Individuals with ADHD often possess a vast reservoir of knowledge but struggle with limited working memory capacity, likened to having a large hard drive and minimal RAM. This limitation necessitates an external 'second brain' to capture thoughts, tasks, and ideas immediately to avoid forgetfulness. Writing down information, whether on paper or digitally, enhances retention, with digital methods offering advantages in searchability while handwritten notes may improve memory consolidation.
Do you feel like ADHD is holding you back? Maybe you don't personally have ADHD but you work with folks who do and you'd like to support them better. Either way, how ADHD interplays with programming and programmers is pretty fascinating. On this episode we have Chris Ferdinandi who himself has ADHD and has written a lot about it to share his journey and his advice for thriving with ADHD as a programmer or data scientist.
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