There are too many shiny objects and it is killing me

I do most of this, only I write tests too :) I tend to implement a rough version first, then write some tests, then get those tests working, then iterate and refine. Any time some code does something unexpected I write tests to define what I expect it to do and then get it to do that.

But Writing Code That Does Something is absolutely the important first step!

The other thing that I found helped get over this was to stop assuming that at some point some sneering jerk of a programmer would look at my code and criticise it for not using the latest shiny, and accept that the only time anyone would look at my code is if it became a success, and if that happened I could shrug off any criticism with a "it worked didn't it?" response. In other words, stop worrying what other people might think of my tech choices.

What do you all think of this:

Https://getmadprops.com

this is a project that I started, stopped, started, stopped, started and have committed to seeing it through. Just last night I stashed a bunch of changes I was working on because, you know, they were more important than getting customers. I have to force myself to just keep shipping and iterating. Once I'm in a rut and haven't shipped in awhile, I have to do it again to get out of feature creep.

What I have found is that the reason that people that procrastinate are able to finish client gigs is because there is someone else there. If you don't have someone else, make yourself accountable to the public. Nothing will break your bad habits faster than looking like a fool to customers and/or the public.

> but there are methods to overcome this dis-ease.

No, no there are not. The ADHD brain does not produce the dopamine they need to allow the neurons to transmit information properly. Medicines address this in a way that no amount of meditation or Yoga or fru-fru dieting can.

> Just to offer an alternative view on this condition, from someone who has suffered with this for the better part of my life and finally realized how to cope with it. It requires work, yes, but all good things in life do.

I'm glad your ADHD was mild enough that coping mechanisms were enough. Never assume that this is the case for everyone, just because it's the case for you.

The difference is pretty major - for someone who does not have ADHD, the medications make them high. For someone with ADHD, it just makes the brain work the way it should in the first place. It doesn't make us hyper, it doesn't make us high, it doesn't give us boundless reserves of energy.

What it does do is let us think about things in the future in a way which impacts what we do today. It lets us connect intention to action, which is really hard without it. It lets us concentrate for more than a few moments at a time.

> get people addicted

The clinical dose for Adderal is typically in the 10-90 mg per day range; addicitive levels are around 350 mg per day. Stop spreading FUD.

If you want to know if you have ADHD, go talk to a doctor.

You don't have to have ADHD to jump around - there are plenty of other explanations floating around this thread which can help explain what's going on.

There was a short talk by Andrew Tridgell (one of the creators of Samba) about having a "junk code" directory. I'm not sure if there's a video but https://www.samba.org/ftp/tridge/talks/junkcode.pdf gives you a reasonable idea.

The value is that you can eventually give yourself a break and just write goddamn code. I have terrible terrible code in https://github.com/voltagex/junkcode but it's fine because if anything there really grabs me I'll graduate it out into its own repo.