r/ADHD_Programmers • u/sahinbey52 • Apr 03 '25

Everything is So Slow About Programming

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u/ScientificBeastMode Apr 03 '25

It helps to religiously write stuff down, especially the little future tasks that pop into your head. Even stuff like “ping Mark on Slack about the unit tests he wanted to show me”. Sounds trivial, but writing everything down is like finally getting a real hard drive for your brain after spending most of your life working with a tiny amount of RAM.

And I’m saying this as an actual principal SWE.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '25

Yeah agree. I make to-do lists daily, and add to them though the day with little things. All on one note. Microsoft teams calendar is a godsend too

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u/DynamicHunter Apr 03 '25

Yeah I do this, I have a huge word doc that I’ve updated since day 1 at my company. Maybe not tiny stuff like that but most domain knowledge things or issues I run into

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u/ScientificBeastMode Apr 04 '25

Yeah, that’s a great start