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I had a mate who's still finding their feet with English ask me last week what I meant by something I'd said. Can't even remember the sentence now. Something throwaway. But watching them try to parse it, then watching myself try to explain it, was the thing that stuck with me. Because the words weren't the problem. The words were fine. What they were missing was everything around the words. Who I…
Your brain is terrible at storage. It's brilliant at connections, patterns, creativity, ideas in the shower at 2am. But ask it to reliably hold onto that article you read three weeks ago, or that insight from a meeting you definitely meant to write down? Forget it. For me it's especially acute. I have ADHD, and before and after my diagnosis I knew the only way I'd remember most things is to write…
I wrote this while working in Australia's fastest growing startup, and I shared it to the product and engineering teams. We had been adding more and more defined roles and many of them wanted to implement processes to our workflow, and I was starting to feel like every time someone was trying to implement a new process, they were not accounting for the context switching and cognitive load or…