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I’ve basically taught myself to manage my ADHD with notes and threads. My “schedule intelligence” (deadlines, calendars, checklist) is terrible but my recognition and web-jumping is fantastic, so I spent something like a decade using the latter to build an elaborate mind-palace
This is actually a nice and meta example of what I’m talking about, in real-time action. Because of threading and recognition, I can almost always pick up where I left off https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1076189477901463552?s=21
I used to feel guilty and ashamed about the idea of having to rely on a prosthetic, but I’ve since learned to see it as a mecha for the mind https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/906248623448621057?s=21
If you’re like me, keep meticulous notes of whatever you do when you’re procrastinating. I think of it as “deep-self-directed work”. If you’re going to watch trashy movies then write down your thoughts after watching each movie. It’ll come in handy in ways you least expect
To me, the most critical part of becoming “so good they can’t ignore you” is to be “so prolific you don’t recognise yourself”. Once you cross that threshold you can actually look at your own work with a relatively objective, critical eye https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1075091316390809600?s=21
People are sometimes surprised to hear how agnostic and indifferent I am to specific methods, formats, tools. The only thing that really matters to me is a sense of flow and throughout through the entire pipeline https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1076409079499640832?s=21
Be so prolific you don’t recognise yourself https://twitter.com/edyong209/status/1081668429059362817?s=21
Getting lost is a feature not a bug, the only real problem is getting jammed https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1062324957902888961?s=21
what am I even looking at? lol
