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tl;dr he had ADHD. So he can't ever finish a blog post, but twitter works for him. Which is fair enough.
by aflag 7y ago
tl;dr he had ADHD. So he can't ever finish a blog post, but twitter works for him. Which is fair enough.
- prepend 7y agoIt’s good he found something that works, but that is an illogical explanation. How does he have too much ADHD to save drafts one paragraph at a time, but not enough to stop him from tinkering with an awesome thrift store computer for hours?
- Jaruzel 7y agoADHD is a bit like autism, in that many sufferers can obsess over a single thing/topic/interest, but be unable to focus on anything else.
- NathanWilliams 7y agoAh, so I take it you don’t have ADHD then? Tinkering is something you can lose touch with time on. Writing brings with it self doubt, worry about how it will be read. I send very clear emails (or so my colleagues tell me), but each one takes forever to write.
- prepend 7y agoI do have ADHD, it’s odd that you would presume I don’t. This is why I thought the “too adhd to blog” is odd because there are blogging platforms easier than twitter. Even Wordpress has drafts where you can update one sentence at a time. All the futzing and sequencing to get this out of twitter requires lots of effort that seems, to me, similar or greater effort than other formats that wouldn’t make me abandon an otherwise interesting post.
- NathanWilliams 7y agoMy apologies, didn’t meant to assume you didn’t. I guess I should have stated how I can empathise with the author, as I can spend a lot of time perfecting something longer like a blog, but a twitter thread is incremental without the option to go back and edit.
- icelancer 7y ago>> illogical Yes, that's what ADHD does to you. Source: Have it. Not as severe as Foone, but I empathize.
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