[manzanarama]

I feel like I am at odds with the scheduling one so much. If I time box all these little things, I get so distracted and I hate switching. I would rather go all in on something for a few days and ignore everything else, then circle back around and clean up the damage. I feel like this leverages the hyperfocus aspect of ADHD some might have.

[TimTheTinker]

Agreed. I feel like I have 3 or more hyperfocus modes. At the furthest end of the scale, I can get into a multi-week (or month) obsessive hyperfocus on some topic. This is where I really shine at work and can develop whole componets, libraries, etc. in a very short period of time. Maybe that turns me into a "10x developer" in the negative sense. But without leveraging hyperfocus, I don't think I'd ever have made it beyond my first position.

[sailorganymede]

I schedule things. I put nice long stretches of time (we are talking about 4-6 hours about) and it’s pretty much ONLY time I ever get anything done. I need long periods of time cause the start is all about building focus but not forcing it so YMMV. I think experimentation is super helpful.

[glimmung]

Agreed. I have to schedule the "big" stuff, but for the rest the best I can do is work productively, following the connections between things.

I'll have a day doing the tasks using one sort of tech, and another doing something else - a python day, a sysadmin day, a writing day. I can't tell when a thing will get done, but by working this way as long as it's on a list I know I'll get to it. If I try to schedule it, my productivity plummets.