People with #adhd have three types of workday:
* Get absolutely nothing done
* Get 4 hours of work done at a random point in time
* Get 40 hours of work done in 4 hours
All types are sprinkled with work unrelated sidequests
@jascha I can't but agree 🤔
Apr 22, 2026, 1:06 PM@jascha Senpai noticed me 😊
@jascha you forgot "get 8 hours of work done in 30 minutes before work actually starts, and then feel bad about doing nothing the rest of the day"
@jascha can we pick which ones?
Also no.
@jascha TIL I might have ADHD
@shrimpney or just an executive dysfunction which can originate from many different things
@jascha As someone with #adhd I'd like to add to this that this is all while being unmedicated. When medicated it's:
* getting the wrong thing done.
* getting nothing done because people kept interrupting you (probably same for everyone I suppose)
* get 4h of work done in 4h but not at the desired start time.
@agowa338 I am medicated and I have those days 70% if the time so as always: medication helps but does not necessarily solve all issuesy
🔘 I'm in this toot and I don't like it.
@clickhere I am not sorry 😌
@jascha Fair - you're just sayin it as it is. 🫡
Apr 22, 2026, 2:00 PM@jascha fuck are you observing me right now or what
@jascha I hate it so much
Apr 22, 2026, 2:10 PM@jascha I feel called out, and I don't even have a (self)diagnosis, heh
@anyia executive dysfunction can originate from many things so you might have something else 🤷♂️
@jascha my daughter in a nutshell. And after the third on that list she does #1 I think she's got a good work/sleep balance, myself.
Apr 22, 2026, 2:43 PM@jascha I'm in this post, and I don't like it.
Apr 22, 2026, 3:06 PM@jascha looking forward to the second and third ones showing up sometime
Apr 22, 2026, 3:06 PM
@jascha I thought doxing was frowned upon here 🥲
@jascha I don't like that you're spying on my home office. That's not cool.
Apr 22, 2026, 4:24 PM@jascha also ITT: Get the wrong shit done and delay everything else
Apr 22, 2026, 4:33 PMTime estimates with ADHD:
- Figure out how long it would take you on a good day when you can lock in
- Double the number
- Move the unit up by one
So:
- For a 2 hour task, estimate 4 days
- For a 3 day task, estimate 6 weeks
@jascha Everybody knows that the sidequests *might* seem irrelevant, but if you don't do them you'll be missing something really important and useful further on in the main quest.
@jascha Feel like the dice are weighted differently every day, too.
@jascha Now with work mandating the use of AI, it's worse for me. I will type out a prompt, and while I'm waiting for it to finish, I'll go on a non-work-related sidequest that has fifty steps. Next thing I know, its two hours later and the agent finished it works an hour and a half ago
@jascha @gothpanda I feel incredibly seen
@jascha Me trying to convince my team lead that it would help a lot if i could have at least 4h per day where no one is allowed to call... (found a way to provoke a flow state. It's wonderful. So much work getting done while not realising time exists... until someone calls)
Some days it it wasn't for the hyperfocus I'd have no focus at all.
@jascha
Thanks to medication I can do #3 more often 🙏
#2 is typically deadline-induced
#1 is nowadays mostly a consequence of #3 (done everything interesting already)
@jascha I'm in this picture, and I still don't know whether I like it or not.
@jascha super fun when you've on a 1-week assignment and only have type 1 and 2 days 🫠
Apr 23, 2026, 7:40 AMi love the second one
Apr 23, 2026, 7:44 AM@jascha@ohai.social seems pretty normal to me, every truly productive person or game changing team member I've worked with does this ngl
there are some people which just consistently do a little bit of work every day, and those people are great too, projects don't really work without those people... but someone with chaotic ADHD energy doing nothing for a week and suddenly rewriting an entire component because "everything is better this way" is how a lot of game changing software gets made tbh
@jascha sometimes I even set myself back by trying to redo something I've already done, so I wind up getting less than nothing done
@jascha I've noticed it changes with age: currently it is more "nothing done" and never "40 hours in 4" anymore... 😏