things at once on the other side of the room states "cream" which brings the pre-fridge reality back into sharp relief.