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What is ADHD?
Welcome to my new newsletter "ADHD and company". In this inaugural edition, I pay the obligatory obeisance to Ganesha and set the context for the rest…
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Flip Flops
Being easily distractible means you frequently forget your own plans and make hilarious (and sometimes dangerous) flipflops. And your decision-making…
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Misjudgment
This is possibly a quick episode, written under special circumstances.
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ADHD and working styles
This is a wholly personal account on what it's like to work when you have ADHD
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Law of conservation of focus
Or why I stopped taking Methylphenidate
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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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On the NY Times article on ADHD
In April 2025, the New York times produced a long article titled "have we been thinking about ADHD all wrong?". A few pertinent observations about that
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Neurodiversity and Elite Institutions
Outperformance in highly competitive exams is positively correlated with neurodiversity
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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
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Involuntary Frenzy
An addendum to the weekend's post on the different modes in which I work. I had forgotten to write about a rather common work mode - the "involuntary…
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"Karthik Uncle": 4 days with children
I spent four days last week with nearly a dozen children, only one of whom was my own. Some random observations from the experience
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