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As a person with ADHD, I feel personally attacked.
by dondraper36 8mo ago
As a person with ADHD, I feel personally attacked.
- llbbdd 8mo agoSame. I'm tempted to print this post out and hang it for inspiration. But I guess that would also not be doing the thing.
- code_biologist 8mo agoI have bad ADHD and printed the strangestloop.io blog post out and put it on the wall by my work desk in Oct 2023 according to the printout timestamp. I still haven't done the thing in some meaningful areas, and the print has honestly kind of been dispiriting. I'm going to take this post as the prompt to take it down.
- llbbdd 8mo agoI'm going to consider this with the same weight I would if my future grey-bearded self popped out of a portal to say it, thank you. I've had a sticky note on my monitor for a few years that just says "SHIP SHIP SHIP SHIP SHIP SHIP"; it might be time for that to go before it becomes much more depressing.
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- zahlman 8mo agoI guess you understand this and are making a joke, but that "attack" would appear to be intentional (and motivating). I find that I don't have major issues doing a thing once I get started on it. The main problem is choosing from among many things that I could reasonably consider "the thing", and then feeling confident enough in that choice to start.
- dylan604 8mo agoThis sounds not too dissimilar to the release the POC to prod mentality. There are times where you obviously need to do the thing to understand the thing to see the process of doing the thing. This allows for breaking the process down into better steps. Just writing code to do things you think is doing thing but prove not to do the thing when actually doing the thing is common.
- drivers99 8mo agoWhat about doing the thing intently for a week and then realizing later you haven't touched the project in 6 months?
- dijksterhuis 8mo agosometimes i find that being okay with not doing the thing is exactly the thing i need to do to be okay with getting around to doing the thing
- myst 8mo agoComing up with excuses is not doing the thing.
- leoc 8mo agoWho claimed it was?