In fact, I can make myself perceive the dark blue lines as straight by holding the phone on which I read this article about a foot and a half from my face. I don’t know if this is partly because my contact lenses aren’t on at the moment. As I gradually move the screen away, the lines appear to rotate into a horizontal arrangement.
In general, I am more sympathetic to the idea that a well-conceived and consistently executed, theory-based approach to productivity hacks will yield fruit that an atheoretical haphazard approach can’t achieve, and for this reason. Between the lack of incentives to help others be more productive, limited bandwidth to explore for ourselves, scientific inadequacies in aligning evidence with reason, and the constant improvements in technology, culture, and scientific understanding, there’s a lot of new resources to draw upon.
In fact, I can make myself perceive the dark blue lines as straight by holding the phone on which I read this article about a foot and a half from my face. I don’t know if this is partly because my contact lenses aren’t on at the moment. As I gradually move the screen away, the lines appear to rotate into a horizontal arrangement.
In general, I am more sympathetic to the idea that a well-conceived and consistently executed, theory-based approach to productivity hacks will yield fruit that an atheoretical haphazard approach can’t achieve, and for this reason. Between the lack of incentives to help others be more productive, limited bandwidth to explore for ourselves, scientific inadequacies in aligning evidence with reason, and the constant improvements in technology, culture, and scientific understanding, there’s a lot of new resources to draw upon.