Adult ADD Strengths

Update. The original poster took it down. My friend and techie communicator extraordinare Robert Sanzalone of Pacific IT gave me a heads up, here’s the new link.

Hilarious video on what might happen if Microsoft designed the Ipod box

via Scoble who has a sense of humour.Robert’s comments?

It hurts. Ouch.

How do you improve yourself? 1) Be honest with yourself about what you do. 2) Repeat.

Honesty hurts. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Chris Pirillo was here in Vancouver with Ponzi recently to speak at the Northern Voice blogging conference. He also did the Chris Pirillo show at the Take 5 Coffee shop downtown the night before Moose Camp. Chris talks with Vancouver blogger Will Pate, Scott Beale from Laughing Squid and Identity Woman, and myself.

Chris needs no introduction to those of you involved in the high tech world. For the rest here’s a line from his bio

The geek among geeks: technologist, television host, magazine columnist, blogger, author, and entrepreneur.

He’s the #1 search for Chris on the internet. He runs the Gnomedex conference, the Lockergnome content network, a podcast show, and his own blog and more.

ADD Resources is having a 2 day conference in Seattle (Tukwilia a suburb of Seattle) March 4th and 5th.

It’s focused on parents, young adults ages 15-25 and ADHDprofessionals.

ADHD professionals can earn CME credits

Featured presenters are Peter S. Jensen, M.D., researcher and clinician, and author of Making the System Work for Your Child with ADHD and Director of the Center for the Advancement of Children’s Mental Health at the Columbia University, and Chris Zeigler-Dendy, M.S., author of Teenagers with ADD: a Parents’ Guide, and Teaching Teens with ADD and ADHD.

There are several breakout sessions. ADD Resources is a non profit organization with a large ADD resource website.

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity is a book by David Allen on the topic of productivity that is a big hit in the blogosphere and there are several blogs that have been inspired by GTD. I particularly like his idea that we shouldn’t be relying on our memories to remember to do items and if we have a system to keep track of all the loose bits of data we have to do AND WE REVIEW IT REGULARLY, it frees up psychic space in our brain that we’d otherwise use to keep reminding us to do things (usually at times when we can’t). He also has a good visual matrix to process incoming information into logical areas. While their are core principals to the process, there’s a lot of room in flexibility in actually implementing it.

In our haste to shout about and fight about our differences, we forget our commonalities

From 13GB

Fast and Reliable, a mindblowingly inspiring short movie. A must see. via Videobomb a cool site that rates videos similar to my new favorite site Digg

Dexter is a bike courier in New York that lost one leg riding his bike after risking his life to save a child on the street from being hit by a truck. He now rides his bike with a pair of crutches strapped on the bike and started his own courier company where he still rides. He gets a lot of attention, and he loves his job. Here’s one of his memorable lines.

UPDATE: Part 2 with the clinical evidence of ADD as a real condition is here

Does ADD/ADHD Really Exist?

I’ve had a great response from my Top 10 Advantages of ADD in a High Tech Career blog post, 30,000 plus unique hits so far, 78 comments so far and lots of links and comments on many of those sites that blogged it. Still trying to digest it all. Thanks to everyone that Digged it, Del.icio.us’d it and blogged it.

Most of the responses on my blog and other blogs were very positive, there were a few same old stale unoriginal ADD jokes, and a smaller number of ones claiming ADD doesn’t exist ones, usually rudely and self righteously. One comment on my blog said “I need scientific facts.”

I Talked to Dave Sifrey, CEO of Technorati at the Moose Camp about my problem getting my blog indexed properly in Technorati. In about 3 minutes the problem was fixed. So the moral of the story is if you have a problem talk to the CEO, they more likely to be biased towards action than their subordinates.

Unfortunately I missed the morning because I had to deal with some of the logistics of getting Digged and Del.icio.used, a task I was very happy to do. Was in a very happy mood all day, despite a lack of sleep. I’ve been blogging for a year and finally had a post that hit it big time. Have 22,000+ hits today so far and still a bit of time left to go. Once I catch up on my sleep I’ll do something to celebrate it.