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Perhaps it was muscle memory? I could see that happening to me if I had recently installed the browser and it won't auto-complete the searches based on past his

by as1mov 6y ago

Perhaps it was muscle memory? I could see that happening to me if I had recently installed the browser and it won't auto-complete the searches based on past history. Also the fact that my IQ drops by 50 points when someone is watching my screen and I look like an idiot.

wutbrodo 6y ago
> Also the fact that my IQ drops by 50 points when someone is watching my screen and I look like an idiot. I've heard this a lot, and have basically trained myself by rote not to hover over people's computers when we're looking at something together, but I still can't say I understand it. I don't know if it's an inarticulable phenomenon, but do you have some sense of what drives this and/or what it feels like?
- as1mov 6y ago
  I am not sure what causes it. Maybe it's the anxiety? I've dealt with it most of my life. Even basic things like going outside, talking to a clerk at a store, talking on a phone would make me a nervous wreck, where I could barely function. Perhaps it makes me really uncomfortable when what I am doing is the center of attention. Like the nervousness normal people feel while performing something on a stage in front of hundreds of people, but on a micro scale, even doing something in front of a single person elicits the same response from me.
- jasonv 6y ago
  Surely we're all seeing this on Zoom calls these days? People sharing their desktop/app/window, then breaking out of that sharing selection to bring something else up, while they're talking.. and searching, and things aren't working exactly as expected, so they go into rabbit-hole mode, etc... Everyone's got a million things going on in their brains, and an audience changes things, and "presenting to an audience" is different than sharing with an audience. I switch between my Mac and a Windows machine, between Safari and Chrome, between ctrl- and Command-, etc etc. Half the time things I'm connected to are broken (VPNs, endpoints, services...) so I find myself half-stabbing my way through little time windows during the day. And if I'm talking to someone, while trying to do something I've done 1000x before, I'm probably covering my bases by stabbing at the keyboard even more. I do presentations a lot too, it's a totally different mode.

by as1mov 6y ago

wutbrodo 6y ago

> Also the fact that my IQ drops by 50 points when someone is watching my screen and I look like an idiot. I've heard this a lot, and have basically trained myself by rote not to hover over people's computers when we're looking at something together, but I still can't say I understand it. I don't know if it's an inarticulable phenomenon, but do you have some sense of what drives this and/or what it feels like?

as1mov 6y ago
I am not sure what causes it. Maybe it's the anxiety? I've dealt with it most of my life. Even basic things like going outside, talking to a clerk at a store, talking on a phone would make me a nervous wreck, where I could barely function. Perhaps it makes me really uncomfortable when what I am doing is the center of attention. Like the nervousness normal people feel while performing something on a stage in front of hundreds of people, but on a micro scale, even doing something in front of a single person elicits the same response from me.
jasonv 6y ago
Surely we're all seeing this on Zoom calls these days? People sharing their desktop/app/window, then breaking out of that sharing selection to bring something else up, while they're talking.. and searching, and things aren't working exactly as expected, so they go into rabbit-hole mode, etc... Everyone's got a million things going on in their brains, and an audience changes things, and "presenting to an audience" is different than sharing with an audience. I switch between my Mac and a Windows machine, between Safari and Chrome, between ctrl- and Command-, etc etc. Half the time things I'm connected to are broken (VPNs, endpoints, services...) so I find myself half-stabbing my way through little time windows during the day. And if I'm talking to someone, while trying to do something I've done 1000x before, I'm probably covering my bases by stabbing at the keyboard even more. I do presentations a lot too, it's a totally different mode.