Aaron Judge’s HISTORIC 2024 season revealed: Yankees slugger takes aim at his own HR record as he and Juan Soto rival Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig’s historic 1927 production

[ad_1] Friday is ‘Aaron Judge Football Jersey Night’ at Yankee Stadium, where the first 18,000 arrivals will receive a gridiron-inspired keepsake from the legendary slugger’s greatest season – a development that may surprise casual fans. Somehow, Judge has managed to improve upon his 2022 MVP campaign, when he broke Roger Maris’ American League record with 62 homers on the year. This season Judge has posted career highs in batting average (.333), on-base percentage (.467), slugging percentage (.731) and a host of advanced analytics all while blasting 51 homers over 132 games. And he still has another month to go. But while Yankees faithful may clamor for No. 99 collectibles in the Bronx on Friday (and again during Sunday’s ‘Aaron Judge Tall Order Socks’ promotion), his historic ascent has failed to generate nationwide interest like his nearest competitors. For instance, fans were lining up in Los Angeles six and seven hours before Shohei Ohtani bobblehead night on Wednesday amid his widely celebrated first season with the Dodgers. And whereas Judge got all but two first-place votes for American League MVP in 2022, he’s now facing a serious challenge from Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. this season. Aaron Judge celebrates with teammates after a first-inning home run on Sunday Judge has one month to break his own American League record of 62 home runs in a season  Judge’s 2024 is even more impressive considering his slow start. He entered May 5 hitting just .209 with a paltry (for him) .409 slugging percentage. But Judge tweaked his stance while homering off Tigers ace Tarik Skubal that day and has not looked back.  Since May 5, Judge has hit a remarkable .381 while reaching base on more than half of his plate appearances. In fact, Judge’s .513 on-base percentage over his last 97 games is 87 points better than his closest rival, Houston Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez. Along the way, Judge became the first player in MLB history to hit .375 or better with 45 home runs over a 100-game span. Remarkably, only 11 players ever have produced that much over an entire season. And On August 15, in a 10-2 win over the lowly Chicago White Sox, Judge smacked his 300th career home run in just his 955th career game – the fewest of anyone to reach that plateau. Aaron Judge is doused with water after hitting his 300th home run on August 14 in Chicago In traditional Judge fashion, he undersold the accomplishment when speaking with reporters. ‘It’s a great achievement,’ he said. ‘Like I said a couple days ago, I was hoping it would come in a win. It came in a big win for us. We were down for a little bit, couldn’t get much going, so I was just excited it was there in a big moment.’ Judge’s humility notwithstanding, the California native has absolutely slugged his way into baseball history, even if the numbers can be difficult to parse at times.  As with other sports, baseball statistics are not easily comparable across generations. Generally speaking, the 60s were considered a golden age for pitchers, while power hitters famously enjoyed historic success during the steroid-tainted late 1990s and early 2000s. There are also issues with comparing hitters and pitchers who play home games in dramatically different ballparks. For instance, Yankee Stadium’s famously short right-field porch serves as a tremendous crutch for power hitters, while sabotaging even the best pitchers in the game. To account for these discrepancies and to avoid unfair comparisons, a statistic known as ‘Adjusted OPS+’ was developed. Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth sit by the batting cage at League Park in Cleveland in July of 1927 Essentially, OPS+ allows fans, historians, and reporters to compare players without any statistical noise from park factors or generational trends. A league-average OPS+ is 100 in any given season, whereas an OPS+ of 150 indicates the hitter was 50 percent better than a league-average batsman. That means Judge’s career-best, MLB-leading 229 OPS+ in 2024 is 129 percent better than a league-average hitter this season. Most importantly, that figure accounts for any advantage Judge receives from Yankee Stadium’s aforementioned short right-field porch. Not only is Judge’s current OPS+ superior to his 2022 mark by 19 points, but it’s among the greatest in baseball history. Josh Gibson, Ted Williams, Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds and a handful of early 20th century hitters boast better single-season production, but only Bonds has done so this millennium. RUTH/GEHRIG vs. JUDGE/SOTO   PLAYER               YEAR      HRs             AVG/OBP/SLG                    OPS+ Babe Ruth           1927        60            .356/.486/.772                   225 Lou Gehrig         1927        47              .373/.474/.765                   220 Aaron Judge      2024*      51             .333/.467/.731                    229 Juan Soto            2024*     37             .291/.421/.590                   180 * – Through 134 Games  If Judge has any current rivals in terms of offensive skills, it’s the Dodgers’ Ohtani and his own teammate, Juan Soto. The first-year Yankee and soon-to-be free agent is second in baseball with an OPS+ of 180, and should he decide to re-sign in the Bronx, would preserve the game’s most formidable offensive duo since, arguably, Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Not convinced?  Ruth and Gehrig were the only two teammates in baseball history to each post a 180 OPS+ and 35 home runs in the same season until Soto and Judge did so over the first five months of 2024. And when it comes to Wins Above Replacement – a stat known as ‘WAR’ that serves to measure how many

