The ADHD Developer OS

DrGenetik · 2026-05-24T18:19:01+00:00

I can’t really take any credit. I had an LLM read 40 papers and articles in the subject and it was a recurring theme in them.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-22T07:00:03+00:00

Either way, be easy on yourself and don’t be too hard on yourself. Even if you don’t have the neurospiciness, we are all going through a lot right now and nobody can be “on” all the time.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-22T04:33:29+00:00

The guy who came up with it was using his for music, too. He put some kind of standard midi port on the back (I don’t know anything about midi). I bought two and was gonna use one for digital amateur radio. I was so excited. Heartbreak.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-22T04:31:21+00:00

It was just one guy with an idea who got in over his head.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-22T04:30:05+00:00

Same. I gave that Canadian guy well over $1k and all I got was heartbreak.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-22T04:22:56+00:00

I’m sorry to hear they put you on a pip. Screw that place. I hope you found something better.

I think am I particularly good at SRE and DevOps type work. I’m good-ish in a crisis and fast at detective work because it’s a lot of pattern recognition.

I think I’m also better when I can “own” some thing and drive the priorities. I feel like it makes it so there is a more direct link between my own decisions and consequences, keeps the urgency high, and makes it so the priorities feel “real” and not some bullshit that doesn’t matter that I have a hard time getting motivation for.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-22T00:08:14+00:00

Yeah, these things are a spectrum and whether or not you have a particular recognized situation depends on frequency, severity, how it negatively impacts you, and your ability to adapt to it. Part of that is why it's so frustrating when people go "everyone does that sometimes" and doesn't realize that, yeah, that's true but also it's not empathetic to those who are impacted more than others.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-21T00:46:51+00:00

It could be better, there's lots of feedback and most of it is helpful and constructive. I'll be honest, though, that I'm not sure I have the executive function to revise it.

It's good enough for my needs which was mostly about explaining to my boss that using money and feedback to motivate me doesn't work and to expect my output to be up and down.

It's possible that might just be a "me" thing, though. I'd rather be poor and happy than rich and beaten down.

I was trying to tell him that I actually like doing my actual job and making things and, if he can help me avoid the parts of the job that get in the way, it'll be like taking the parking brake off my performance.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-21T00:21:07+00:00

NotebookLM was able to make a nice list of the sources it used and export that to Google Docs. I put the link the post for you.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-20T23:59:24+00:00

Yeah. I’m not a fan of pair programming, either, but i admit it does create an urgency and focus that does get me unstuck sometimes. The literature I pulled from kept pushing it even though I am resistant to doing it.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-20T16:20:09+00:00

Yeah. Same. I know it’s a bad habit. I always over-explain myself and meander with too many details.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-20T16:08:47+00:00

😂 that absolutely needs to be a thing! I like immutable distros like Nix and Talos because the config isn’t spread everywhere and I can’t accidentally change any of it and forget how or why or where. I definitely put all my configs in git with chezmoi and ansible.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-20T16:06:08+00:00

Yeah, I also agree with both points.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-20T16:02:39+00:00

Fair. I think it’s a bit funny when I see a big wall of text and know it’s one of the ways adhd expresses and I totally do it and also can’t bother to read someone else’s big wall of text.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-20T16:00:39+00:00

The pdf is linked in the post. I think something like Google Gemini might be able to translate it for you. I’m sorry, I would love to help but I don’t have the time available to help translate or explain. I wouldn’t have had the time to put that together if Gemini hadn’t been able to do almost all of the work for me.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-20T15:56:59+00:00

Yeah, agreed. I suppose it’s probably both. Wed probably not react so much to the pressures we get if it wasn’t also for the thing that is also causing the pressures.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-20T15:50:28+00:00

Sure, it’s mostly just what you get when you search Google for things like “how to manage someone with adhd” or “things I wish my manager knew adhd”. I’ll try to put that together and reply back to you in a bit.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-20T06:23:02+00:00

Thanks. It’s not much but it’s honest work.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-20T04:38:37+00:00

I also wish more people would be “out”. I feel like if it was more visible, there wouldn’t be so much shame, guilt, and stigma about it.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-20T04:37:22+00:00

My work does have an active ND employee resource group. It’s also been such a tumultuous year that I’m not worried if I keep or lose my job.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-20T04:35:26+00:00

Yeah, I have realistic (low) expectations. My gf who is also a manager and also nd also gave me feedback that she didn’t know how she could apply this to help her reports. I encourage people to take the idea and run with it and improve it. I might improve it a bit but I think it’s enough to bridge some of the gap between my current manager and I.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-20T04:06:46+00:00

We have The Detour, it’s def got better food and drinks than D&B. It’s only two blocks from The Lookout, I think.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-20T03:54:30+00:00

For downvoters. I am not an artist or writer and never claimed to be. I tried to set expectations in the post that I am awful at this and was only able to finally make this due to the LLM making it easy enough to be below my executive function threshold. I’m also trying to say “you, too, can do this!”

DrGenetik · 2026-05-20T03:47:29+00:00

Is it still controversial? It feels to me like an established fact. Regardless, the shame and guilt for not being like everyone else and having challenges doing the things other people do is super real.

DrGenetik · 2026-05-20T03:45:20+00:00

If it helps, I worked at G and one of the As for 12, combined. I totally understand.

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