On Attention, Focus and Autism in the Tech Workplace

This has been revised and clarified.

I now use a whole bunch of terms that I find are useful to communicate personal attention patterns to those who didn't think about them so far: attention sponge, liking focus patterns to vehicle types, attention pathogens etc.

Last year I wrote about focus and attention when programming and how slow tools and slow compile-run workaround time hurt us. "Software Development at 1 Hz (medium.com)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12577283

This is my followup with more general attention and focus issues for some parts of the workplace. https://medium.com/@MartinCracauer/on-attention-focus-and-au...

If you like it I would also appreciate a retweet. https://twitter.com/MartinCracauer/status/902199195674824704

I enjoyed this. I guess because I relate in general. I was surprised that there are not more comments here. I started reading last night right after you posted, and left it open until this morning. This could be the start of a great essay.