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Barbie can beat smartphone addiction, firm claims

[ad_1] A Barbie-branded phone has been launched in the UK and Europe with the aim – its makers say – of helping young people take a break from their smartphones. It is a very pink and fundamentally very basic device, with no front camera, only one game and very limited access to the internet. Manufacturer HMD, which also makes phones for Nokia, says it’s trying to tap into what it calls a “surge” of people wanting a smaller “digital impact” on their lives. But others say that would be better achieved by teaching people how to use their devices in a healthier and more controlled way. There are growing calls from parents and campaigners to limit the time children spend on smartphones, or even ban the devices completely. Their concerns range from the suspicion children will end up with shorter attention spans, to the fear that they might be exposed to harmful or illegal content. Some schools are taking action, perhaps most eye-catchingly the UK’s best known fee-paying school, Eton College. It is providing some of its pupils with “brick” phones – also sometimes called feature phones – which can only send and receive texts and calls. It says it wants to “balance the benefits and challenges that technology brings to schools.” And this week mobile network EE waded into the debate by advising parents not to allow their under-11s smartphones at all. Lars Silberbauer, a senior executive at HMD, says it is these trends his firm is responding to. “We’ve seen this surge which started in the US coming to Europe, that more and more people actually want to not be having a digital experience all the time,” he said. Some may be sceptical about how truly noble Mr Silberbauer’s motives are – and he did concede he would “love” to be able to incorporate a messaging platform like WhatsApp into the Barbie phone. But I spent a day using it and, for now, there is little doubt that as a digital detox it was certainly effective because of its very limited functionality. It is mirror-fronted flip phone and has no app store or touch screen. I had no social media at all, and the phone can not receive anything more advanced than SMS messages. That means no text messages with “read receipts” or the function to see when someone is typing. It is the default setting on many smartphones – so I didn’t get many text messages either. Even with predictive text enabled I found the numbers and letters keypad much slower than a touchscreen keyboard and as a result I ended up calling more people than usual, which perhaps was no bad thing. And I discovered there are only so many times you can play the retro Nokia game Snake, even when it’s called Malibu Snake and it’s pink. But the handset certainly attracted a lot of attention, especially from girls and young women, as I walked around Glasgow city centre with it. There is of course the danger that instead of being pestered for a smartphone, parents will find themselves being pestered for a piece of Barbie merchandise – which may be just as unwelcome. The phone has a launch price of £99 in the UK – twice what you would pay for a non-branded Nokia feature phone. There are plenty of other phones on the market that offer the same limited functionality, but without any kind of big corporate tie in. “I’d imagine quite a few people will be tempted to buy it as a bit of fun, but in reality, everyone is so dependent on their smartphones that anything more than the odd day of detox will be a stretch,” says Ben Wood, a phone expert who has his own museum of devices released over the years. Nonetheless, he says, there is a market for what are sometimes called “dumbphones”. His firm, CCS Insight, estimates that around 400,000 will be sold in the UK this year. “That’s an attractive niche for a company like HMD”, he says. Some experts suggest that withdrawing smartphones is no real solution – they are woven into our lives, after all – and instead children need to be taught how to use them in a healthy and safe way. “What we should be doing instead is thinking about, how do we build really good, really long term, sustainable digital literacy skills in that generation,” says Pete Etchells, professor of psychology and science communication at Bath Spa university, who has written extensively about the issue of screen time. “I think we could all be better at using our phones in a healthier and more resilient way,” he said. HMD is also working on a separate project, a new device which it is designing in collaboration with parents. It says more than 1,000 people have signed up to work on it so far. And Mr Silberbaum concedes that the resulting handset may well end up being something that sits somewhere between a dumbphone and a smartphone. “Do I want the smartphone with all the bells and whistles, or do I want to have something that can actually help me have a more considered approach to digital? That’s the choice we want to deliver,” he said. [ad_2] Source link

