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There's a great series from the Corridor team talking to the artists involved in just this topic

https://youtu.be/DJEdzyuYfZk

Cultural genocide IS a big deal. Whether it be by small disrespectful or ignorant acts such as this, or by structures and institutions of a dominant culture that form, allow, and perpetuate those acts.

We need more of your mate. Too many people willing to clear willy-nilly to make a buck around.

As someone who has a similar issue with the MS teams/email divide...

Tldr: reduce reactivity and context switching. It will leave you exhausted and feeling like you are not making progress long term.

Chunk, at predetermined times for a set period. Scan information channels in a set order first, broadly sort into topics. Go through each topic and extract relevant detail/actions into a separate personal log on the topic.

Tl: One thing that is often overlooked is how this way of working puts you in to a hyper-reactive mode, taking you away from the things you had originally wanted to tackle at the beginning of the day. It is procrastination, it is your brain looking for an excuse to do something else. This will stoke the belief that, despite best intentions, you get distracted, can't work on the things you need/want to do and fail to make meaningful progress leaving you feeling tired and that you've fallen behind.

For me (read: maybe for you too, maybe not) what works is checking those channels at predefined intervals throughout the day (as you suggested) but having a prioritised list that you stick to in which ones you check, for how long, and follow that list each time. While going through, write a task oriented summary of the actions you need to take. If the information is more status/contextual/fyi on a particular thing, have a diary/log for that particular thing where you are updating you knowledge/understanding/the status of that particular thing.

For example: I'm working on a complex project right now where there are 10 separate countries all doing similar but different things across several technology stacks. Most of this is over email, so things easily get lost in a sea of email headers and signatures. Similar but different issues in different countries get mixed up. It's hard. Even without ADHD. First I generally sort all emails into folders or with labels by topic. Then I'll go through each topic separately and copy out the relevant detail and append it to a running document on that particular thing with details of who said what and when.

You can do this low tech, but I like to use obsidian to markup and further link info on things/concepts/people/dates so I can search across it later.

I hope this helps someone.

And for god's sake, turn off ALL the notifications you can!

Put a note in your status starting 'if it's urgent, call'. This is an entirely reasonable request.

Good luck

I've been looking at simple mathematical logic problems that are computer science adjacent and while I've had a little success on some simple toy scenarios, I've found it incredibly difficult to get it to provide even "directionally correct" solutions for anything useful.

Coding is probably a pretty restricted problem space. After all, there's only so many ways you can handle a string until something throws an error.

As someone who works in big consulting I understand the frustration but have to disagree. A lot of the time we have great people doing great work but we can only take it so far. Clients have to both be willing (want to) and able (have people with the appropriate skills required) to change. If we aren't guiding implementation and leave it to the client often times it will just fall in a heap, out be forgotten about

Usually I would agree, but SAP and other ERP software are handled differently from most other software procurement.

Procurement is one of the core functions of the SAP ecosystem, so those most closely involved in buying it here are usually the ones who will be using it.

It's not so much complexity as it is removing manual process steps and reducing all the risks and overhead associated with taking data on one format and loading it in to another - at scale

A book I'm surprised doesn't get more love, this book really helped pull together a lot of things I "knew" about computing at the time and how to approach knowing things from breaking them down more generally.

Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering by Eldad Eilam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversing:_Secrets_of_Reverse_...

Do you know if they were using other forms of treatment alongside medication? Or was medication their only treatment?

I really hope this is the case but like all "groundbreaking" discoveries, I'm going to take this with a grain of salt (because any more salt than that is going to send my BP even higher).

For me I decided it was worth the risk. I've had great BP my entire life, so since starting stimulant medication over a year ago it really does push my BP to the limit of "ok" and into the start of "let's keep and eye on it" territory, which means I'm probably overly cautious, but it's hard not to be when you notice something really different to your usual baseline. Especially since I need to take additional medication in the evening to reduce my heart rate before I go to bed or I won't be able to sleep.

I hope this opens up a treatment pathway for a lot of people who need it. Especially those with a late diagnosis for whom it would be beneficial to finally give them the space to make lasting change/progress.

