more software, delivered faster, narrower focus.

this is a great line. very well put

oh and thanks for headline complement

ok 3 mins! doing too many things at once. hence the tool!

we are back!

argh i broke it fixing something. 2mins...

we are back. pls retry

I tried reading but it felt bad because of the animated particles.

Yep green and this is common “founder ADHD” thing. I just worry about the day today coping.

Honestly man I’ve just come to accept that I’ll be a little unfocused and wired, I’ve learnt there’s not much I can do about it.

We really need novelty so you’ll excel in environments that can offer that (travel, anything fast paced, transport roles like trucking etc)

Embrace the chaos, don’t fight it

I've taken it a step further and just operate on the notion that we weren't really meant to be "office drones". This lifestyle is new for humans.

We used to need people that were aware of their surroundings and able to create novel solutions to environmental challenges.

I leverage that as much as I can. Sometimes that means my "breaks" are actually rollerblading in the park while listening to music and weaving (very politely) between people.

Sometimes that means I workout and pretend I'm hunting or traversing some sort of chasm/river/etc.

It helps reduce the "death stench" that routine, monotonous work seems to give off.

My idea is document everything. Every idea. All thoughts. Links. Ides I have. Then thoughtfully come back to them.

My ideal is document everything. Every idea. All thoughts. Links. Ides I have. Then thoughtfully come back to them.

This came up on HN recently. I don’t have the link.

What is “late developing adhd” bar the obvious?

I don't know much about it other than it's apparently just ADHD that doesn't manifest until adulthood.

Literally just a text file? This is interesting to me. So many task app choices. But a bit of mark down nd notepad I think is a thing?

I have a few text files open at any one time. One is for a diary I keep, which changes for each month, so for example at the moment I have '2026 01.txt' open. I have a general to-do file and a tech todo file, and then notes.txt. When my notex.txt grows too long, which I define as having to scroll at all, I start to break it up.

When I break it up, I personally use latex files. I know everyone loves markdown, but I'm not a fan of Obsidian (closed source and electron, ugh), so I fell in love with TexStudio.

I have keybindings for simple macros to insert sections and subsections that I can quickly name, and these display in the navigation tree very well. TexStudio also allows multiple tex files open at once with a tabbedinterface, and allows saving sessions, so I can open one file to open all my, say, 'ai app ideas' notes. I've found this to work better for myself than any other available app or solution.

Eventually, I'd like to release a fork which would mainly be trimming stuff out rather than really adding anything in, but it's far from a priority for me at the moment.

I have so many text files (technically wikis and GDocs text docs, but I'm not doing more than lines of text). I was talking to a coworker today about our graveyard of pen and paper notebooks, todo apps, reminder thingies, post-its..

I need two things: ubiquity, so that I can add ideas, todos, etc. wherever I am; and exaggerated simplicity so that I don't end up turning the note solution into its own project that's abandoned or exchanged in a year.

Force yourself to use the same paper journal you carry around. Keep writing whatever comes in your mind, literally everything. Re-read the last day at day's end. Mitigation tecnique to empty your brain, leaving trails.

My eternal issue with paper is that it's not always physically on me. A phone, however, is.

GDocs/a wiki have actually worked well, though I don't do the re-reading. Just crapping it out into a known place works pretty well.

I use TaskPaper. It's essentially markdown lists with a few bells and whistles for managing items.