FYI addiction is never okay. Addiction is when habitual behaviour becomes a problem in your life. So being addicted to problem solving would be something like, if you can’t find a problem to solve you start inventing them, or your neglecting personal relationships because you spend all your time trying to solve problems.
Well technically personal relationship problems are still problems, so a problem-solving addict would strive to solve it. But yeah, calling it an addiction is bad - maybe calling it an urge to solve a problem when you see it instead of just discarding it is more positive and accurate.
Yes, 'addiction' seems indeed to be *by definition* harmful/maladaptive. But interestingly, there isn't a word for states involving compulsion, preoccupation and withdrawal issues that is not harmful. "To be stuck in a good place". 🤔
The DSM classifies something as an addiction only if it causes a problem; you're technically addicted to eating, drinking and breathing as withdrawal symptoms are similar to other habit-forming substances/activities, up to and including death due to going cold turkey. An addiction to problem solving is only one if it negatively impacts the rest of your life.
9:08 I'm possibly going to expose that my brain is wired backward; but shouldn't this line be horizontal? Additional experience leads to no increase in expertise? If so then it's the 1 computery thing i can do better than Dylan :)
Everything in this talk can be summarized by having empathy: empathy for your users, your colleagues, and your future self
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FYI addiction is never okay. Addiction is when habitual behaviour becomes a problem in your life. So being addicted to problem solving would be something like, if you can’t find a problem to solve you start inventing them, or your neglecting personal relationships because you spend all your time trying to solve problems.
Well technically personal relationship problems are still problems, so a problem-solving addict would strive to solve it.
But yeah, calling it an addiction is bad - maybe calling it an urge to solve a problem when you see it instead of just discarding it is more positive and accurate.
Yes, 'addiction' seems indeed to be *by definition* harmful/maladaptive.
But interestingly, there isn't a word for states involving compulsion, preoccupation and withdrawal issues that is not harmful. "To be stuck in a good place". 🤔
The DSM classifies something as an addiction only if it causes a problem; you're technically addicted to eating, drinking and breathing as withdrawal symptoms are similar to other habit-forming substances/activities, up to and including death due to going cold turkey.
An addiction to problem solving is only one if it negatively impacts the rest of your life.
9:08 I'm possibly going to expose that my brain is wired backward; but shouldn't this line be horizontal? Additional experience leads to no increase in expertise? If so then it's the 1 computery thing i can do better than Dylan :)
I was thinking the exact same thing
And then Kevlin Henney did a presentation on "You're logging too much"....