Years ago I had a massively downvoted comment when I criticised his AR for CAD vapour ware. As someone who was fully in that area at the time, what he was showing while looking fancy had no practical application in the area of design he was talking about.

Ever watch someone do CAD/CAM modelling? They need extreme precision of input that AR sausage fingers just aren't going to help with. You need a num-pad and a good mouse with a stepped click wheel.

I get it. We share some similar neurodivergence traits. He wants to be right in the detail. Constantly jumping from interest to interest, seeing the hidden patterns and connections that aren't apparent to others. But there are a times when I know I just need to shut up and let someone more experienced talk despite my brain wanting to lead every discussion right into solution mode, or providing additional context mode.

I've spent the last 6 years in management consulting (without formal business education), I agree with him when he says MBAs are useless. We know that the best solutions come from diverse teams with diverse backgrounds, skills and knowledge. Not 5 clones who know how to build value driver trees, not to say the tools they bring aren't useful, but they can be incredibly limiting.

For someone who hates MBAs he's sure going about this take-over like someone who barely passed one (i.e. knows more than enough to be dangerous). Sure, you're hemorrhaging money in operations. You need to cut costs and find new revenue streams.

What are your biggest costs?

Labor. Slash / Burn. The old McKinsey 7% FTE reduction will give you some extra operating cash from the years remaining budget and you know it's not so much that people (in fear of their jobs) won't just pick up the slack to keep everything moving. Do it quick because you need to rip the band-aid off and get rid of all that accrued leave, restricted cash etc. off your books too.

Equipment. Redundancy? Sounds like unused resources we can fire sale.

Contracts. Renegotiate? The only two meaningful levers are price and quantity. Start cutting quantity now, renegotiate price later.

This is all dummies guide stuff and tends to go terribly in reality when implemented all at once all together.

For instance, research has shown companies that lay-off when under pressure end up underperforming against the ones who chose not to.

Now who's going to help build and operate those new revenue streams?

Quick fixes for a quick buck and a whole lot of extra risk.

I did, my Blood Pressure is not great either but luckily, not enough to prevent taking anything, but enough to be careful. I'm in ok shape, not the best I've ever been in, but not terrible. I just take something to help reduce my heart rate at night.

Unfortunately stimulants don't have much of an affect on me so I take quite a high dose at the moment. I'm doing all the suggested things to help them along, like increasing protein, getting more Zinc, Magnesium, Vitamin D etc, staying away from citrus. Ensuring good sleep hygiene.

I see a psychologist regularly to unpick the weight of all the masking and coping mechanisms. It's a long process, but making much more progress than when I thought it was just depression and perfectionism issues.

I'm starting Neurofeedback to see if that helps and planning to use an ADHD specific performance coach in the new year to help with work.

There is a lot of overlap in symptoms with other conditions. OCD, Autism, MDD etc. Knowing exactly what the underlying issue is gives you the best way forward in treating effectively.

That sounds similar to me. I was diagnosed unexpectedly at 38 and it changed my life. There is a good chance your internalised coping mechanisms are adding undue stress to your nervous system, making you tired and depressed, and ironically exacerbating the conditions for symptoms to become more disruptive (when you're tired, aren't eating properly, hyperfocusing too much and wearing yourself out, working late nights to catch up and not getting enough sleep, rinse, repeat, constant burnout).

If it's within your means to do so, I can't stress enough how much better it is knowing, for sure.

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Wow Another Simpsons did it first moment (https://frinkiac.com/img/S07E15/318918.jpg)

Before explaining it's important to note that even if it wasn't intended to be, comments such as this can be incredibly harmful, especially with people who are preparing too to get diagnosed, or who have recently been diagnosed. Doubting your diagnosis (or any mental health diagnosis) is an incredibly common and damaging thing for treatment. Please be mindful in avoiding activating that negative belief.

It's not that they didn't think I had it. It never occurred to them that it might be the problem, for several reasons. I presented very clearly suffering from MDD and general anxiety and have been medicated for that my entire adult life. But in fact the MDD and anxiety were just symptoms of living undiagnosed and trying to live as best I could with what worked for me.

