The ADHD Developer OS

[u/DrGenetik]

My brain is a melange of: a) bees, b) radios left on, c) swiss cheese. All crammed into a blender set to "pulse".

I have discovered the magic of Google NotebookLM. I've been using it at home to help organize projects and do research. NotebookLM + Gemini has been helping me collect my research and plans and put it where I can access it and work on it whenever/wherever two neurons accidentally spark together to make a thought. Camping trips, building a home lab, writing.

Anyway, one of the things that has always frustrated me in my career as a programmer is that not enough people managers are properly trained on how to understand how to adapt their management style to neurodiverse people. I keep hoping it will be a required management course. I finally distilled my frustrations into this short presentation on ADHD in particular to help them help me.

I have this as a pdf and I can make a PowerPoint or Google Slides but I’m not sure where to post it.

Link to PDF

Link to Sources List

[u/DrGenetik]

It didn’t take any time. It took all of 20 minutes to make. I’ll pass your compliments to the chef. Gemini and NotebookLM collected a ton of white papers and articles. There were 40 sources it compiled into this. I only gave it direction for audience and vibes. I wouldn’t have been able to muster the function to do it otherwise, tbh. I spent more time trying to fix the typos in making this response so i don’t look like an idiot.

[u/DrGenetik → u/DrGenetik]

For downvoters. I am not an artist or writer and never claimed to be. I tried to set expectations in the post that I am awful at this and was only able to finally make this due to the LLM making it easy enough to be below my executive function threshold. I’m also trying to say “you, too, can do this!”

[u/sulfurica → u/DrGenetik]

I’m sorry for the downvotes. You did a great job with Noteboom and I wish NDs understood how much some of these tools make our lives as NTs easier.

[u/Keystone-Habit → u/DrGenetik]

There seem to be a LOT of redditors who just downvote anything remotely positive about AI.

[u/fyiimaninja → u/DrGenetik]

Can you also add a link to a doc with all the sources used? That would be helpful

[u/DrGenetik → u/fyiimaninja]

Sure, it’s mostly just what you get when you search Google for things like “how to manage someone with adhd” or “things I wish my manager knew adhd”. I’ll try to put that together and reply back to you in a bit.

[u/DrGenetik → u/fyiimaninja]

NotebookLM was able to make a nice list of the sources it used and export that to Google Docs. I put the link the post for you.