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Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems (2025)

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Re: Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems (2025)

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Post by accidentallfact »

It doesn't talk about neurodivergent people, but about non-brain damaged people, whose brains can still do dimensionality reduction, which allows them to deal with problems efficiently.

The so called neurotypical people are people brain damaged from something, who slowly took over the society over the 20th century. Without dimensionality reduction, virtually everything they encounter is an overwhelming, highly dimemsional problem so they can't deal with anything, except for a narrow set of problems they specifically trained to deal with.

Re: Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems (2025)

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Post by lukan »

jgilias wrote: post #9
ksimukka wrote: post #6

What are examples of companies with neurodivergent leadership?

Lots of psychopaths and narcissists in C suites all over. They mask pretty well though.

That .. is not what is meant here. Neurodivergent people surely can also be narcisstic psychopaths, but it is not really related as far as I know.

Re: Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems (2025)

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Post by vaidhy »

EPWN3D wrote: post #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…

I guess you have not been to LinkedIn in a while :)

The fact he did not even spot the actual problem is worrying. Did someone know that the button color was changed in the new version of the software?

Re: Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems (2025)

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Post by thierryzoller »

accidentallfact wrote: post #11

It doesn't talk about neuro divergent people, but about non-brain damaged people, whose brains can still do dimensionality reduction, which allows them to deal with problems efficiently. The so called neuro typical people are people brain damaged from something, who slowly took over the society over the 20th century. Without dimensionality reduction, virtually everything they encounter is an overwhelming, highly dime…

This checks out

Re: Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems (2025)

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Post by vaidhy »

lukan wrote: post #13
jgilias wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lots of psychopaths and narcissists in C suites all over. They mask pretty well though.

That .. is not what is meant here. Neurodivergent people surely can also be narcisstic psychopaths, but it is not really related as far as I know.

Neurodivergent is not just one thing.

Are there people on the autism spectrum at leadership level? - Steve Jobs was considered to be one even though he was not formally diagnosed as one.

Are there people on ADD/ADHD spectrum at leadership levels - yes, I know of a few..

Are there people with sociopathic tendencies at leadership level - You can answer this one :)

Re: Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems (2025)

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Post by gorgabal »

hooverd wrote: post #7
daneel_w wrote: post #3

I'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.

In my experience there are either acutely unaware or too aware which then leads to insecurity and self-sabotaging behavior.

Speaking from my own neurodivergent experience: I tend to be a bit slower and get distracted easily, but when circumstances are optimal (silent office, clear expectations, etc) I can function on about the same level as my neurotypical peers.

While I don't 'blame' neurotypicals, I do recognize that most office environments are not that accessible for me and other neurodivergent people.

Re: Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems (2025)

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Post by nathan_compton »

accidentallfact wrote: post #11

It doesn't talk about neuro divergent people, but about non-brain damaged people, whose brains can still do dimensionality reduction, which allows them to deal with problems efficiently. The so called neuro typical people are people brain damaged from something, who slowly took over the society over the 20th century. Without dimensionality reduction, virtually everything they encounter is an overwhelming, highly dime…

What?
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