There is quite a leap from entertainment viewing choices to device gadget selection. It seems like a straw man to beat down and argue. My question is why? Why attached identity behind gadget choice? It is all marketing by large corporations in the end.
The irony did not lost on me that an article about superfluous visual elements is overlayed by an unnecessary distraction. But maybe the point is to not be 100% utilitarian but to weave in a "warm" feeling of the season. It did give me that a fuzzy feeling for the first few second. Then I was bored; then annoyed. Which pretty much follow my feeling of using Tahoe: Cool -> Meh -> Uggg!
No matter how well meaning or great it is, a large UI/UX changes without explicit user control (users clicking some download or update button) will always be met with vocal users revolt. I have not met a large UI change where I go "this is so much better than what I'm used to for the past years" Why do sites do this? Is the goal to attract new users? Just know that this comes at the cost of existing users irritation.
I will take around 1 year to get used to all the changes--just in time for the next large one to take place again. This is why I am always in a state of discontent.
Off topic--this came closely after my Sonos systems UI changes. It's like the whole world is telling me I am no longer their market demographics.
I like the idea of analog, there's something about writing on paper.
Practically, digital is much better. Everytime I see something that might be useful I past a link. I paste links to discussions I need to follow up on. And then I also use a homemade plugin for Obsidian that lists my to-dos across all notes(1), so whenever I think about something I need to do I just include it directly into the text and it's listed there.
I think you could do something somewhat similar on paper (I tried a while back), but the overhead is simply too much for me.
How much retention do you require though? For me having a more organized week is probably useful, not sure about having to retrieves years worth of information ?
I've done analog for years and tried to do digital this year. I switched back to analog. With digital, I tended to just dump everything whereas with analog I reflected and edited for concision. The things I typed I forgot; writing things down I remembered. It's much the same as taking notes - the act of physically writing helps "set" the information.
I know a lot of people will say to do digital for ease of searching. I find that if I write it down, I'm much more likely to remember and not need to search in the first place. And digital I think it's easier to get lost in the ways to try and optimize the process with a file, format, editor, plugin, method, etc. With paper, I have some paper that I can write in whatever format I want at the time.
The digital camp tends to jump all over the place with a new solution to the same problem without ever getting it right or getting closer to the root of it. You will notice a whole lot of todo apps, organization articles and a new solution every couple years. None ever solve the fundamental problem - friction and focus.
The analog camp, solved this, each in their own unique way, but all using the same tools (pen and paper). Its much quiet here, as we all have moved on to real problems.
If analog works better for you, maybe a good stylus would be a usable middle ground? Don’t cheap out on it though. The inexpensive ones aren’t worth it.
If this is more a question than a statement, I would look at these key problems:
>Still, their awareness of their gap between their ambitions and their inability to act causes intense self-criticism.
Figure out why you are not allowed to act. How do others act without enough knowledge? They approach decisions differently.
>In March 2019, doctors told Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Corey Knebel that it was his call whether to end his baseball season early to repair a torn ligament in his elbow. Knebel said during a press conference, “It sucked that it was my decision. I hated that. I really wish the doctor would have just said, ‘Here is what we’re doing.’” He wanted some other omnipotent entity to choose for him.
*edit: A Freudian slip? 'Other omnipotent entity' should be 'other omniscience entity'. Omnipotence doesn't help with making the best decisions.
The analysis found that parenting by lying could place children at a greater risk of developing problems that the society frowns upon, such as aggression, rule-breaking and intrusive behaviours.
