Great! Stop poorly integrating every single thing you can lay your hands on and maybe tend to some of the feature fix requests on idea exchange with hundreds of thousands of votes...
To my recollection, this feeling happens every January. I've seen posts like this for years and years. January is known as the most depressing month. Many people fast from alcohol, maybe fast from media til 1st Feb? I don't know if it'll make you feel good. It might make you feel less bad?
I watched a lot more Star Trek as a kid but it's always the Star Wars universe that I feel drawn to. I can't really quantify it, I think it's just an aesthetic thing. I suppose Star Wars feels more 'wild west'.
Old school sci-fi: am re-reading the Asimov robot stories again. Always something new to reflect on.
They are probably unsure of your motives; are you analysing the business or analysing them? Software problems are extremely hard to estimate unless there is almost complete disclosure and discovery. It's like asking people how long a crossword is going to take without seeing the clues. Or asking how long they're going to spend on a chess move in 3 turn's time. They are possibly cagey because you are asking questions that betray the fact you are seeing this as a management problem rather than listening to what they're telling you about their craft.
Or possibly your manner of communicating is attuned to more socially intuitive people. Try presenting what you need as a problem for them to solve with a clear start and end. That way you're collaborating, and they know when their obligation to interact with you is "done".
Instead of open questions like "can you tell me how X is currently working?" try specific problem setting questions like "I'd like to see if we can make X process be 10% faster, what would that look like?" or "what would you say are the top two things that affect the time process Y takes?"
They may not want to offend you, because many of the answers might be "obvious" and, also, if they're honest workers, as many are, there may not be any clear way to improve certain things as they're already trying their hardest, and your investigation feels more like an inquisition.
Again, it may be that you're asking someone "how can I get you to get this crossword done faster?". It's sort of the wrong question. Unless you're willing to listen to their bugbears which might be the actual things affecting how efficiently things run but might not be the kind of answers project management want to hear.
I can relate. I wrote an insanely good optimiser for the loading of data to the trading platform for a major fund management company and there are like.. 2.. people in the world who know and appreciate
Have you been formally diagnosed by a psychiatrist or other qualified healthcare professional?
Undoubtedly ADHD (especially ADD variant) went underreported for a very long time as until only relatively recently we'd have blamed its symptoms on other things. The increase in people being diagnosed is real.
But it needs to be done by a qualified professional because some ADHD symptoms overlap with other neurodiversity or other conditions. So a portion of self diagnosed people will, in fact, not have ADHD but something else.
The brothers went to Syria to train and attempt to fight in Iraq against the Americans. They stated their motivation was the abuse carried out at Abu Ghraib by the Americans.
Then they trained in Yemen
They were eventually assoiated with al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula
They expressed a desire to kill Jews, Chérif Kouachi specifically stating that he wanted to firebomb Jews
Targetting Jews is what their accomplice, Amedy Coulibaly, actually did attacking a Jewish supermarket
Kouachi stated his motivation was "avenging the prophet Muhammad" (for the cartoon) and retaliating against the "killing women and children in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan"
Jews.. America.. a media company. Not the French state. They have never cited Algeria as their motivation. You really shouldn't be erasing their identity and narrative and substituting your own. That's quite colonial of you...
Great! Stop poorly integrating every single thing you can lay your hands on and maybe tend to some of the feature fix requests on idea exchange with hundreds of thousands of votes...