In my previous company, I was an organic analyst dedicated to a single instrument. The instrument was tucked in on the side with very little traffic around it and the screens were only visible from where I was sitting. It was amazing as i’d do my analysis with youtube playing on the side, i’d just put on some standup comedy clips or something like that and the day would just fly.
Thankfully never got caught by management. The state manager was a prick of a human being. We had an external contractor that was doing method development on an instrument. For method dev, there’s about 2 minutes worth of work, before you have around 10-30 minutes of dead time where you’re waiting for a sample to finish analysing. Literally nothing you could do during that time. She had her phone out and was just watching videos etc. State manager came up and threatened to kick her out for doing nothing. It took the head of Asia and Pacific of her company to explain to him that’s just how it is…
I have, it was good but didn’t make the Tier 1 cut. I thought the politics were better portrayed in Last Kingdom but the action, characters and stories were better in at least the early seasons of Vikings.
Fair call. I slightly preferred Last Kingdom, definitely better politics and the love stories weren’t over bearing. What about Vikings Valhalla? I found it worse than the first seasons of Vikings, but definitely better than the later seasons. Vikings seemed to go a bit more downhill after Ragnar’s death.
Interestingly enough, from a historical perspective, they’re now potentially saying the whole “Viking shield wall” is actually a myth and never happened.
I’m no psychology expert, but from what I know about people with ADHD, it’s been described as multitasking on steroids: that is, having many concurrent stimuli and being able to (whether they like it or not) quickly context switch between them (such that the effect appears to be an inability to focus one one thing for any length of time).
Whether that is accurate or not, it’s a useful description because I would put myself at the opposite end of that spectrum. If I have more than one thing to do/remember/focus on, I quickly feel overwhelmed. I’m a massive note taker/list maker, because I can’t have too many things swirling around in my head at one time.
Give me one thing to focus on and I’ll go as deep as the rabbit hole takes me. Add a second thing, and I’m pretty much fucked.
100%, he was such an excellent character, but the storyline with Ivar the Boneless is fantastic. His other kids are just less interesting copies of the man himself.
It would be nice if at the start of a new season of a show, there was like a 15-30 minute recap to remind you of who people are and where we got to. The 1-2 minute bits that sometimes get used are insufficient, and obviously I don’t want to watch the whole thing again because I only have one life.
We started on Squid Game S2 the other night and the amount of key S1 plot points and characters I had forgotten, combined with the cultural issues of needing to focus on subtitles and the names and faces being harder for me to remember (yes that’s on me I realise, but it’s a question of exposure for these things to get easier) meant I spent the entire episode in a fog of confusion in what isn’t the most complicated show out there.
