sfriedrich

Go Elon! Big vision. Big execution. They ARE delivering. Get's my motor revving.

55yo progammer here - ADHD on Dexedrine as a kid.

There are lots of ADHD type folks in programming. Even though you are more distractible, you can also learn to hyper-concentrate. As you age you have to take care of your concentration and explicitly protect it.

Things to checkout: 1. Coffee or other caffeine sources. ADHD brains are usually calmed by stimulants (up to a point).

2. Keto (http://reddit.com/r/keto). Brains run much better on ketones, often ADHD symptoms decrease. Also, many programmers are fat from poor eating habits.

3. Foam earplugs or a set of shooter's earphones - while music can block out distractions; it can also keep you from obviating problems instead reducing you to merely solving them. Silence is your friend. (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D...)

4. Study or work environment free from visual distraction.

5. Learn about flow. Your hyper-concentrating ADHD brain will achieve it. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology))

best of luck, steve

Shouldn't he have cut it in half and then half again by now. Hopefully we can keep cutting it in half!

Farewell freedom. You were so nice while you lasted.

Humanscale Freedom - Had it for 9 years. Totally thrilled with it.

http://humanscale.com/products/product_detail.cfm?group=Free...

I looked at the google facilities and met the google people. They are great people. Not the place for me tho; no privacy and too much groupthink.

I loved this one as a kid too. Thanks for posting.

Polite is not required in the use of a right. A right is a right, polite or impolite.

Hmm, am I the only one that had fleeting thoughts that Bumpits had been bought by google?

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In addition to the distractibility for which it is most known; ADHD folks are often capable of super-concentration for periods of time. This is why you often find them in occupations that benefit from this capability... programming being chief among them.

Self medication with mild stimulants like caffeine is also common.

I've had one of these since 2002. It's a little over your budget but it is worth every penny (Get the gel seat-pan).

I've survived shipping pushes that had 14-16 hr./day coding with this chair

http://www.mcergo.com/humanscale-freedom-chair-with-headrest...

http://www.humanscale.com/products/freedom_index.cfm

And the ghosts of beloved wives, children and colleagues DON'T come to visit and warn him. No one loves him and no one ever will. He loves only his money, with which he will be buried. He thinks Scrooge was just weak.

Is anyone else tired of pcworld acting as an astroturfing proxy for M$? I've noticed over and over in their sequences of (multiple) stories that they ALL start out slightly positive and then follow-on stories turn negative... as if they only wanted to appear thoughtful and neutral but actually purposefully lead to sour conclusions.

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