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A Journalist’s Journey into WordPress

[ad_1] Small town girl Friends and family who know me well aren’t surprised that I publish The Repository, a weekly email about WordPress. You see, I grew up in Zeehan, a one-way street of a town on the west coast of Tasmania, the island that’s at the bottom of Australia. The population at the time was around 2,000 and everyone knew everyone.  My Dad worked at the nearby tin mine and my Mum wrangled me and my two younger brothers while working as a bookkeeper and volunteering at the local neighbourhood centre. Dad loved gadgets. He was always following us around with whatever video camera was new at the time. He bought a CD player when they were first released (John Farnham was high on rotation). He also bought an Amiga 600 (I was obsessed with Golden Axe and Lemmings). It wasn’t long before our computer was replaced with a Windows 95 machine. When Mum wasn’t doing her word processing, I was writing stories. I loved stories and had my heart set on working at a newspaper one day. At 14, I started helping out with the weekly community newsletter. Locals would drop off their submissions at shops around town and then I’d design each A5 booklet in Microsoft Publisher, print them off and fold them. Locals could then buy a copy for 20 cents. It was fun for a while but man, folding and stapling several dozen copies was a chore! I received an Australia Day Community Award for my efforts. Writing and designing the newsletter led to playing with web pages and teaching myself HTML and CSS. Since we didn’t have the internet at home, I saved up my pocket money to buy those magazines you could get with CDs attached. At 18, I went to university. I clearly recall speaking to a journalism lecturer at an open day about my interest in completing an arts degree with a double major in journalism and computer science. She laughed and asked, “Why would you want to do that?” I guess my Mum’s stubbornness also rubbed off on me. I graduated with my degree (and double major!) and went on to work as a newspaper reporter for Fairfax and later News Ltd. I loved working as a journalist. As much as I enjoyed reporting rounds and covering politics for a while, it was a joy and a privilege writing other people’s stories when I moved to community news reporting and editing. But all good things must come to an eye. I eventually left news reporting, disillusioned that I was working harder than ever for a wage that would never buy me a house, and I was filing stories that were half-finished because they had to go up ASAP for social media. Hello WordPress! It was time to explore my other major. I landed a job writing for WPMU DEV, a main-stay of the WordPress business community. It was my first time working professionally with WordPress after many years creating websites for family, friends and community groups. I learned a lot. I had the writing chops and knew how to use WordPress (I’d come a long way since my hand-coding days!), but it was a baptism of fire learning to become a power user and create top-notch content for our mostly agency and freelancer audience. Not long after starting at WPMU DEV, I went to my first WordCamp, WordCamp Melbourne 2013. Walking into the event, I felt way out of my depth, especially as I’m an introvert attending alone. I stayed for a couple of sessions and then left. Living in Australia, it’s not easy getting to WordCamps because they’re so far away! Not to be put off by my first experience, I went to WordCamp Europe 2015 in Seville, Spain, and had an incredible time hanging out with colleagues, meeting new people, and melting in the extreme heat. Suffice to say, WPMU DEV was a fun place to work, but eventually it was time to move on. I was ready to go out on my own and launched Words By Birds, a copy and content studio. I worked mostly with WordPress businesses, producing high-quality content, copywriting and strategies. One of my favourite clients was MailPoet, headed up at the time by co-founder Kim Gjerstad. We clicked immediately. We’d both worked as journalists and talked a lot about starting some kind of newsletter together that focused on WordPress news. Eventually, we stopped talking and started doing. On November 8, 2019, we sent the first issue of The Repository to 49 subscribers. Kim handled the business and marketing side of things while I focused on writing. We were a great team, and it’s a collaboration I’m very grateful for, especially in hindsight. Not too long into The Repository’s history, I took a few weeks off to focus on another important project. My son was born in February 2020, and you can guess what happens next. As the COVID-19 pandemic kicked off, it felt like the world went into hibernation with me. I happily spent my days at home learning to be a mum without the pressure of the outside world. It felt like great timing. Well, that lasted six weeks. Soon, I was back at it, writing The Repository. I read articles and scrolled social media during the week and spent Fridays writing. With a newborn often attached to me, I had to find creative ways to write. When my son was really little, I could pop him in a wrap and wear him while I typed at my kitchen table. I wrote while he napped. I wrote at night. I even wrote with only one hand when I needed to breastfeed. Like all good businesses in the WordPress space, MailPoet was acquired. Kim graciously gave me his share in The Repository and left WordPress to work on other things. It was also around this time that my career took a turn and I stopped working full-time in the WordPress space.

