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#473: Being a developer with ADHD

Do you feel like ADHD is holding you back? Maybe you don't personally have ADHD but you work with folks who do and you'd like to support them better. Either way, how ADHD interplays with programming and programmers is pretty fascinating. On this episode we have Chris Ferdinandi who himself has ADHD and has written a lot about it to share his journey and his advice for thriving with ADHD as a programmer or data scientist. 
 
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Links from the show 
 
Chris on Mastodon: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@cferdinandi?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank">@cferdinandi</a> 
ADHD FTW Talk Python Page: <a href="https://adhdftw.com/talk-python/?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank">adhdftw.com</a> 
Building a Second Brain: <a href="https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank">buildingasecondbrain.com</a> 
Building a Second Brain Book: <a href="https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/book?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank">buildingasecondbrain.com</a> 
White Collar Jobs are Just Meetings: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/07/white-collar-meetings-more-frequent/678941/?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank">theatlantic.com</a> 
Article with Fighting Duck-Sized Horses Agile: <a href="https://www.mensurdurakovic.com/hard-to-swallow-truths-they-wont-tell-you-about-software-engineer-job/?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank">mensurdurakovic.com</a> 
Nothing Phone: <a href="https://us.nothing.tech/pages/phone-2?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank">nothing.tech</a> 
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Todoist: <a href="https://todoist.com?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank">todoist.com</a> 
Anytype (open source Notion): <a href="https://anytype.io?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank">anytype.io</a> 
Obsidian: <a href="https://obsidian.md?featured_on=talkpython" target="_blank">obsidian.md</a> 
Watch this episode on YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A__7VFjPd9M" target="_blank">youtube.com</a> 
Episode transcripts: <a href="https://talkpython.fm/episodes/transcript/473/being-a-developer-with-adhd" target="_blank">talkpython.fm</a> 
 
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Talk Python to Me is a weekly podcast hosted by developer and entrepreneur Michael Kennedy. We dive deep into the popular packages and software developers, data scientists, and incredible hobbyists doing amazing things with Python. If you're new to Python, you'll quickly learn the ins and outs of the community by hearing from the leaders. And if you've been Pythoning for years, you'll learn about your favorite packages and the hot new ones coming out of open source.