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Re:Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest leve... by mjanx123 on Friday January 23, 2026 @12:55AM (#46728909)
Its not random. The neurodivergent brain lacks the ability to perceive (some aspects of) the virtual social reality as something real and to focus on that. In a startup, where the problems at hand are objectively real, the ADHD hyperfocus can excel. In a typical corporation, where the situation is the opposite, it struggles.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9541695/

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Re:Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest leve... by zozbot234 on Friday January 23, 2026 @03:18AM (#46729899)
It's obviously true that making outcomes more immediately tangible helps make them more appealing to the ADHD brain (that's a very clear kind of "gamification") but I'm not sure how that disagrees with what I said.
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