Ask HN: Well-being and men mental health by motbus3

I have been duelling with some ideas in the back of my mind for quite sometime. I would like to share with you and see how I can build something to help others.Recently I was stroke with a high possibility of a health problem in my family which would lead to long time consequences. At

ByHackTechAugust 10, 20230Comments

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Mental Disorders and Accessibility by Rumperuu

Summary A look at how mental disorders, and those who have them, are underserved in tech. accessibility discussions. Mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders are syndromes characterised by clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotional regulation, or behaviour that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes that underlie mental and behavioural functioning.

ByHackTechJuly 22, 20231Comment

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Parenting and the Big Mental Energy Dip: parents, it will get better by jtwaleson

During my late teens and early twenties I had an incredible amount of energy. And I would mostly put that to good use. When I was a parent it collapsed incredibly hard, but the good news is, it does come back! This slightly self-absorbed post (sorry about that) is written to celebrate that but also

ByHackTechJune 25, 20230Comments

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Mental Models by dudzik

Mental Models

ByHackTechApril 20, 20230Comments

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Mental Secure Hash Function by blopeur

A few years ago I wrote about Manual Blum’s proposed method for mentally computing a secure hash function. He proposed using this method as a password manager, using the hash of a web site’s name as the password for the site. I first wrote about Blum’s method on the Heidelberg Laureate Forum blog, then wrote…

ByHackTechMay 17, 20220Comments

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Mental illness doesn’t make you special by paulpauper

Marianne Eloise wants the world to know that she does not “have a regular brain at all”. That’s her declaration, on the very first page of her new memoir, Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking. The book catalogues her experience of a dizzying variety of psychiatric conditions: OCD, anxiety, autism, ADHD, alcohol abuse, seasonal affective disorder, an…

ByHackTechMay 1, 20220Comments

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Mental speed high until age 60 as revealed by analysis of over 1M participants by BayAreaEscapee

ReferencesNational Prevalence Survey of Age Discrimination in the Workplace (Australian Human Rights Commission, 2015).Erber, J. T. & Long, B. A. Perceptions of forgetful and slow employees: does age matter? J. Gerontol. B 61, 333–339 (2006). Google Scholar Salthouse, T. A. Selective review of cognitive aging. J. Int. Neuropsychol. Soc. 16, 754–760 (2010).PubMed PubMed Central Google…

ByHackTechFebruary 19, 20220Comments

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Mental Models for Problem-Solving to Avoid Catastrophic Mess by durmonski

Problem-solving rarely comes to mind until we’ve implemented a fix. That’s why we often say: “Oh, I had to do this, instead. Not go with the usual fix.” We think more about alternative solutions after we’ve encountered a problem, not before that. Why this is the common way we act? And can we do something…

ByHackTechJanuary 11, 20220Comments

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