I generally agree with that. It should not be glamourized. I liken it to being like Cyclops in the X-Men. Sure you can shoot lasers out of your eyes, but you can never look upon the love of your life naturally and unfiltered.

That being said, some of most cherished achievements would not have been possible without it, and that's where the cognitive dissonance begins.

> Weirdly, he was there due to some sponsorship related to disabilities because he had ADHD.

Can I ask why you find that weird? ADHD is, and is also comorbid with other learning disabilities.

ADHD has so many dimensions and interrelationships between those dimensions that everybody's lived experience is different. If you know one person with ADHD, then you know one person with ADHD, you don't know everyone with ADHD.

Heck my best friend growing up had severe ADHD, what used to be called "ring-of-fire". Both his parents are clinical experts in ADHD, and have been since he was young. Yet despite knowing me incredibly well over a couple of decades none of them suspected that I had it. To be fair, three psychiatrists and dozens of psychologists missed it too, until one had a hunch that finally led to me getting diagnosed in my late 30s.

>"Highly recommend not yelling at yourself constantly."

In Australia we call this "Living the dream".

Not the OP, just found this to be a really interesting workflow

Large mesh laundry bags. Different colours. Split your dirty smalls, t-shirts, bedding etc. between them then just zip them and throw one in the wash each day at some set time. You still have to remember to take them out again.

I've seriously considered installing some kind of soundproofed/vibration-isolated cupboard inside my walk in wardrobe to just keep everything in the same place, but my wife is less than keen. A laundry chute, however, surprisingly, still on the cards.

I get it. I'm lucky enough that I can spend thousands a year to get the professional support I need but simply turning up to talk for an hour a week isn't going to achieve much, you have to put in the work to set up your life, your environment in a way that works for you to help slowly improve the chances that your have more good days than bad and not get drawn into a black hole of bad days that just sucks all your energy, motivation, will. Everyone is different but coaching should help you find the practical changes you can make to shift the needle towards more good days and less bad.

Here are two basic things that worked for me and I recommend to everyone.

1. A pill organiser. Medication helps a little, but not a lot for me, however if I don't take it I know I'm increasing my risks of having a bad day somehow. So I know I need to regularly take my pills. Problem was, I kept forgetting if I'd had a morning dose, or a lunch dose, or maybe if forgotten to fill my prescription on the weekend and ran out midweek, or forgot to pack my pill bottle. On Saturday mornings I fill a weekly pill organiser (7 removable plastic box things with 4 sections). This way I know if I need to top up at the pharmacy ahead of the work week. I also visually see if I've taken a particular dose. It's also more compact and easy to carry than bottles and blisters.

Sure it's not perfect. Last saturday night I filled it up then went to bed forgetting to take the actual dose for that night. I missed my antidepressants and the repercussions from withdrawal can last a couple of days. However, this was a much more common occurrence before I started doing this.

So that's a big change for managing my symptoms right there. Sure it might not be relevant for your situation but it's an example of a system/habit that helps manage symptoms

2. A translucent plastic water bottle with a built in straw. I'd hate to think what my kidneys look like. I've never been good at staying hydrated because (as I now know) my nervous system isn't very good at telling me about those sorts of things until it's dire. I'd easily go a whole work day without any fluids and not notice. I'd try jugs of water on my desk, or setting alarms. All to distracting. I'm also clumsy (dyspraxia como) so would end up spilling stuff everywhere, or dropping glasses.

Then someone suggested a water bottle with a straw. I was sceptical but it has changed my life and I know how stupid it sounds but I can't stress enough how much of positive impact it has had on my health and well-being.

I (and others) theorise that it's much easier to drink while still maintaining visual attention on what your doing. You don't need too engage as much hand eye coordination etc.

So there's another change.

I don't want to sound like some corny psa, but having simple systems to help support me in properly taking my medication and staying hydrated means I can take on the world freeze frame. cut to titles

But seriously. These have by no means "cured" me. But they really help. A lot.

It's almost as if a website that's constantly updating you on the full breadth of technology in our world is some form of magnet for people with ADHD :D

I've often thought the same thing and have heard it from others too.

Body doubling seems to be a common technique. I've often considered if some form of self surveillance (webcam, heart rate, computer usage metrics) combined with ML could observe and "nudge" you along.

