Focus has become more valuable than intelligence (2018)
As someone that is &quot;on the spectrum,&quot; I can report that focus can be pretty awesome. I generate <i>vast</i> amounts of code, in relatively short time, and am an insanely obsessive debugger.<p>However, it don&#x27;t come for free. If I get &quot;roused&quot; from my &quot;fugue&quot; (what I call &quot;the zone&quot;), I can be cranky. This has not always been helpful in my marriage.<p>Also, I find that I can be &quot;vocabularily challenged&quot; for a few minutes after I break out, sounding like a complete moron; struggling for the most basic terminology. &quot;Whatchacallit&quot; is one of my most-uttered phrases.