| > So... you're basically saying it works? Working under pressure isn't a viable therapy, IMO. In my experience, it is a path to burn out and diminishing returns. > Got any support for that? Anecdotally, ~25 years of eating them, but there is plenty of evidence that prolonged use of amphetamine causes structural neuronal changes, even at therapeutic doses. Here is one article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38665308/ > you look at the papers about externalising motivation/triggers What papers? What do they say? Also, fear (an external motivator) is a great way to release catecholamines for positive outcomes in ADHD, but it is also a great way to increase general stress, which has many other outcomes (free cortisol changes, etc). |
Except that pair programming doesn’t make you work under pressure. I extensively use this technique for body doubling as much as I can. It motivates me to start the task and I also love the exchange : you can learn things, teach things, be stuck together, find solutions together, swear together, laugh, agree on how horrible is this thing you must fix …
In fact it’s what I’d call real teamwork. I never felt it like pressure and it gives me a lot of energy.
Incidentally, I think the only friends I made at work (the real friends you invite at home even when you don’t work at the same place anymore) were through frequent pair programming sessions. I think there is something about knowing how the other person thinks that helps bonding together.