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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.

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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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