So many unfinished projects

I bet when you are up against a deadline you come up with some pretty impressive stuff though... I do my best work with the consequences gun to my head

!! You completed the quote. It is seldom completed, and then it sounds like a bad thing (a jack of all trades is a master of none). But you. You did right by us all lol

So much this

I really like being a generalist, it's really helpful for not just me but for helping others as well

I also have some extremely useless skills, like the corckscrew.

I'm great at some stuff, but it's useless stuff. I'm awful at talking, so even when I'm good at something, I look stupid when I try to explain it

As a professional evolutionary psychologist (and definitely not someone who just read this on the internet somewhere and can't find a source), ADHD was probably beneficial tens to hundreds of thousands of years ago. The mf who got bored of living in a village for 20 years and decided to walk hundreds of miles until they found a really cool hill is the mf founding new villages and moving into Europe, and Asia, and the Americas, and Australia

Absolutely. I have found that going hard into my non-tech hobbies is really good for me. Subjects that I veered away from in school (e.g., chemistry) can become big hyper-focus-worthy aspects of my hobbies (e.g., the nitrogen cycle and all the organic chemistry that goes into oxidation of the organics in my koi pond).

And some other interests of mine, like having a part time photography business for the past decade, allow me to learn more STEM shit (optics) as well as have an artistic and creative outlet. And even today that has morphed into video editing as an activity with my son.

It's even true when I limit the context to my career. I am a software engineer and have loved programming since the "manually number every line" days of BASIC on Apple II school computers in the '90s. But my education and career have run the gamut from semiconductor design and physics (and the quantum quantum quantum!) to computer engineering and logic/assembly, to general electronics, to manufacturing & testing & quality assurance of electronics, to straight-up business administration, to UNIX/Linux, and now to writing software for embedded Linux systems that use in-house electronics.

At work the cross disciplinary skills help not just for being on a cross-functional design team, but for figuring out a complicated system that was half completed several years ago by people who no longer work there.

They say that variety is the spice of life, but it's even better if you are neurospicy yourself.

This reminds me of when I went to a talk by Jacob Geller and one guy asked how he makes so many connections to non-video game ideas and the dude just said because you gotta do and read other things. Great point but lol!

Oftentimes better than a master of one.

baiter of hooks

don't eat the crab dip

This also confused me. Also though, a lot of memes confuse me, specifically the ones that say "me when..." Because the person's expression often is kind of mixed and unclear to me. Afaik I'm not autistic.

The instructor I have teaching at this exact moment was a red seal chef, he’s now a red seal welder, teaching first year apprentices metalwork. Sometimes you just need a change.

Di Vinci also spent numerous years studying arcana and ''accomplishing'' nothing, he died with the Mona Lisa and John The Baptist paintings at the foot of his bed. From analysis we knew he spend decades painting them, there's no element of them that appears to me unintended, and he accomplished an optical illusion only understood very recently, in painting in tone alone shows her smiling, the color shows her flat faced. He captured a sense of a smile that's only about to happen, because he managed to understand that grey scale and color are processed differently in the mind. He figured out so many strange little things that he incorporates into his work, but he also started 100s of projects he lost interest in, and it's not clear if he even considered his finished work complete, it's arguable according to people far more educated than me.