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Southampton announce the £25m signing of Aaron Ramsdale from Arsenal, as the goalkeeper dresses up as Hagrid for his unveiling – after disguising himself as the Harry Potter character at last season’s play-off final

[ad_1] Southampton have announced the signing of Aaron Ramsdale from Arsenal, with the goalkeeper dressing up as Hagrid from the Harry Potter movies.  Rather hilariously, Ramsdale was spotted wearing a Hagrid disguise during Southampton’s play-off final victory against Leeds last season.  The goalkeeper subsequently revealed he had donned the outfit as he went to Wembley to cheer on winger David Brooks, on loan at Saints at the time. The pair are close friends and it is their tradition to attend the play-offs in fancy dress, should one of their friends make it to play under the arch.  Ramsdale will join the south coast club in an initial £18million deal, with Southampton set to pay an additional £7m in add-ons.  The 26-year-old has agreed a four-year deal to stay at St Mary’s and can extend his contract by an additional 12 months.  Aaron Ramsdale was unveiled as a Southampton player while wearing a Hagrid outfit   On Friday, the ex-Arsenal goalkeeper signed for Saints in a £25million contract, joining for four years It brings an end to his three-year stay at the Emirates Stadium, after Ramsdale had been usurped as Mikel Arteta’s first choice between the sticks by David Raya.  Speaking out today on his unique fancy dress choice, Ramsdale told the club: ‘A group of my friends, we all play football and there’s a couple of lads who don’t, we’ve been twice before to watch our friend Harvey Gilmore play for Tranmere and Halifax,’ he said. ‘Both times we’ve done fancy dress.  ‘A group of my friends, we all play football and there’s a couple of lads who don’t, we’ve been twice before to watch our friend Harvey Gilmore play for Tranmere and Halifax,’ he said. ‘Both times we’ve done fancy dress.’ Saints announced his arrival on X (formerly Twitter) by the iconic movie character, writing: ‘Yer a Saint, @AaronRamsdale98,’ before writing in a separate post: ‘Wizard of the window.’  Ramsdale would go on to make 89 appearances for Arsenal following his £26m transfer from Sheffield United in 2021 and grew to become a favourite amongst the fans at the Emirates Stadium.  He would go on to make 11 appearances in all competitions during the 2023-24 campaign, but will now get a shot at regular first-team football with Southampton.  ‘I’m absolutely delighted,’ said Ramsdale told the club.  Ramsdale was spotted in the stands cheering on Southampton’s David Brooks, a close friend Ramsdale will join the south coast club in an initial £18million deal, with Southampton set to pay an additional £7m in add-ons The transfer brings an end to his three-year stay at Arsenal, with Ramsdale making 89 appearances for the north London club Ramsdale stated that it was his ambition to get back to playing football, after having ‘sat on the bench at Arsenal’  ‘The way the manager wants to play, the way he was when I spoke to him, he was just full of so much enthusiasm. I’d never met him before but he made me feel about eight feet tall, which is just what you want.’  Speaking on his lack of game time last season, he said: ‘I’ve had the feeling of sitting on the bench and I don’t want to do that again. Playing football, winning games of football, even getting draws away from home against big opposition or when your back’s against the wall. ‘When you see the fans’ faces at the end and you know the joy it brings and also the joy it brings the squad on Monday morning after a scrappy late win away from home or a really grinded-out win against a tough opponent.’ Arteta has subsequently thanked Ramsdale, following his move.  ‘Firstly I want to say thank you so much [to Ramsdale] for what he has done for the club, for the team, for myself,’ the Arsenal boss said in a press conference earlier today.  ‘When he joined, he brought a lot of joy and charisma and brought his energy and he was really good at that time.  The ex-Arsenal goalkeeper posed for a selfie with a supporter at BOXPARK Wembley He was later seen chatting to fans in the stands – minus Hagrid’s bushy black stick-on beard ‘Things developed and he had a situation that was very difficult for him and was insisting a lot that he is very happy when he plays. We have tried to fulfil that desire that he had.  ‘He looked really happy and excited the other day and he’s joining a great club with a great coach. So I think we are all happy for him.’ [ad_2] Source link

