> There's some interesting stuff I read a while back about why the 80s "feels culturally closer to today" than the 40s felt to people in the 80s

Would you still have these articles by chance? This sounds interesting and is something I "felt" myself.

Not the poster you asked either, but another big reason why the 1980s seems more like today than the 1940s did the 1980s was that the 1960s happened in between the 1940s and 1980s. Our modern world view is greatly shaped by the struggles for racial and gender equality that occurred in the 1960s.

Not the poster you've asked, but I think you might be interested in Mark Fisher's "What is Hauntology?" (10.1525/fq.2012.66.1.16). It argues the contemporary culture is incapable of coming up with genuinely new ideas because postmodernism and late capitalism constraint our imagination to the point where we can no longer imagine a wholly different system of politics and values. We're left with the upkeep of an already established system, and this is reflected in how the present crop of films and music mostly sample and rehash what's been done in the past century.

As a personal addendum, I feel this can be (partly) attributed to the loss of the Cold War's ideological struggle that drove the West to innovate, not just in technology but in societal structures and freedoms as well. This is why it can feel as if we've arrived at "the end of history", the current system has won, so what is left to seek or prove?

Fascinating, thanks for that!

Re your addendum and "the end of history": I think it would be myopic for people to think that the current system has won, and that there's nothing left to seek or prove. The current system has brought plenty to many but is destroying our planet, and there's plenty of space for fresh thinking. China is taking the lead in innovation [1]; so perhaps there's a new ideological and existential struggle, just with the US as the underdogs. Hopefully people see this as motivating rather than depressing.

[1]: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/06/12/... (also https://archive.ph/urpbY )

Hauntology, Lost Futures and Lost 80s Nostalgia

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gSvUqhZcbVg

> The surprising aspect is that they don't use proxies for editing rather than remote desktop.

Who says they're not using proxies and remote desktop?

To be excellent, you are by definition "not normal".

Maybe those people who "can handle notifications" are just less much less productive as a baseline to start with? Hence they don't feel the impact as much.

I often find this with people who think they are good at "multitasking".

I certainly handle distractions better with my ADHD medication, personally.

And do you also feel that your productivity is higher in general (without distractions) when taking medication?

Well, one question probably causes around 10-15 minutes of harm (not counting the time to actually answer the question).

So yeah - have 4 of these a day and you've wasted an hour. Have this every working day and you've already wasted half a day per week.

I'm very much like this. I often compare social gatherings to activities like hiking. I might go for a hike from time to time and I might even enjoy it, but it will be exhausting and I will need some time after the hike to recharge.

It's one of those "healthy chores". Unpleasant to think about, usually not as bad when you're actually doing it. Also like hiking (or lifting) there is an element of risk.

But those were not mobile services, more like Apple's implementation of ICQ or MSN Messenger.

There also was an iChat server for Mac OS X Server IIRC.

> Japan does have a very high iOS market share however because they appreciate craftsmanship

Yeah that's probably not the case.

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Article mainly seems to talk about vi, not vim. But I guess the author doesn't know where vim is coming from.

Expecting with bad assumption means you want a war.