I believe the same thing. In fact, I believe people with ADD have a natural advantage in pre-modern settings. We are built to run long distances, outsmart prey, and forage. A distraction isn’t a distraction on that environment, it’s awareness and quickly thinking through possibilities and avenues of success.

> I believe people with ADD have a natural advantage in pre-modern settings

Totally, yeah. I can't prove it of course, but I've noticed countless of times that I seem to be extremely more aware of my surroundings than my friends etc. I hear and see more compared to them, which has positive and negative sides.

If anything it is more of an attention surplus than an attention deficit.

This is a point that Dr. Richard Barkley, one of the major researchers in ADHD in the last few decades, has stated slightly differently. In a sort of jest, he mentions that [ADD] should be called “intention deficit disorder” as there is plenty of attention to be given to things, sufferers just lack a lot intentionality behind their actions. This ultimately manifests as an executive disfunction which prevents this slice of the population from subconsciously knowing how to prioritize or assess the importance/value/urgency of stimuli.

I was wondering how far down I’d have to go to find this. Same thing with myself — treat the adhd and all of a sudden the drug issue becomes a non issue.

I had a doctor (not mine) recently ask me how I stopped, and with a straight face told her by taking my adhd meds. It wasn’t a real choice before that…

I also am like this. I have a co-disabilities that makes it near impossible for me to pick up a second language, yet I’m fairly talented at programming and have been paid to write in at least 8 programming languages.

A lot of employers do as well. I can’t think of a cheaper continuing education type of service that a company can provide.

If they don’t, your manager could probably get it approved with little effort.

In my experience, if you ask the company recruiter what to expect, they will generally tell you and even tell you about the interviewers (if known).

The need to get vacancies filled.

I don’t think this is true. GA has at least 2 versions it doesnt support in the past decade.

I imagine the opposite is true, in that they hold so much power they can do as they please.

My understanding is they are veeery careful around rolling out changes and deprecations. The cleverness is that there's a huge asymmetry in how fast Firefox can globally deploy updated shims vs how fast Google can change GA API.

Following the Microsoft model. Give out software/hardware at low to no cost for educational purposes. Those applications become ingrained and it makes it that much easier to gain and keep market dominance in the future.

A safe storage locker. I travel frequently for work between a few different cities and it's a pain to constantly have to pack and re-pack, and buy and re-buy those things which I cannot pack.

I just want a locker where I can feel safe leaving my stuff in the cities that I travel to most frequently. This means I'm reasonably assured they wont get stolen as well as being afforded many of the same rights when you own or rent property.

The physical dropbox. That's what we're building at www.makespace.com.

What cities are you in?

I would love one, jason [at] theograys.com

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