For (intrusive) thoughts sometimes I'd rather not fight it because I'll randomly suddenly remember something that I couldn't recall over an hour ago, or be reminded, or see a vague connection to another topic that could be useful to investigate later.

Maybe it's not so much being reminded to stay on task but make it as frictionless as possible to capture something and put it away safely so before you get completely derailed...

As for attention "drift" when you're forcing yourself to work on something that really saps your energy so your subconscious is trying to protect you by pulling you away? The only thing I've found to help is to organise my life so that the conditions that cause that to occur have less of a chance of happening (getting enough sleep, eating protein, taking medication at consistent time with food, meditating, listening to my body and taking regular breaks to prevent crossing the overwhelm threshold, do enough housework on routine so there's no reasonable excuse to do a load of laundry) which I guess is what a lot of coaching will try and help you do, setting up practical systems to remove triggers and optimise the ideal conditions (my speculation).

I can't remember why I started writing this reply or if I'm even anywhere close to it being on topic now, but rather than delete it, I'm just going to leave it here.

>Sometimes I get weird routing through Asia if a service determines I'm better suited for that.

It's a mix of traffic, peering agreements between providers* and QoS rules on the routers you hop through along the way. After your request leaves your ISPs hardware often you have no choice where it goes next.

Something that wasn't mentioned was that this is why traders will pay millions to set up servers in DCs/IXs all the way between them and the market so they have more control over the route their traffic takes. Sometimes even running their own cables.

SEA-ME-WE-3, the cable you were talking about was the only game in town for that side of the country until about 4 years ago when ASC came online. ASC has over 10 times the capacity (60Tbit/s) of SEA-ME-WE-3 which was below 1 Tbit/s until 2009 and is not only 4.6 Tbit/s according to wiki. It's worth noting that SEA-ME-WE-3 is administered by Singtel there are 90+ other investors (who were all getting preference or had capacity agreements at launch).

* this is complicated, someone feel free to correct/expand but essentially carriers will lease capacity over particular connections and sometimes the agreements between two carriers will mean particular customers traffic may get preference, so on busy lines, businesses paying for higher SLAs get prefered over regular consumers who might shunted off to a lower grade connection where there's space.

There's a great example with NTT's partnership with Formula 1 where NTT engineers go in before race day to location making sure all that incredible Digital Twin data is getting fed back-to-base to manufacturer's HQs in the UK or Germany etc. as fast as possible. Sure there's the pit crew, but there's a whole team back home who are watching and analysing data and relaying advice. F1 is really an incredible technical feat in more ways than just the cars.

In this case it was about once a year and it was the only cable directly connecting the two locations. There was one occasion where there was a break only months after one was finally repaired, really frustrating. There are more cables taking that route now, so a bit of redundancy.

Most of the time I'd find out officially via network operators bulletin boards (i.e. those looking after AS and IXs) there wouldn't be anything reported in the local news because, for most people, as this article alludes to, the content edge servers they actually connect to are pretty close, both physically (distance) and virtually (hops).

I never really appreciated the relationship and importance of bandwidth, latency and packet loss until I had to move a small office from all on-prem infrastructure to completely cloud based at a regional data centre, about 10 years ago. And I mean completely. locally we had firewall, router, riverbed, UPS that's it for max 40 people. No data at rest (besides riverbed cache) due to security.

We had ridiculous bandwidth for the time, which users knew, and they would often come and ask "why can I stream youtube in HD but accessing my document/file takes ages" (ages being anything more than 2-3 seconds). A perfectly valid question. The answer was usually "illegal fishing", or "sharks". If the primary sub-sea cable was cut, we'd have to route through another which would add at least 400ms round trip extra.

Luckily this was a well known risk/issue for our parent company who had a team dedicated to negotiating peering and routing between office locations and their nearest regional DCs (these were not azure, aws, etc. usually local IX or Teclco). But they couldn't do anything about the sharks :(.

I sincerely envy you

Yeah, I get it, why should we have to change to fit in a capitalism shaped hole? Absolutely. I struggle with that constantly. But it's much more than that. If it's only affecting your work and nothing else in your life then you're almost lucky.