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Aug 29, 2022

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Hello sluggies,

I’m still lagging behind calendar time, so this is last week’s round-up plus the August learning list rolled into one. I’m visiting family in swampburbia (what I like to call SWFL) so there will be a bit less analysis going on here than usual, as my brain is currently fried by an exhausting combination of sun and socializing. Hot take factory broke. No thoughts, head empty. But I do have a few interesting things for you.

FIRST: E05 of D-land is out now and I am very proud of it!! We look at an archetype I’m calling the ADHD Boss — influencers who consider their ADHD an entrepreneurial superpower and have built careers off preaching about it on TikTok. It’s bootstrap logic, mental health edition!

Disorderland

E05: How To Be An ADHD Boss

Listen now (74 min) | Are you eating enough blueberries to optimize your dopamine? Did you make sure to take a timed cold shower this morning after your Peloton workout to increase your neurochemical satisfaction by 500%?? Are you manifesting hard enough???? FIND OUT TODAY! We’re taking a dive into the world of ADHD Boss content on TikTok, a pseudoscientific iteration of som…

3 years ago · Jesse Meadows and Ayesha Khan, Ph.D.

Here are some more things, in no particular order, which I have been reading/watching/listening to lately, plus some recent psych-related stuff:

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