[brimble]

I'm reminded of Scott Alexanders musing re: whether someone "has ADD" if they have trouble focusing on things that are simply boring as fuck, like looking at spreadsheets (or code...) all day every day, week, after week, after week.

But then if all their peers are in fact outperforming them, because they're already all self-medicating for ADD symptoms, or have a prescription for ADD meds, so they can focus on something that most ordinary people would have trouble focusing on... what then?

What's normal in a work environment that's fundamentally and extremely not normal?

[jeffreyrogers]

Given enough time abnormal becomes normal and everyone who couldn't fit in is selected out. Several thousand years ago agricultural societies were abnormal, but they allowed high population densities and were better at war so they dominated (except on the steppe).

When Henry Ford popularized the assembly line he had extremely high employee turnover. People didn't like working that way.

[rhizome]

There will always be performance-enhancing drugs.

[makeworld]

Got a link to that post?

[cipheredStones]

Not the GP, but it's https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-mo...

[dbetteridge]

The spice is life...