[deleted]
Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
221–230 of 392 posts
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
#222Consider moving to a smaller company. You're going to get a lot of interruptions even with the right tools at any large company.
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
#223Not related to slack, but managing your ADHD symptoms. Look into a low oxalate diet, it really helped me and my children. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21911305/ https://www.greatplainslaboratory.com/articles-1/2015/11/13/... https://korunutrition.com/autism-low-oxalate-diet/ https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/vegetarianism-and...
Also helps with kidney stones. Eugh
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
#224To be brutally honest it does not seem like Slack is the actual problem. I think you are having difficulties performing and are looking for an excuse, and Slack seems convenient. Just uninstall the Slack desktop client and use the web browser once or twice a day. Get real work done.
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
#225I started using 4 virtual desktops to manage distractions many years ago and it’s worked wonderfully for me. Desktop 1 is for chat, email, Spotify, and general web browsing. Desktop 2 is for software development only, nowadays VSCode. A separate browser profile is used here and only for development related browsing (docs, stack overflow, live testing). Desktop 3 is data and system administration. Remote terminals, Ex…
I don't know how anyone lives without this. I have six desktops on my MBP with a similar organization:
1. Communication apps
2. Project management, todo lists
3+. Data science and work tools - RStudio, Excel, etc
There is a left-to-right flow: communication influences project roadmaps and to-do lists, which influence what actually gets done. You hang out on the right unless you need info from the left.
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
#226I don’t have ADHD but I get very distracted by Slack. Here’s what worked for me. 1. Slack app uninstalled on my phone. If I need it for something, I install it, use it, then delete again. 2. Slack app on my laptop fully closed by default. 3. Set times (about 5 a day) to check in and respond to notifications and scan channels. When I was a senior manager with lots of actually important messages these blocks were about…
These, or something very similar, are essential to concentration. It's just not possible otherwise. The problem is this means nothing if the work culture is an expectation of always being available. So it's not entirely a technical problem (like many work problems).
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
#227> They have 1000+ channels and my team is tagged in a lot of stuff so I get a lot of notifications.
You don't have to have ADHD to struggle with something as intense as this. We also have the same problem. I have probably 250+ channels in my sidebar.
I treat it like email. Muted everything. Read things sporadically. Mostly Cmd-Shift-Escape to mark everything is read.
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting links, thanks! (in case it helps anyone else...) About half a year ago I discovered that a brutally low carb diet -- leading to being in ketosis -- drastically helped my ADHD as well as other mental health things I've struggled with for my entire life. I wish I knew earlier!
Andrew Huberman recently had a Harvard educated psychiatrist on the podcast. This psychiatrist specialized in treatment resistant mental health conditions. He was trying to help a patient lose weight and inadvertently found it helped their psychiatric symptoms as well. Fast forward 5 years and he had written a book, and the tl;dr is that he has seen many patients improve their conditions be going low / no carb. For p…
This episode, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjEFo3a1AnI
Dr. Chris Palmer: Diet & Nutrition for Mental Health | Huberman Lab Podcast #99
> My guest this episode is Chris Palmer, M.D., a board-certified psychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He explains the important connection between nutrition, metabolism and mental health and his pioneering work using the ketogenic diet to successfully treat patients with various mental illnesses, including depression and schizophrenia. Dr. Palmer explains how the ketogenic diet is an evidenced-based treatment for epilepsy, mimics the fasted state and can offset the cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s. He describes the key roles of mitochondria in mental health, how certain conditions likely arise from mitochondrial dysfunction, and how low-carbohydrate diets increase mitochondrial turnover to improve mental health. He also explains how low-carbohydrate diets positively impact the gut microbiome and weight loss, important risk factors for mitochondrial health such as marijuana and alcohol, and the best way to increase circulating ketones depending on individual needs. We also cover how a ketogenic diet impacts mood, sleep, and fertility. Dr. Palmer’s work stands as a revolutionary approach to mental health and disease that, given the prevalence of mental health challenges, should be of interest to people of all backgrounds and ages.
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
#229I set up windows when I check slack with my team and use mac's focus features to disable it's notifications outside the windows.
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
#230I'm not diagnosed with ADHD, but Slack's notification noises trigger a visceral fight-or-flight response in me. Not PTSD surely, but in that spectrum. This was from an early stage startup experience with 10 hour timezone deltas, and never-not being on call for some crucial infrastructure. The sounds still evoke the dread,annoyance, and simmering resentment that accompanied a 4AM slack ping with the CTO just saying "H…
I know how you feel, after a few years of fully remote working, that knocking sound makes me cringe and twitch.
The fear response is real.