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It sells values as averages that definitely are not.

> Yes, but these are averages so it shouldn't matter. Assuming this is total spent in all households over a year, divided by population, it accounts for all fluctuations in time and region

Except that that's definitely not what's shown here.

> I'm actually curious just what you imagine this could even be "propaganda" for

I did end the post with just that.

Not accurate for Sweden either. Pricing in Stockholm region last weeks was 1/2 to 1/3 of what's in the list.

Transport issues extend to goods too.

This is overly simplified. A few aspects come to mind that have huge effects, in orders of magnitude:

* Price differences during day/week/seasons. Cold day? Electricity can be 2-3x higher than the day before. Lots of sun/wind? Price plummets. ...

* Price differences in regions. Norway, Sweden, Germany, those alone have huge differences in electricity prices depending on where you live.

* Pricing relative to economic output, i.e. GDP. Or household income.

There are surely more. This really strikes me as a propaganda page as the data is too oversimplified to be usefulfor real discussions, but enough to point to it to further an agenda. ("See, we shouldn't have turned off those nuclear plants, see how expensive electricityhas become!")

"Ruminating" is not all bad. The mind works on things and often the best solution to personal or professional problems come to me after I've let my mind work on it. Letting it run freely. Forcefully sulpressing it always seems counterproductive to me.

> Honestly, everybody should be practicing mindfulness meditation and cognitive-based therapy.

Im my mind, therapy is a remedy to a problem after its diagnosis. If you don't have a problem, you don't do/need therapy. If you do have a problem, start by getting it properly diagnosed by a professional in the area (mental health, physiology, ... any area in which people run to a therapist first thing). Anything else is upside down and potentially a huge waste of time and/or money or worse, possibly without even realizing it.

How would you know a priori that doing it is better than what you could otherwise do with your life? Spending time to build meaningful relations with people around you could be a better use of time. With your spouse or kids, for example.

I'm not saying meditation is bad per se. But claiming straiht away that it can't do harm before you try it is just too strong of a statement. It's easy to dismiss the effect of opportunity cost.

> It's hard to do harm with meditation

It's hard to do harm with taking a one hour walk every day.

It's hard to do harm doing yoga for an hour a day.

It's hard to do harm with cooking a really healthy meal every day.

It's hard to do harm watching a self-improvement video on youtube every day.

It's hard to do harm writing down self-reflective thoughts for half an hour before going to bed every night.

...

No, if you compare it with sitting on the sofa staring into the wall, then no, it's likely not going to harm. But that's the wrong comparison. You need to compare with what you instead do not do with your limited time. And then doing all those things can do a lot of (relative) harm.

It's easy to do harm with claiming a certain thing is hard to do harm with.

All soon to be obsoleted by ChatGPT. /s

(I agree with your point and share your appreciation.)

And he presents all this stuff with humility. Many people that present are just showing off and are pretty much full of themselves. I suppose they need the ego boost, who knows. But Andrej could be the nice guy next door in the dorm who is studying the same course as you, just that hr is a lecture or two ahead. (Until you figure out he is the former VP of AI at Tesla or whatever his title ended up being before he left.)

I can even recommend his interview with Lex Fridman.

Work != presence. In a role in which you don't have to sit in front of a computer, 3h presence could mean 8+ hours of work.

I typically start working when I step into the shower in the morning. (I have a typical coder job.) Thinking about what to work on today, remembering the problem I left off yesterday (having parked downhill), etc. It's a great distraction-free environment. Some of the best ideas come there. No slack, no email. No CI pipeline that screams at me. Sometimes I keep thinking after the shower before turning on the laptop. Just sitting on the sofa. By the time I log in, I may have already worked for an hour. Or perhaps two, if I started thinking about work right after waking up. On office days, I typically think work during the commute. There mostly, but often even on my way home. I think that all counts as work hours.

Or it could be that you had a brilliant idea for the rest of the sentence, but the strict rule prevents you from writing it down, and next day you can't remember it and chase it all day and still be unsatisfied in the end. Either because of lost time or because you couldn't remember/recreate it, or even both.

I suppose it just goes both ways. Try not to finish sth so that you don't have the somewhat hard task to start with sth new next day. But at the same time don't stop in the middle of sth that's difficult to pick up from. A strict timing rule does only help if you are statistically more often at a point where it's easy to pick up again. I doubt that you are though, so I'd try a more concious approach than a clock.

I really like the parking downhill analogy.

That could backfire. Maybe they were in the middle of something hard that's difficult to pick up from. To use the metaphor, perhaps you would be forcing them to park uphill.

Right. Or you try to break it down into subproblems which may be easier to solve. And those are then candidates for the downhill parking on-ramp for next day.