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Esports World Cup champion aiming for real world of motorsport

[ad_1] Esports World Cup Foundation Luke Bennett was a world champion at the Esports World Cup in Saudi Arabia Eight weeks, hundreds of competitors across multiple events and a multi-million pound prize pot – but this wasn’t any sports tournament. Luke Bennett is coming home from the first Esports World Cup in Saudi Arabia as a world champion. Not only that, the 19-year-old from Bromsgrove in Worcestershire is also returning £100,000 richer after bagging the top prize in sim racing (short for simulated racing). “It’s pretty surreal,” Luke tells BBC Newsbeat. But now he’s hoping he has a chance to make it properly real with a career in motorsport. Luke’s part of Team Redline – an offshoot of Red Bull’s F1 team which boasts Belgian-Dutch racing driver Max Verstappen among its alumni. “It’s just like racing a car in real life,” Luke says of sim racing. “But on a computer.” The team was founded more than 20 years ago but Luke says people are still surprised when he talks about what he does. He says people are shocked when he tells them about the prize money involved. “It shows it’s getting bigger and bigger and it can be a career for some people.” Team Redline dominated at the Esports World Cup, never finishing outside of the top four once in the grand finals of the tournament. “It’s been a rough few months,” says Luke. “Every day – practice, practice, practice. “All that weight has been lifted off our shoulders now.” The future’s ‘uncertain’ Esports World Cup Foundation Luke’s hoping he may be able to translate his esports success to a real-life racing track Luke isn’t just fast on the virtual track. He says his career is moving at top speed as well. “I started driving with just a £100 steering wheel on the desk and having a bit of fun,” he says. Not long after, fellow competitors noticed his potential and his parents helped him buy a better simulator. “That’s when things really took off,” he says. “I joined Team Redline and after that it’s just been up and up and up until this point right now.” Esports tournaments are still “quite niche and quite new,” he says. “It’s not been long since all this prize money started coming through and all these big competitions started so there’s not many stories of people going all the way.” In that sense, he’s a pioneer, admitting “the future is a bit uncertain” for esports champions. But as uncertain as it might be, the industry received another boost last month when it was announced from next year there would also be an Olympic Esports Games. Like the Esports World Cup, the Games will be held in Saudi Arabia as part of a 12-year partnership between the Kingdom and the International Olympics Committee. Before the World Cup, players, streamers and fans were divided by the decision for it to be hosted in the Arab country – which also funded the prize pot – due to its record on human rights. Homosexuality is illegal in Saudi Arabia and it has faced criticism over its stance on LGBT relationships as well as lack of rights for women. Critics condemned it as “sportswashing” but the decision was defended by organisers who told Newsbeat no-one would face discrimination at the event. Getty Images About 1,500 gamers competes at the Esports World Cup in Riyadh Luke says the country was “a really cool setting” for the event and now has his eye on winning more tournaments and making it to the Olympics – something he says would be “unbelievable”. “I think I’d find it a bit weird calling myself an Olympian because I really don’t feel like one,” he says. “But it’s something that would be very cool. “The dream is still the same – we may be world champions but there’s always more. “We want to be world champions in everything, so we’ll keep going.” And if he can be a pioneer in an online esports career, Luke sees no reason he can’t be a pioneer offline too. “I hope one day to get into the real world of motorsport,” he says. “I see more and more people get a way in through sim racing now, and hopefully that does happen. “If not, I’ve got plenty of time to decide what I want to do as I’m still only 19.” Listen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays – or listen back here. [ad_2] Source link

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#134 – Chris Ferdinandi on ADHD, Focus, and Working in Tech – WP Tavern

