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(Disclaimer that basically all of ADHD is contentious and I don’t want to argue but just explain)

Hyperfocus is a symptom of ADHD. This can be someone who spends 14 hours in one go fixing a bug. Downsides are that it’s generally not sustainable, and it’s just as likely to be the wrong thing as the right thing. I know a ton more about air cooled engines but didn’t do my taxes on time kinda thing.




"I spent the week creating a typescript interpreter that verifies the type safety of our bash scripts using typescripts string template capabilities"




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