This entire thing is so anecdotal and from-personal-experience, it's not remotely interesting in its attempts to generalize.

I'm seriously considering getting one.

It's not at all tenable for other externalities to bring underlying mental illnesses to the forefront, nope, not at all.

What lazy thinking.

Chalking it up to dopamine is a gross simplification.

Adderal, for example, stimulates the release / reduces the re-uptake of dopamine, norepinephrine, epinephrine, serotonin, histamine, and CART peptides.

Autism spectrum, schizophrenia, depression, and parkinson's disease are other well known disorders classified as an executive dysfunction.

ODD ("a pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vindictiveness lasting at least six months") is not at all the same thing.

It doesn't mean that what was said was the actual reason, which happens to often. Not enough follow-up happens, and the original trigger for the call-for-help goes unaddressed.

Insurance covers on average two sessions of therapy annually.

Therapy is only effective over long periods (years) of regular (weekly/biweekly) sessions.

It's a fucking travesty.

I spend close to $500 per month, after insurance, for my mental healthcare. This is a therapist and a psychiatrist.

None of this is covered by my insurance.

I pay what I can with an FSA but it's extraordinarily exhausting.

I'm glad that I was able to get appropriate treatment (15 years later) but how I was treated as a teenager in a mental health facility was atrocious. Misdiagnosis, over medication, and only keeping patients as long as their insurance held out was par for the course.

The Project Manager was completely on point with gathering information from stakeholders and direction from executives. The scrum master was a perfect neutral voice who really did an amazing job mediating. Our team was full of smart, capable, focused multidisciplinary engineers. It was absolutely beautiful.

I've also never ever seen it again. I've been trying to figure out what was different about that org than everywhere else. Because I've always worked with smart, social SWEs.

I think the problems arising from cargo cult agile are more fundamental than the methodology. In order for agile to work well for SWEs, the organization's infrastructure and expectations must be a fit. There are key things that I saw at the place where it worked and were missing everywhere else.

* Strong product ownership. The PM is the captain of the ship. They must interface with the execs, with the customers, with the technologists, with the customer service. They must synthesize the stories and effectively outline clear exit criteria for them. And they must accept input from engineering to prioritize tasks that must be done but do not necessarily directly provide customer value. But the buck stops with them. Engineering should not be subject to department infighting for prioritization of pet features. The direction must be clear, or you're foundering.

* A neutral voice in the planning meetings to keep things on track and ensure everyone who has a question / input is heard.

* Demo days. It's so important for the morale of everyone - on the team and off - for the exposition of the completed work for a given sprint.

* Respectful retrospection.

* Trust and verification. Micro management is toxic. The only time other than sprint planning that the PM should be involved with the daily work of engineers is when a story requirement needs clarification.

And modifying the scope of an in progress sprint should be relegated _only_ to emergencies. This cannot happen if there are _always_ emergencies, though. Which is why it's important for a PM to understand and allocate time for maintenance / infrastructure improvement.

It's some of the most subversively existential SF I've ever read.

Unless you're in SF, y'all forced all the artists out so there aren't any local ones anymore.

If you really want solid male birth control with no side effects, bank your gametes for $50/mo and get your vas deferens snipped.

Female birth control may not cause permanent lack of fertility, but it can cause cancer. Breast cancer. Cervical cancer. Liver cancer.