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ADHD and managing your professional reputation
Paul Graham's essay titled "Good and Bad Procrastination" argues that procrastination can be virtuous when it means putting off small tasks to work on more important ones.
The last category, he argues, is actually good procrastination - the kind practiced by "absent-minded professors" who forget to eat while solving important problems. For those of us with ADHD (or ADHD-like traits), the challenge isn't choosing the important over the urgent - our brains naturally gravitate toward novel, high-upside activities. These are what I call "stupidity tax" - the price you pay for operating in a way that prioritizes cognitive bandwidth for important work over administrative optimization.
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