Colleen Macklin is a game designer and a Professor in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons School of Design and author of Iterate: Ten Lessons in Design and Failure. She’s interested in how games model and reveal ideologies through systems. And, incidentally, she reports she was recently diagnosed with ADHD, which makes her doubly cool in our crowd. She joins us today to talk about games and gaming and neurodiversity.
Listen NowChris Legge is a computer tech with a love of photography, game development, and creating things. He’s here with us today to talk about his game, Soft Focuses, a journaling game aimed at simulating the experiences of living as an individual with ADHD.
Listen NowYou (yes, you), are a gamer. You might not think it, but somewhere deep inside you is a playful puzzler playing tag on the playground, making up rules for neighborhood romps, and kicking cans down the street. This week, we’re kicking off a series of conversations on games, and why rekindling that spirit of playfulness in yourself might just be key to unlocking a new perspective on your relationship with ADHD
Listen NowThe results are in! When we kicked off our job series we asked you about your jobs, your red flags, the work you do, and the way you want to do it. Today, we’re going to review those results and see what we can learn from one another about the way work works for each of us.
Listen NowThis week on the show, we’re exploring the artifice of bureaucracy and administrative structures of traditional work, and how it can be difficult to navigate with an ADHD brain, and we have the perfect guest to help us do it: board-certified psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, author, and musician, Dr. Kourosh Dini.
Listen NowWe’ve spent the last two weeks talking about red flags and deal breakers at work for the ADHD brain, largely fueled by comments from you—listeners and community members. This week, we’re joined by Shell Mendelson, a career coach who helps us to shape a career with ADHD.
Listen NowThis week, we’re continuing our job series and talking about deal breakers — those things that you see or experience in your job or on the job hunt that you simply can’t or won’t tolerate. We asked our listeners to weigh in on the topic again this week, and it turns out they had a lot to say.
Listen NowWork is hard. Working with ADHD adds a layer of complication around self-direction and awareness which others might not understand. This week, Nikki and Pete are talking about the red flags at work that can help you get a better sense of your own performance and clearly define your needs to your team.
Listen NowWhat do you do? You’re probably tempted to try and describe your job title. But what does that mean to anyone outside your business, and how well does that title describe who you are? This week, Nikki and Pete kick off the ADHD Jobs Series with an exploration of work, and how our work defines us.
Listen NowOur friend James Ochoa is back! This week we’re talking about the lessons you can learn from inflection points in your ADHD journey. What did you learn? What did you gain? What can come from it? Listen in as James helps Pete practice on one of his ancient ADHD stories!
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