{"id":5838,"date":"2023-09-30T13:06:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T18:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5838"},"modified":"2023-09-30T13:06:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T18:06:16","slug":"senior-moment-oxymorons-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5838","title":{"rendered":"SENIOR MOMENT\/OXYMORONS (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As time goes by, I find it interesting to compare functioning of the brain to a computer&#8212;sometimes similar, sometimes not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; Memory upgrades or additions become unavailable.<br>&#8212; The hard disc seems to rotate slower, which explains why it takes longer reviewing stored information, to find what you&#8217;re looking for.<br>&#8212; You just can&#8217;t have as many files open at one time, like in the past, or like other people.<br>&#8212; What used to work well in your life, you are told is out of date&#8211;and upgrades simply don&#8217;t fit.<br>&#8212; Pressure does not increase productivity&#8212;another crisis blows another circuit&#8212;can&#8217;t afford that.<br>&#8212; Older systems are no longer supported, and everything you do takes so much longer.<br>&#8212; The cost of inefficiency and failure of logical function, add up in real dollars, with no reprogramming to correct the damage.<br>&#8212; Thinking about another better system is not helpful&#8212;actually, that kills your own system, almost like it has personality and gets offended.  Yes, it does, because it&#8217;s you, a person and not a technical machine like a computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As time goes by, I find it interesting to compare functioning of the brain to a computer&#8212;sometimes similar, sometimes not. &#8212; Memory upgrades or additions become unavailable.&#8212; The hard disc seems to rotate slower, which explains why it takes longer reviewing stored information, to find what you&#8217;re looking for.&#8212; You just can&#8217;t have as many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,5,14,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-financial","category-fun","category-health","category-inspire_lifter","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5839,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838\/revisions\/5839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}