Thank you for this! Your post hit me this afternoon like a freight train made of butter and cotton candy. I've been so stressed about my youngest son, who is very adhd and mildly autistic. He struggles with focus, executive function, non-preferred tasks---all of the "grown up" skills that the world says you must have in order to lead a good life. School is a non-stop battle, one that we always feel on the verge of losing catastrophically. My own ADHD/over-involved parent brain constantly projects worst case scenarios 20 years into the future.
The only time the worry subsides is when I spend time with him--driving, hiking, father-son trips to Las Vegas, trips to the gun range, watching funny videos. In those moments, he is so lucid, so original, so insightful, so incredibly funny and capable of meta-connections across disparate domains that it blows my mind.
The worry is still there. Will probably always be there, if I'm honest. But man, this post was just what I needed to read today.
It’s exciting to have something that can keep up. It also feels like a wormhole when you can get a concept to a finished design in 10 min. This is our time! 🎉
Alex Karp (Palantir founder, ADHD) has the exactly the same POV. AI actually solves all the weakness of ADHD, which is a working memory and also organized executions, but only left with the good points or the advantages of ADHD, which is creating, understanding complicated issues and figuring out the key factors. For example, I am not using todoist but an ADHD AI version called Codot. It basically remembers everything via voice so that I don't click, type or scroll at all with my phone. I just speak anything, it will do the rest executions.
I am an ADHD entrepreneur, and since Claude Code, I feel my world just open up, and I have enormous opportunity to realize what I imagined.
Loved this post! …that I read while waiting for 4 different Claude things to complete, 1 perplexity widget to finish running, while cooking dinner and doing who knows what else. Finally the multi-tasking keeps up and it feels liberating Instead of overwhelming.
Brian--
Thank you for this! Your post hit me this afternoon like a freight train made of butter and cotton candy. I've been so stressed about my youngest son, who is very adhd and mildly autistic. He struggles with focus, executive function, non-preferred tasks---all of the "grown up" skills that the world says you must have in order to lead a good life. School is a non-stop battle, one that we always feel on the verge of losing catastrophically. My own ADHD/over-involved parent brain constantly projects worst case scenarios 20 years into the future.
The only time the worry subsides is when I spend time with him--driving, hiking, father-son trips to Las Vegas, trips to the gun range, watching funny videos. In those moments, he is so lucid, so original, so insightful, so incredibly funny and capable of meta-connections across disparate domains that it blows my mind.
The worry is still there. Will probably always be there, if I'm honest. But man, this post was just what I needed to read today.
It’s exciting to have something that can keep up. It also feels like a wormhole when you can get a concept to a finished design in 10 min. This is our time! 🎉
Alex Karp (Palantir founder, ADHD) has the exactly the same POV. AI actually solves all the weakness of ADHD, which is a working memory and also organized executions, but only left with the good points or the advantages of ADHD, which is creating, understanding complicated issues and figuring out the key factors. For example, I am not using todoist but an ADHD AI version called Codot. It basically remembers everything via voice so that I don't click, type or scroll at all with my phone. I just speak anything, it will do the rest executions.
I am an ADHD entrepreneur, and since Claude Code, I feel my world just open up, and I have enormous opportunity to realize what I imagined.
Loved this post! …that I read while waiting for 4 different Claude things to complete, 1 perplexity widget to finish running, while cooking dinner and doing who knows what else. Finally the multi-tasking keeps up and it feels liberating Instead of overwhelming.
Wow, go Juju. Love this post.
Holy smokes this hit me like a train. So absolutely spot on. Thank you!!!!! Sending this to an old manager 😂
And my girlfriend