Alexis Rondeau

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Bookmarked from Noah Ryan @NoahRyanCo

ADHD isn't a disorder, its a neurological type.

The same wiring that makes you distractible and hyperactive in todays world made you an elite hunter-gather

  • Hypervigilant: Constantly scanning the environment for threats
  • Impulsive: Quick decision-making for hunting & survival
  • Hyperactivity: Necessary for long hunts and physical demands of nomadic life.
  • Hyperfocus: Ability to concentrate intensely on immediate, interesting tasks (like hunting)

These "ADHD" genes were positively selected for until farming & peasantry became the societal norm.

"ADHD" went from being an elite advantage to a maladaptive trait. Hunter's mind, farmers world.

Modern life is a nightmare for somebody hardwired to hunt & gather:

  • Sitting in a classroom for 14 years straight
  • Sitting behind a computer doing repetitive tasks
  • Constantly bombarded with artificial stimuli
  • Overwhelmed by Information overload

The monkey that thrives in the circus has the opposite traits of the monkey that thrives in the wild. Its like putting a shark in an aquarium and wondering why it doesn't survive.

If you label yourself as disordered you’ll never ascend that label. Understand how your brain works and create a life that compliments those unique traits.

Some of the most successful & extravagant people in the world have ADHD and thats not by accident

The solution isn't amphetamines. Its reinventing your life to play games you're uniquely suited to play

Bookmarked from BURKOV @burkov

Because coding will be largely automated, teams working on a piece of software will be tiny. This means no Agile, no Scrum, no Confluence, no t-shirt sizes, no poker planning, and no endless streams of idiotic tickets that take longer to open than to fix. All this nonsense will be gone.

Bookmarked from Ethan Mollick @emollick

On a trip to Japan, ChatGPT advanced voice was incredibly useful.

Use custom instructions or say: “you are a translator between English and Japanese. You will wait for one person to finish talking and then translate into the other language. You will not add or say anything else”