Software engineer from #Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Opinions are my own, not those of my spouse, employer, child, or pets. In fact there are few areas in which we agree.
Interested in #FOSS and #Linux, as well as federated social nonsense like the #Fediverse and #XMPP and #Matrix
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44% complete! ssweeny has read 11 of 25 books.
Declare (2000) is a supernatural spy novel by American author Tim Powers. The novel presents a secret history of the …
Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oats crops, Mary goes to …
Examines the ways that embracing socially awkward situations, even when they lead to embarrassment and self-consciousness, also provide the opportunity …
After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an …
Got this out again from the library. Maybe this time I'll actually finish it.
Examines the ways that embracing socially awkward situations, even when they lead to embarrassment and self-consciousness, also provide the opportunity …
@chuck@linuxlab.sh yeah I like a lot of the philosophy this guy presents. It's about not hoping for things to get better but to become the change you want to see, etc.
His other book "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck" is also quite good.
"In 1994, Driven to Distraction sparked a revolution in our understanding of attention deficit disorder. …
A former coworker of mine mentioned that he'd recently been diagnosed with ADHD and his therapist had recommended this book to him.
Very on-brand, the author recommends early on that you skip around to different sections of the book depending on what seems relevant to you.
I thought the early sections about the history of ADHD as a diagnosis and the various elements that may or may not manifest with it were fascinating. I don't have a diagnosis but I definitely recognized traits that I share from these sections.
Later on the topics get more specialized (dealing with your own ADHD, dealing with a child with it, etc.) and I was almost grateful to have "permission" to skip around at that point. Most of these later sections were not super relevant to me but I can definitely see them being a useful resource for folks in the relevant situations.
Definitely …
A former coworker of mine mentioned that he'd recently been diagnosed with ADHD and his therapist had recommended this book to him.
Very on-brand, the author recommends early on that you skip around to different sections of the book depending on what seems relevant to you.
I thought the early sections about the history of ADHD as a diagnosis and the various elements that may or may not manifest with it were fascinating. I don't have a diagnosis but I definitely recognized traits that I share from these sections.
Later on the topics get more specialized (dealing with your own ADHD, dealing with a child with it, etc.) and I was almost grateful to have "permission" to skip around at that point. Most of these later sections were not super relevant to me but I can definitely see them being a useful resource for folks in the relevant situations.
Definitely a good primer for anyone curious about ADHD and wanting to know more before maybe getting a diagnosis.
‘The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth’ Richard Wilkinson
No-one deserves to …
"In 1994, Driven to Distraction sparked a revolution in our understanding of attention deficit disorder. Now a second revolution is …
