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The thought of someone I love (in the broadest sense of the word) being affected by this is horrific. I'm really sorry for his family and friends :( I think th

The thought of someone I love (in the broadest sense of the word) being affected by this is horrific. I'm really sorry for his family and friends :( I think that you're kind of right: I know one engineer who is like that and he it's his autism which makes him brilliant. He could operate in deep-thought mode all the time - he is extremely intelligent and extremely focused. There are other people who can hit it for patches - I could do it for 3-4 weeks at a time when I was 21. At 39 I struggle to do it for an hour a month (kids change you more than anything else). We really know so little about how our minds and bodies work and that's something we need to change. We should be able to identify and fix conditions like this. Makes me think that some of us here are wasting our abilities on start-ups and systems when we could be working on fixing much more complex systems.

kick 7y ago
Makes me think that some of us here are wasting our abilities on start-ups and systems when we could be working on fixing much more complex systems. This can go in the wrong direction. Nobody wants to be McNamara, though being Zuckerberg isn't that bad.
HeyLaughingBoy 7y ago
Life is short and slips away quickly. Use your abilities to further the things that mean the most to you, not on a possibly misguided sense of what you "should" be doing.
- asveikau 7y ago
  And also: have pity on the person who outwardly seems to be an asshole or checked out. You don't know what they're going through.
  - miles 7y ago
    Reminded me of this quote often misattributed to Plato[0]: "Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." and Patrick Farley's version from his series "The Spiders"[1]: "Show kindness to every person you meet. No matter how ill-tempered a man may seem, you have no idea what private agony he may secretly be struggling with." [0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/ [1] http://www.electricsheepcomix.com/spiders/3.5/01_hospital.html http://www.electricsheepcomix.com/spiders/3.5/01_hospital.ht...

kick 7y ago

Makes me think that some of us here are wasting our abilities on start-ups and systems when we could be working on fixing much more complex systems. This can go in the wrong direction. Nobody wants to be McNamara, though being Zuckerberg isn't that bad.

HeyLaughingBoy 7y ago

Life is short and slips away quickly. Use your abilities to further the things that mean the most to you, not on a possibly misguided sense of what you "should" be doing.

asveikau 7y ago
And also: have pity on the person who outwardly seems to be an asshole or checked out. You don't know what they're going through.
- miles 7y ago
  Reminded me of this quote often misattributed to Plato[0]: "Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." and Patrick Farley's version from his series "The Spiders"[1]: "Show kindness to every person you meet. No matter how ill-tempered a man may seem, you have no idea what private agony he may secretly be struggling with." [0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/ [1] http://www.electricsheepcomix.com/spiders/3.5/01_hospital.html http://www.electricsheepcomix.com/spiders/3.5/01_hospital.ht...