Duane Forrester
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918 appearances
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard Sep 2025
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That discomfort over time wears you down.
You know, I take this back to, I would say maybe a decade ago, I turned all the ringers.
and put people on my on my private list where like if my mom calls me twice in a row, it'll break through my privacy settings and ring my phone, you know?
Um, there are exactly two people on that list.
Everybody else, you can just send me a text or wait, I'll see the message and there we go.
The reason I did that was because I was starting to feel a bit of PTSD reacting every single time my phone went off because I had the ringer turned on for Slack at work.
And it was I was plugged into so many different things.
It was every 20 or 30 seconds something was lighting up.
You know, my company was sending 15,000 Slack messages a day.
So like I had to turn the ringer off, or I was having a physiological response every time my phone vibrated, or every time the ringer went off.
And I was like, I gotta do something to calm that down because like that's not good.
And and humans generally end up feeling the same way when it's new information, when it's overload for even old information.
You know, we work at a certain level.
Some of us are eight-bit computers, some of us are maybe a little more advanced than that, a TRS-80, Commodore 64 maybe, um, you know, and then there's some like Mac2s floating around out there and uh whatnot.
But we have a limit.
And and I think that when we hear people saying they're exhausted, they can't keep up, this is difficult, the the pace of change is too much, I think that's all we're really seeing and hearing.
I'm not negating any of that.
They're right.
It is it's all true, but you know, it is down to an individual thing.
I have
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