[ad_1] [00:00:00] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, ADHD, focus and working in tech. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice, or by going to wptavern.com/feed/podcast. And you can copy that URL into most podcast players. If you have a topic that you’d like us to feature on the podcast, I’m keen to hear from you and hopefully get you, or your idea featured on the show. Head to wptavern.com/contact/jukebox, and use the form there. So on the podcast today we have Chris Ferdinandi. Chris, a web developer with ADHD, has navigated both the human resources and web development landscapes. He’s here to share his unique experiences and insights on how ADHD has shaped his career and daily life, as well as offer practical strategies for managing ADHD in the workplace and beyond. We talk about the world of ADHD, exploring the challenges and advantages it brings, especially in a world designed for neuro-typical individuals. Chris talks about the abundance of ideas, risk-taking behaviour, and the lack of impulse control that can present both opportunities and obstacles. He candidly discusses how ADHD affects his ability to focus, regulate attention, and how it impacts emotions and impulse control. Chris refers to ADHD traits as superpowers, and embraces them whilst also acknowledging the real world difficulties. He discusses how ADHD individuals often struggle with hyper focus, and how interruptions can be particularly detrimental to their workflows. He suggests structuring workdays with blocked off meeting times to maintain focus upon tasks which need doing in the timescales required. We also touch upon other workplace accommodations, the importance of understanding ADHD subtypes, and navigating disclosure in professional settings. Chris emphasises the strengths that come with ADHD, and offers practical tips like starting small tasks, trying to regulate dopamine and taking breaks. Towards the end of the podcast, Chris invites listeners to engage with him and explore more resources on his website, which is linked to in the show notes, which you can find at wptavern.com/podcast, where you’ll find all the other episodes as well. If you’re curious about how ADHD can turn challenges into career strengths, this episode is for you. And so without further delay, I bring you Chris Ferdinandi. I am joined on the podcast by Chris Ferdinandi. Hi Chris. [00:03:21] Chris Ferdinandi: Hey Nathan. Thanks so much for having me. [00:03:23] Nathan Wrigley: You are very, very welcome. Chris is on the podcast today, we just had a little chat actually about how we connected, and that’s a story in itself. We were going to do a different podcast episode, but we’ve ended up doing this one. The story today is going to be all about ADHD. I explained to Chris that I know what the acronym means, we’ll have question marks about the acronym’s appropriateness as well. But I actually don’t know how it applies to people’s lives. My knowledge of medicine and all of that is pretty poor in all honesty. So there’s a nice conversation to be had. Before we begin that conversation, Chris, I’m just wondering if you could just set out the stall, give us your two minute bio, who you are, what your relationship is with web development, and all of that. [00:04:04] Chris Ferdinandi: Yeah, absolutely. I’m a web developer, I have ADHD. I originally started off my life as a human resource professional, sometimes called personnel, depending on where you’re at. And I had a WordPress blog because I had really strong opinions on how HR worked, and what I liked about it, and what I didn’t, and I wanted to have a little bit more control over look and feel of that. So I taught myself web development, and eventually loved it so much that I made it my job. So WordPress literally kickstarted my career. But early in my career, I felt like I couldn’t get anything done. I was pretty sure I was going to get fired from my first job, and that kind of sent me down this whole rabbit hole of exploration, and learning about productivity and stuff. But since then, I’ve discovered a bunch of systems and strategies that work for me, that let me turn my ADHD into a superpower. One of the things I learned is that a lot of productivity advice for neurotypical folks just does not work for ADHD people. And yeah, so I’m here today talk about the joys and struggles of being a developer with ADHD. [00:05:03] Nathan Wrigley: Oh, it’s really interesting. I’m really pleased that you are willing to talk to me about this, and I do apologise if I put my foot in my mouth at any point. But we’ll try to get through it, and hopefully you’ll be able to educate me as the podcast episode goes on. My understanding of ADHD, as I said, is incredibly narrow. I really only know what the acronym is, and the broadest brush strokes of what that might mean. We use the term in the UK ADHD, that acronym, but I’ve also heard people say ADD. Do you just want to outline what the acronym stands for? And just flesh out a little bit how it applies to your life, and what it means for you, and how you might be different from somebody without ADHD. [00:05:42] Chris Ferdinandi: Absolutely. ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. ADD stands for Attention Deficit Disorder. They used to be, like I think around the eighties, nineties, they were considered two different things. These days, in most medical literature, it is all ADHD, and then there’s a few different subtypes. One of them is inattentive, which is what you would normally think

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