Think Divergent

Divergent thinking is central to creativity. Unfortunately, it's under-appreciated in today's society where success is defined using convergent thinking metrics. Looking at how divergent thinking process works, it's not difficult to see why. #neurodiversesquad #teamADHD #ADHD

@garrytan It's great to produce generational companies. How can we apply YC's learnings to help the not so eminent people of our generations build less profitable and mostly transient companies that support their local communities?

Come see inside the most powerful startup community in the world. Learn how we help people go fast. YC one of the most reliable places to learn how to find product-market-fit. My debut on the YC channel here 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=EiRnSj…

@garrytan Yeah we desperately need a new and more human friendly way for creative minds to change the world for better.

One startup founder’s take on working at Google: “Like mice, they are trapped in a maze of approvals, launch processes, legal reviews, performance reviews, exec reviews, documents, meetings, bug reports, triage, OKRs, H1 plans followed by H2 plans, all-hands summits, and inevitable reorgs. The mice are regularly fed their “cheese” (promotions, bonuses, fancy food, fancier perks) and despite many wanting to experience personal satisfaction and impact from their work, the system trains them to quell these inappropriate desires and learn what it actually means to be “Googley” — just don’t rock the boat. As Deepak Malhotra put it in his excellent business fable, at some point the problem is no longer that the mouse is in a maze. The problem is that “the maze is in the mouse.’” @pravse/the-maze-is-in-the-mouse-980c57cfd61a" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@pravse/the-ma…

"Done" is a special case of "good enough". How much of what do you every day actually needs to be "Done"?

@HowtoADHD Create a more human friendly world.

If those of us who are #Neurodivergent advocates are all essentially working toward the same goal... What is that goal? (I have my opinions, but I'd love to hear yours!)

@JoshSchorle @codywanner @CatieOsaurus Yep, entirely free, available and syncs across all your devices, supported by donations from your fellow chaos powered human-beings😂

@think_divergent @codywanner @CatieOsaurus Is it entirely free? Cause… I might have to bookmark this…

@codywanner @CatieOsaurus Thanks for the mention! Here's the app for anyone interested! Text only. Hit one button and go! thinkdivergent.com/collide

@CatieOsaurus ok hear me out -- just got introduced to a free app called @think_divergent -- all it does is matches you with a person, you tell each other what you are gonna focus on on the next 30 mins, and then you have a timer running to get it done.. it's body doubling but very low contact

@noelleflamingo Yeah the time is now for us to figure out how to stop that 🙂

i’m convinced the proliferation of beige has only begun.

@briannekimmel Or just how many times per week do you eat?😂

Every time a VC says they work like a founder, I fight the urge to say “ok, then how many times per week do you eat Chipotle?”

@danidonovan ❤️❤️❤️

the ADHD urge to emotionally implode the second someone starts acting exasperated with you

@basketnoise @adhdjesse Body doubling is having someone else in the room while you're doing the thing or working at the same time as someone else (even if it's on different things). I use this tool from Think Divergent & it helps a lot. thinkdivergent.com/body-double

@noelleflamingo @JP_Slessor @AdultingADHD Lol I wait till the last minute to avoid that file name

@JP_Slessor @AdultingADHD it’s a lifestyle.

Are you the ADHDer that packs for a trip a few days in advance or the ADHDer that leaves packing up until the day before for the trip?

@kefimochi lol we all can use one.

@kefimochi Maybe you could use minimalistic task manager optimized for keeping track of stuff you want to do?

@garrytan @Chris_Deutsch Regulatory capture at its finest?

@Chris_Deutsch Possibly good intentions mixed with a massive grift to charge school districts $5000 per hour for her workshops

Whose K-12 research made it so public middle school children in SF cannot take Algebra anymore? Jo Boaler’s grift: Peddling watering down math under banners like"growth mindsets," and "low-floor high-ceiling.” A “math influencer” is blocking kids access to basic math

@ness_labs Delegate can be converted to 2 dos: delegate and check in. This means your task management system should only need to support 2 functions Do or Decide.

The Eisenhower matrix is a decision-making method based on the importance and urgency of what’s on your to-do list. It is a power decision-making framework created by the 34th US President, Dwight Eisenhower. Learn more 👇 nesslabs.com/eisenhower-mat…

HIGHLY recommend @think_divergent for my #ADHD squad! 😊🙌🏽🧡

You are not alone!

@garrytan Perhaps intuitions are generated by more primitive parts of the brain on with high level & lower dimensional abstractions of the world?

Interesting: How game recognizes game in business/startups 👇

@alexisohanian @paulg A decade or two into the future, the need to measure how someone "learned the curriculum" might be questionable to begin with. What they know would matter a lot less than the rate they can solve real world problems with real time access to infinite amount of knowledge and data.

@paulg AI generated tests custom to every kid based on the curriculum they learned (and ideally also how the performed in the past so you can see the speed/size of change?). Smarter people than me will do it.

My parents couldn't help me with my math homework after, like, elementary school? And this is the kind of advice I wish I'd gotten. Standardized tests definitely aren't a panacea. The next evolution that scales more accurate aptitude testing can't come soon enough.

@ADHDJobs It can go both ways, when most companies optimize for deterministic mediocrity, they leave the high risk high reward opportunities for us. The challenge is often finding funding sources with the risk appetite to act on these opportunities.

I read yesterday on a post that the 2 top hiring buzzwords were: ‘Stability and Reliability’ This feels so backwards… Does this hinder ADHD’ers and ND talent being able to secure projects and positions? #jobsearch #hiring #Neurodiversity linkedin.com/posts/kimallin…