Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems (2025)
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Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems (2025)
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Re: Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems (2025)
#2The article glorifies neurodiversity as an wanted trait, which is perfectly suited to build perfect software. There are no downsides, you just have to sooth neurodivergent people somehow with some dim cozy lighting and silence.
I wish some programmers would be more stubborn exploring a problem space. But being randomly obsessed about a detail can also be a distraction. Loosing track of time during an obsessed phase isn't always helpful. All this is also often a easy way to ignore responsibilities of life.
I suggest that all nerodivergent peers go on high alert if they encounter business people and wanna be hustlers that pretend to care.
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#3I've met neurodivergent people who couldn't even stay on track long enough to prepare a regular dinner. Strong "neurogenetic executive failure" is a common trait. It's nowhere near as black and white as the article wants to make it out to be.
Re: Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems (2025)
#4The article glorifies neurodiversity as an wanted trait, which is perfectly suited to build perfect software. There are no downsides, you just have to sooth neurodivergent people somehow with some dim cozy lighting and silence. I wish some programmers would be more stubborn exploring a problem space. But being randomly obsessed about a detail can also be a distraction. Loosing track of time during an obsessed phase i…
You are right, an obsessive personality can obsses over perfecting the wrong solution.
Re: Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems (2025)
#5This piece is wildly unfair to folks with neuro-divergence - all get lumped into one bucket. Everything suggested is either a "works-for-me" assertion, from a sample size of 1, or a broad generalization about typical neuro-divergent individuals - and that seems like a contradiction in terms. Let's be fair here.
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#6What are examples of companies with neurodivergent leadership?
Re: Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems (2025)
#7I've met neurodivergent people who couldn't even stay on track long enough to prepare a regular dinner. Strong "neurogenetic executive failure" is a common trait. It's nowhere near as black and white as the article wants to make it out to be.
Plus, lots of neurodivergent people are acutely unaware of their own shortcomings and blame everything on those awful neurotypicals.
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#8What are examples of companies with neurodivergent leadership?
Good joke. I asked a smiliar question and also why the disability wage gap wasn't included in my company's DEI report while the gender wage gap and leadership representation was. No real answers of course...
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#9What are examples of companies with neurodivergent leadership?
Lots of psychopaths and narcissists in C suites all over. They mask pretty well though.
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#10> There was a particular button on the user interface that bugged him. It bugged him because it was a slightly different shade of green in the screenshots than it was in the staging environment. The team looked into it, and sure enough, we had tested a slightly older version of the software, not the exact version we nearly shipped to the customer. He saw and noticed the button but what would have been deployed would have had multiple bugs in the code that weren’t visible and passing because the tests were on the old version too. That’s bottom-up thinking.
No, that's spotting a problem. Like, come on.