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They are also constantly defended.

Good, calibrated IQ tests measure something, and that something has a positive correlation with work efficiency in at least certain types of work.

That said, there are many types of IQ tests and some of them are in my opinion rather weird, for example anything where your score depends on your knowledge of English language or English history as I hear has traditionally been the case in US.

Around here it seems they try to make the tests as little dependent on language, history and even math as possible and the ones I have taken has largely been about:

- pattern matching (of these 6 squares with various patterns, which one doesn't fit in?)

- sequences (based on these 3 squares with patterns, which is the next one?)

- and that kind of stuff

These skills are things that are very real, very measurable and often linked to work throughput. Yes, I rarely visualize boxes in my head and rotate them and I rarely sift through through black and white squares with alternating patterns at work, but it seems the ability to do so is often linked to the ability to mentally single step code or spot patterns in bug reports.

It doesn't mean that you are good person if your score is high (or low) and it doesn't mean that you will be a good employee and not waste your time on HN.

Perhaps you shouldn't use something that happened 75 years ago against someone to justify something someone else did a month ago?

So intuitive.

Different shortcuts from app to app. Back when I used Mac last time it frustrated me to no end that the simple system that works everywhere on Windows and Linux:

- home / end for start / end of line

- arrow left /right to move one character at at time

- ctrl to move one word at a time

- shift combines nicely with all these in case you need to select the text you move across

while on Mac of course home and end doesn't exist (bonus point for there being two keys there that could have been home and end or page up and page down, but that even the most dyed in the wool Mac users I know cannot explain what they are for) and while I think it is rather consistent now, back then it wasn't consistent that CMD - arrow worked like home or end.

There were different shortcuts from app to app and today I have learned that even the one shortcut I thought was consistent from app tp app on Mac, CMD-X, CMD-C and CMD-V aren't consistent as Finder isn't lacking CMD-x, they have just decided to do it differently so you use CMD-shift-V instead to paste by cutting (?), breaking to consistency even of that.

It is like the (effective, not written) building regulations in my area:

Just make sure your house doesn't look similar to any other house in the area and you should be good.

And yet I have asked for a Macbook for my new laptop. After 10 years I just had to try. The last one was fantastic, only the OS was rage inducing even after 3 years.

This time however I have done my homework. I have a Mac mini, I have checked that the fn and ctrl key can now be put in their correct positions and there now exist a way to fix CMD-tab so it does the only logical and sane thing: switches between the last windows.

Still: wish me luck.

Thanks! Will try something along the lines.

When I am in flow state however something more drastic might be needed : )

Hi again, and thanks for your website about plurality.

I am not affected but I am aware of at least one person who seemed to be affected and it was really really interesting to read.

> You can try to reformat it or place it in some other context where it becomes doable, but these are specific coping mechanisms that shouldn't always be necessary, like they are for someone with severe enough ADHD

OK, I see, I think we agree very much here.

Edit: based on interaction elsewhere in this thread, it seems I and LoganDark agree very much. I don't have time to rewrite this now, the compile finished a few minutes ago already, so just keep in mind that I and LoganDark seems to agree to a large degree when you read this.

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There are the medical definitions, and there are the things you understand when you have friends and family with ADHD and you hear them describe it.

Yes, executive function is the problem.

Also yes, thanks partially to that and frequent comorbidities ADHD-ers also experience:

- time blindness (maybe because flow is so much more important to ADHD-ers that they have learned to hold to it at all cost?)

- on average fewer slots in short time memory (I don't know it this is in DSM, but it is well known)

- anxiety and depression

- etc

Every doctor I have spoken to is well aware that ADHD has many problems in addition to the ones stated in the diagnostic criterias.

I realize my comment above can be read as "time dyslexia is the whole problem with ADHD" and that was not my intention. Thanks for your perspective!

I also totally agree that ADHD-ers know what time is.

That said, ADHD is a thing I have to deal with and for me and a number of those I know who have ADHD, "time dyslexia" is a very good explanation for a subset of the problems we observe.

> They absolutely cannot work on the task no matter how hard they try. They have not forgotten. They are not slacking off. They literally just can't do it. Their brain refuses to think about it, their body refuses to move for it. They don't have the willpower or the motivation for it. They are trapped. They are completely unable to make any progress because their brain will not let them.

Here it is you who are taking agency away from ADHD-ers.

Many can, it just takes a lot more effort than for other students/workers.

Things I have seen working:

- restricting oneself heavily so that the work at hand becomes the only possible thing to do

- conjuring up reasons why something is intersting

- pair programming

- various ways of sneaking up to the subject (start by fixing a few small issues, them improve a unit test, then make a small prototype, then take a look at the actual problem in question)

- gamification

- etc

ADHD is sometimes wittily described as time dyslexia, and while I haven't met anyone who has described symptoms as bad as this and also know friends with ADHD who play music seemingly effortlessly, this article was still very interesting to me.

I have understood and it also observed that meditation can help somewhat, and I wonder what else can help for people otherwise function well who struggle with time?

> Worked for satellites,

Nice example!

> ... worked for 1984.

Another nice example, but ouch, that hurt.

At the consulting company I work for Linux has been an option for 6+ years together with Mac and Windows.

Hey, even at the customer I work with now (a rather influential directorate), people have the option to choose Mac or Linux.

And: pro-tip, if you are going to work in such a place (public directorate), consider taking the Mac option because unlike with Windows PCs there are limits to how cheap the bean counters can get them and the budgets for hardware is optimised independently of the budget for hiring more people to cover for the fact that they aren't nearly as effective as they could have been and I am afraid - also the hiring budget. (The Linux option is the second best: you get the same hardware but with Linux you make the best out of it.)

And I don't have to wade through Stack Overflow and see all the times mods and others have tried to or succeeded in closing down very useful questions.

My problem is if I start eating I feel I have to go on until I am satisfied.

So small breakfasts doesn't work, it often merely triggers my hunger even if it is just egg and bacon.

So my solution is just to skip it all together. If food isn't on the agenda my body totally accepts that.