The ADHD engineer frustrated by every source of slowness might be your best optimizer
zack_overflow · x · 2026-10-08
zackoverflow quips that every team just needs one ADHD person who gets frustrated by every source of slowness and optimizes everything to be faster — a common, counterintuitive observation in engineering culture that hypersensitivity to inefficiency can be a productivity superpower.
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