NIH Researchers Identify Brain Connections Associated with ADHD in Youth

Re:NIH Researchers Identify Brain Connections Associated wit... by techcode on Thursday March 14, 2024 @04:06PM (#39708376)

There's a lot of high-paying tech jobs that can be playing into ADHD (and other not neuro typical brains) strengths and focus thats more like running 42 1km "sprints" than mostly consistent pace 42km marathon.

Things that come to mind are data science/analysis, debugging and fixing outages (finalizing follow up RFO might be hardest part ), security/hacking (hopefully white hat)...

And basically whatever else one personally finds interesting to dig into deep and/or wide.

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Re:NIH Researchers Identify Brain Connections Associated wit... by andenacitelli on Friday March 15, 2024 @11:02PM (#39722976)

I’m a SWE at a Series A startup with predominantly inattentive ADHD. The need for me to jump around a bunch of things rather than just tunnel on the same area is a godsend. I struggle to really go deep or commit to long-running efforts, but if I can just jump into each thing for a few hours and constantly rotate things, I get an insane amount of work done.

Most jobs would not afford me this, but I lucked into a great role that plays into it rather than fights it.

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Re:NIH Researchers Identify Brain Connections Associated wit... by techcode on Sunday March 17, 2024 @06:55PM (#39738808)

Isn't that called proactive procrastination?

Where you intentionally have more than 1 thing/project going on, so you can procrastinate on nr1 while you work on nr2 ...etc.

And for going in deep and long - it really needs to be something personally interesting.

Or someone else has a better was to get into hyperfocus flow/zone?

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