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Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
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Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
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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.
Thanks for explaining the reasoning of the left to right ordering, makes total sense! Will try this setup on Monday :-)
Yeah, I think for multiple desktops the key is a stable organization. Otherwise there's a lot of frustration because much of what you're doing is not on your current desktop and you're going to be hunting for it, and where is it this time?
The left-to-right principle also helps with the organization of the work desktops, which is more fluid and project-dependent.
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
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I'm curious about what you mean by "inbound". It sounds like messages from someone "outside" but not sure if that is probably a limited definition.
I mean sources of incoming work, could be a quick question, an ask for something, automated alarm or a bug. Slack makes it super hard to stay on top of this and systematically triage the low from the high value.
Thank you
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
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I don't think I actually put this together until I read your comment. My actual diagnosis came just after I went off keto after having been doing it pretty steadily for about 3 years. I wonder now if the reason I noticed the symptoms of lack of focus more prior to seeking help and my diagnosis now was because it was better controlled while I was on keto and in ketosis. I know looking back I still had symptoms. I can…
My random opinion: It's best to go on Keto intermittently; say 2 month on, 2 months off, or similar variation. I would be hesitant to be on it permanently, but doing it off and on feels safer to me. One of the nice things, for me, in terms of having been on Keto occassionally, if that it's given me the ability to go for extended periods without needing to eat. I don't crash, in terms of blood sugar, the way I used to…
Ketogenic diets likely increase insulin sensitivity, which may explain your experience.
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
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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…
I've been trying a ketogenic diet since listening to this episode and over the past few days have noticed an improvement in not only my ADHD symptoms, but a decrease in anxiety as well. I'm very optimistic about this, though I'm skeptical about being on keto in the long term.
I've seen similar effects with intermittent fasting combined with a whole foods plant-based diet. This will likely be my long-term strategy.
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
#356Not 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...
Please don't give advice like this on the Internet; you are not a qualified physician, you do not know what this person's life actually is, what medicines they're currently taking, what allergies they have, etc. You could literally kill someone with the wrong "benign" advice at the wrong time. Turning off Slack won't kill anyone (probably) but suggesting a diet or medication very well could. Just don't do it.
Here's what a typical primary care physician will do: prescribe you non-stimulant ADHD medication with potentially terrible side effects and since those don't work for a lot of people, they will move on to prescribing amphetamines with terrible side effects. Most physicians receive little training in nutrition (I believe one class is standard).
You should consider reevaluating your blind faith in physicians (they were an instrumental part of the opioid crisis after all), especially when it drives you to make a dismissive comment like this in response to a benign suggestion about a dietary change that you seemingly haven't evaluated before responding. Here the individual has seen success with this approach for themselves and others and is simply sharing their experience. They're not suggesting anything extreme or dangerous.
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
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I would never do that. You get marked as someone who requires special accommodation. Adhd is one of those things that only come up every now and then.
Yes, but then you get special accommodation . Accommodations that, y'know, help you manage and deal with getting your work done.
I don’t think they would know how to do that.
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
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> If the quality of doctors follows the same distribution as that one of SW engineers How could you possibly think that it does, considering the entire ocean of difference between their education and training???
Does that have much of an impact on distribution? I don't think so. You still gonna have ones which are very good at their job, some are average and the rest is part of the long tail. Edit: Also in context of the conversation above, what I wanted to suggest is that that information can still be very valuable to whoever reads it. Even if it comes from someone who is not a doctor.
It absolutely does narrow the distribution substantially.
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
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Please don't give advice like this on the Internet; you are not a qualified physician, you do not know what this person's life actually is, what medicines they're currently taking, what allergies they have, etc. You could literally kill someone with the wrong "benign" advice at the wrong time. Turning off Slack won't kill anyone (probably) but suggesting a diet or medication very well could. Just don't do it.
Here's what a typical primary care physician will do: prescribe you non-stimulant ADHD medication with potentially terrible side effects and since those don't work for a lot of people, they will move on to prescribing amphetamines with terrible side effects. Most physicians receive little training in nutrition (I believe one class is standard). You should consider reevaluating your blind faith in physicians (they wer…
People like you kill others because of your ego. You should feel deep, profound shame and guilt for how much damage you cause to society.
Your ideas are how we got the Ivermectin craze, for example.
Shame on you.
Re: Ask HN: I have diagnosed ADHD and cannot work with Slack anymore – advice?
#360Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please don't give advice like this on the Internet; you are not a qualified physician, you do not know what this person's life actually is, what medicines they're currently taking, what allergies they have, etc. You could literally kill someone with the wrong "benign" advice at the wrong time. Turning off Slack won't kill anyone (probably) but suggesting a diet or medication very well could. Just don't do it.
A suggestion to look into something, with links to start the research, on a forum like this. Totally fine. People can do their own research on this forum, if someone is on special meds, they are smart enough to check with doctor before implementing something weird. Besides, a dietary change is going to have slow effects, plenty of time for correcting mistakes.
It's not "totally fine" it's wildly irresponsible and dangerous, and frankly should be banned.