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I feel this. As someone who has ADHD I really need to come up with some kind of enterprise where I can just build something and sell it, without the meetings and time estimates and deadlines which are always tripping me up. Something where I can work at my own pace and my own schedule. Otherwise the sword of Damocles is always over my head- forget one meeting, give a bad estimate- and I have no income. Maybe software, maybe I'll just make furniture.

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I found an environment with lots of paired programming, or mentoring was best for my ADHD.

Having someone next to you was wonderful for keeping me on task, and I really shined. Other situations where I was constantly helping people get unstuck also made me the office hero.

Otherwise I struggle like crazy.

huge +1 here! pairing and debugging put focus on easy mode

I’ve also personally found focus more easily in framings along the lines of “survey the thoughts and options around X, then drive discussion toward picking a direction” or “here’s a numeric measure of how fast the thing currently is, iterate on making that number smaller”

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