I’ve ranted and raved on this blog previously about how having ADD can make it hard to actually accomplish anything that’s not strictly necessary. It’s also no secret that I have entrepreneurial aspirations, but I’ve had a really hard time successfully executing on them. I have also been known to avoid doing other things that I [...]
Pardon the stream of though nature that I expect this blog post to embody. I’m pretty much failing to do useful work today. I did get some time in for one of my clients to finish up some unit tests I was writing and I worked on some details for a new project proposal. But [...]
I finally figured out why the heck I’m writing this blog. I’m talking to myself. You see, over the last week or so I’ve publicly spilled the beans on various challenges I’m working through including depression, ADD, business, etc. But I haven’t really been sure why I’ve been doing this. There are some things I’ve [...]
When I started my blog I was at a low point. As I’ve mentioned previously, I’m afflicted with ADD and depression. And, I have seasonal depression on top of it all. I don’t remember my SAD being so bad the last few years, but this year has been murder. Perhaps this is because over the [...]
As someone with ADD, it’s incredibly easy to get knocked off course. The phone rings, you get an IM, you’re connected to the internet in any way, etc. Or perhaps like me this morning, your little girl wakes up at 5am and proceeds to throw up. And then your cat does the same thing 20 minutes later. [...]
One of the main reasons I rebooted this blog was to help me work out what I should be doing with myself. I have a lot of individual goals, but no specific strategy on how to accomplish them. Right now I’m flailing around randomly, doing a bit here and a bit there, but not making [...]
Hi, I’m Doug Hughes. This is a reboot of my personal blog at DougHughes.net. I used to have another blog here a few years ago where I wrote about personal and technical topics. This was back in a time when I was still getting my company, Alagad, off the ground and a lot of business [...]
