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Why ADHD makes jobs hard
Learning patterns associated with ADHD makes you "spiky" - you are really good at some things and really bad at everything else. And most jobs require a…
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Demand for distraction is highly inelastic, for me
A couple of months back I had written about the economics of distraction. Recent observations suggest I'd massively overestimated the elasticity of…
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Burst a vein, and die
Sometimes doing many things at a time can be exhausting. Like Vikram Seth puts it, you (metaphorically) "burst a vein and die", and find it hard to…
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What is ADHD?
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Flip Flops
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Misjudgment
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ADHD and working styles
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Is it ADHD after all?
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My Next Step
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Is Adderall being overprescribed?
Adderall, the primary drug used to treat ADHD in the US, made an appearance on Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast. A few pertinent observations based on that.
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Neurodiversity and Elite Institutions
Outperformance in highly competitive exams is positively correlated with neurodiversity
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Demand and supply of distraction
I'm wondering if cutting supplies of distraction actually makes you less distracted, or just leaves you craving for more.
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Base level of dopamine
The base level of dopamine is stochastic, for me at least. And so the effectiveness of ADHD medication on me can also be stochastic.
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Artificial Social Intelligence
Humans learn through intuition and feelings. However, the one thing I'm unable to develop intuition for is human feelings (including my own). So I'm…
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Is it ADHD after all?
I'm starting to have doubts that ADHD is the only long term mental health issue I have
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My Next Step
I feel anxious when I don’t know where to place my next step, literally and figuratively. And the compounding effect of this means a series of small…
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