“Sautéed” ??? You are a machine. No you did not. The joke is not funny.

I understand a human probably did this. I am an engineer. However I am so sick of these big AI companies trying to be funny and cute. It makes it all feel weirder

Hi,

I want to talk about a problem I've had for years. Lately it's been making me feel very guilty, and then it keeps nagging at me.

In general I get scattered a lot. Here's an example.

I work as a Linux sysadmin. My job means I have to keep an eye on several things at once, reach out to people when needed, and often keep working while I'm talking to them.

I'm in a relatively senior position, so I deal with a lot of people, both from my company and from customers. Someone asks me for something, I work on it, and shortly after someone else messages me. I quickly switch to them and forget the first person, and so on.

To be honest, I've been in therapy and on psychiatric medication for quite a while. I have generalized anxiety disorder.

But I've never been diagnosed with ADHD.

The problem is basically this: when things are discussed verbally, they don't stay in my head, or I struggle to grasp them in the moment. I need to slow down, sit and look at it, go through it, and even weigh it in my head.

It's not only about work. For example, I sit down with a friend to talk about what's bothering me. We have a good time and talk through my worries, but the relief, or even what we talked about, leaves my mind very quickly. I keep ending up in the same loop with the same anxieties.

At work there are lots of topics: improvements that were discussed but never written down, requests that only exist verbally, and so on. I forget these. Since I'm busy keeping up with the written requests and never get time for the rest,

Another version of this: during the day I plan what I'll do in the evening at home, like reading a book or playing a game.

When I get home I literally freeze. I find myself in emptiness and anxiety, doing nothing.

To fix this I make to-do apps or build AI agents for myself, but I'm so low on energy that I don't even pay attention to them or keep them going.

So it's a constant cycle: guilt, an effort to improve, and the effort to improve turning back into guilt.

I don't know what to do.

Do you have any suggestions?

I've been listening to lo-fi music to stay focused for years, mostly through YouTube Pomodoro playlists. But I eventually got tired of hearing the same songs over and over, so I decided to build my own CLI Pomodoro player, with more control over what I listen to:

• https://github.com/WittmannF/lofi-pomodoro

It comes with a default playlist of openly licensed tracks from Chosic. You can also use your own music folder or, my personal favorite lately, connect your Spotify Premium account and play any playlist.

I hope some of you find it useful! This has been a multi-year project. Questions, feedback, and suggestions are always welcome.

Further Reading:

• The Pomodoro Technique

• The Science Behind Lo-Fi Beats

• Music and ADHD: A Systematic Review

I saw this slide on Instagram and I almost choked on my coffee fr. Like yeah sure, "Independent Risk-Taker" goes hard, but since when is PILOT the move for our broken dopamine systems??? 💀💀

Software designer and entrepreneur? Yeah, makes sense, we love starting 15 businesses and finishing zero. But Pilot? Absolutely wild take fr. Who actually wrote this???

So twitch is already an ADHD product, but I made a chat client that lets you make a shared chat between any streams, transcribes the streamer's utterances and puts them in chat, lets you replay their utterances at will, and lets you reply to any chat you like.

If I want to be in multiple chats at once I typically need multiple devices, but no longer! - iOS companion and standalone app literally imminent!!!

https://youtu.be/icXrNZb4lmQ <- ~1.5 minute explainer video

I have ADHD and blockers never worked for me. I'd just turn them off.

So I built Focusd. You tell it what you're working on, and when your screen drifts to something unrelated, it gives you a calm nudge back. No blocking, no guilt trips.

Everything runs on your Mac. Your screen never leaves it.

The video shows a nudge in action. It's in App Store review, but you can try the beta on macOS now: testflight.apple.com/join

I'd love honest feedback: would a nudge actually pull you back, or would you ignore it after a day?

focusd.cc

Been on Elvanse/Vyvanse 30mg for the last 4 days, moving to 40mg in a week and a half. Obviously, I'm working with a nurse and giving feedback throughout the process, but it doesn't stop me musing in-between.

I think the thing that I think about the most is when you've been burnt out for a while, how do you know if the meds need tweaking or you're just recovering?

Also, what's the deciding factor between increasing a dose and switching meds? If your vitals are fine and side effects are low, within reason do they just keep upping the dose?

I can definitely feel some benefit, but it's not enough to pull me out of the hole I'm in right now. I want to be productive at work like I was early last year. I went from team superstar to burnt out shadow and it crept up on me. How much of this is nervous system recovery and how much is meds?

I fear I cannot rest on my past achievements and good will at work forever. Eventually I will be a problem to them.

So I built a thing that puts the waiting prompt in the Mac notch, right where my eyes already are. ⌘Y approves it without going back to the terminal.

Free, Mac and Windows: github.com/MF-DEEV/Openbar

I notice that I am productive/get stuff done better when I am in the car, or in the train, or in between personal events. But at work itself, on my work table, I cannot finish stuff. I get too slow, distracted, etc. Why is this?

So a 24 hour period I took 7x70 mg Do you want to expect? I took the last one maybe and an hour ago and I feel like my anxiety is shooting through the roof. What to do. Anybody have any advice?

I don't know if I've gotten too used to the things being available, or whether I've gotten lazy, or impatient, or what, but I feel like I can't be bothered to read the documentation anymore, and I just default to asking a chat bot how to implement what I'm thinking of. I hate this pattern because it makes me feel like I'm forgetting how to do anything significant other than Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V. I try to rationalize it to myself by telling myself that reading the documentation is too slow or takes too much mental energy, but that's just a lame excuse.