Individually nothing works, but the combination crossed a tipping point for me with radical change.

Treating my sleep problems as delayed melatonin, by boosting melatonin with tiny supplements combined with a few other lifestyle changes (that I started well before the supplements), has led to me feeling sleepy and a calmer mind at night and simultaneously clear-headed and not groggy in the morning. And the clearer-headedness persists all day. That was never my pattern in the previous 30 years, no matter all the things I tried.

"a 2024 study by researchers at Clemson University has estimated that 4% of content relating to independence were linked to one Iranian-backed bot network of around 80 accounts."

Speaking as a Scot, I would expect there are those who support attempts to break up the UK who care zero about Scotland. Who's ultimately behind it is speculative.

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However there is growth in mass timber construction generally. People are competing to build taller and taller timber skyscrapers.

Strength per volume versus strength per weight is an interesting trade-off. They're arguing this could let towers get taller.

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If you are interested in embedded software, and by extension all the stuff that software goes into.

Milk floats were quiet and didn't need to haul heavy loads, which was convenient for early morning deliveries. Distribution point/dairy can be the charge point.

Golf karts/utility vehicles. Never stray far from their chargers. Being quiet makes them more comfortable.

Forklifts are majority electric, and that was before lithium. Cheaper to run than fuel equivalents. They're still majority Lead Acid. A lead acid battery is heavy (a positive for a forklift) and lasts a shift before charging cheaply at overnight rates or swapping out the battery if there's another shift needing to use it. Lack of combustion fumes for an indoor warehouse or factory is real nice.

On technology specifically, range is next to useless if you can't tell how much you've left. I understand that tracking energy in and out the battery to a high level is not easy for a BMS - sample at the wrong rate and the potential error in over/underestimating range is quite large.

But if you place an artificial burden on yourself to follow up on everything that might be interesting, then that's probably overwhelming and shows a lack of prioritisation. That might be due to a lack of a system to prioritise, or it might be a lack of goals. Asking why you do it might feel you work backwards towards the goal - is it an ambiguous sense of professional development, or is it simply an enjoyment of pursuing novelty that means you keep turning up things that you feel you should come back to, but because novelty is the goal you never do. These might miss the mark with you, but they explain for me a lot about why I do the same things.

For someone who is profoundly deaf from birth and who can't lipread, the way we speak and write is a massive struggle. Cochlear implants before a year old are much more common now, while the brain is still more malleable, so there's maybe less and less deaf people who are totally profoundly deaf and you may not realise what it's like for them if you never come across them.

Being on a device is the primary distraction I've been hunting for an offline solution.

Presently I'm using checklist memo boards (cheap plastic things with toggle switches) that are on the walls of different rooms of the house with reminders for that place. So it's in my field of view and I'm reminded in the approximate place I can do something about it. Pieces of paper on surfaces get covered up and forgotten about, but these hang on walls.

Exercise specifically isn't a strong point, but trying to get outside during daylight has been a good motivation for me. Also doing things semi-useful like mundane gardening with an interesting podcast can be really engaging for me as hands and head are both occupied. Useful fidgeting I suppose.

I'm interested in trying an underdesk treadmill, I think that might work for me well.

This seems to work best for me, although I've got a lot of room to grow and improve.