Archive - ADHD and Company

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…

May 31 •

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…

May 15 •

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…

May 9 •

April 2024

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.

Apr 19 •

March 2024

Neurodiversity and Elite Institutions

Outperformance in highly competitive exams is positively correlated with neurodiversity

Mar 18 •

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.

Mar 4 •

December 2023

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.

Dec 7, 2023 •

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…

Dec 1, 2023 •

November 2023

Is it ADHD after all?

I'm starting to have doubts that ADHD is the only long term mental health issue I have

Nov 6, 2023 •

August 2023

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…

Aug 23, 2023 •

June 2023

Careers, and software engineering

There is a lot of articles recently on what careers are best for people with ADHD. I have a one line suggestion - do something you're capable of…

Jun 9, 2023 •

Decisions and Workflows

When you have ADHD, every single decision takes a lot of mental effort, so you need to develop workflows so that you minimise the decision-making

Jun 6, 2023 •

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