Creator of Hyper Focus, the to-do app for people with ADHD.
Durham, NC
- Tweets 820
- Following 604
- Followers 752
- Likes 296
If you could hold only one stock (not an index fund or collection of stocks) for the next 10 years - what would it be?
21
I just found 10 euros on the street.
I’m going to pay it forward - reply to this message and I’ll paste a code to use at any MbWay ATM in Portugal for the first person who is quick enough to go to one.
44
‘People can maintain a belief, however absurd, if surrounded by a group of like-minded thinkers’- Daniel Kahneman
26
More often than not, beliefs are fuelled by incentives which validate the decision or behaviour, subconsciously encouraging more of the same….
1
22
As Charlie Dawson says, for all the talk of how to create a great culture in an organisation, behaviours often come down to just two things: what you get praised for, and what you get told off for:
cxstories.substack.com/p/the…
1
19
How much should we accommodate feelings based on unfounded fears?
Airborne peanut allergens aren't really a thing, yet people still ask you not to eat peanuts on planes. Some people believe phone radiation makes them ill, though there's no evidence it does.
Should you put away your peanuts or your phone for them? Is it courtesy, or feeding irrational fears
18
Paris vs Lisbon:
I went to Paris (and Reims for the Champagne Half Marathon) expecting stuffy, snobby Parisians. I was wrong.
What stood out vs Lisbon/Cascais:
+Bakeries, butchers and greengrocers treat their shop windows like works of art.
+Far more cyclists.
+Much less graffiti and dog poo (my two biggest gripes about living in Portugal).
+No tangle of wires on every building.
+English was better than I expected, though Lisbon still wins.
+Downside: lots of shops shut at the weekend and slow to open on Monday.
Paris, I owe you an apology.
81
ADHD might be partly a body clock problem.
A new paper in Frontiers in Psychiatry argues that for many of us, ADHD is in part a circadian rhythm disorder.
1
42
In adults with ADHD, melatonin (your body's "time for bed" signal) kicks in about 90 minutes later than in adults without it.
At 11pm, your brain may genuinely think it's 9:30.
1
13
In one trial, low-dose melatonin moved it 88 minutes earlier and cut ADHD symptoms by 14%.
Two weeks of bright morning light moved it about 30 minutes.
Paper: frontiersin.org/journals/psy…
6
British school teach us to say:
1Please
2Thank you
3You're welcome
In the US I get "mhm", "sure" or "no problem" instead.
Is "you're welcome" not a thing over there?
24
I've realised my brain doesn't really do time in hours or days.
There are only two times:
(1) Now
(2) Not Now.
1
31
It's why I can do a week's work in one hyper focused evening, but can't start a simple task when there's no pressure.
1
5
Today is the day of St Francis - the patron saint of animals.
Here in Cascais, the local church blesses any animals that come along to mass, so we popped in on our morning walk:
1
2
66