The nature of brain development work—and arguably any challenging learning endeavor—is that you’ll do a lot of repetition and deliberate practice. Occasionally you’ll see progress rapidly; most times, it will come very slowly. Inevitably plateaus happen. But sometimes, epiphanies happen as well.

Last summer I was super excited to give a talk at QCon New York, a fantastic international software conference. At QCon they give some great in-depth talks about everything tech related, ranging from web development to programming architecture, scaling, management and so on. Last summer…

Before I knew I had ADHD, there were a great many things that frustrated me, and I had no idea why. Things that would happen again and again – like making someone mad at me, and not knowing why. Or walking into the kitchen and…