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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals

@chriswaterguy.bsky.social
1.6K followers 1.2K following 1.1K posts

ADHD business and life coach. Understanding of neurodivergence. I believe in community and in science communication. Sydney 🇦🇺 Rationality, post-rationalist, EA-adjacent, TPOT-ish.

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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Honestly it's been Facebook, become much worse with the algorithm now full of things that maximise Zuckerberg's revenue rather than our friends' posts.
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
*shamed (autocorrect)
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I like the idea of BlueSky, but can we agree that it's not replacing Twitter? Instead it's a choir preaching to itself. Only welcoming to the very progressive. Others are ashamed. (I happen to be very progressive myself, but maybe not pure enough. And I don't want to live in a bubble.)
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
What's the best typo you've ever seen?
Tweet from Benjamin Ryan: "This is misinformation about #monkeypox. The outbreak is occurring almost entirely among men who have sex with me..."
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Ferdinand F. Zebua @ferdizebua.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
. @chriswaterguy.bsky.social I just wanna mention on Bluesky that I very much vibe with this tweet of yours from yesterday: > "Death defies our irrational but persistent belief in the inevitability of living." > > Aye
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Cool. I'll definitely install KDE Plasma. One thing I loved about Linux was that I could install multiple DEs and components, and use something from a different DE if I preferred it.
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
That said, I'm open to a less "lightweight" Linux desktop environment. I suspect KDE won't be noticeably slower on most hardware from the last 10 years.
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Choosing a Linux distro after years on Windows. BunsenLabs & MX Linux appeal to me. Thoughts? I loved Crunchbang Linux – a smooth, light, fast & configurable Openbox/LXDE mashup on Debian stable. BunsenLabs is its main successor. MX Linux seems kinda similar, with bigger community. #Linux
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Do you have alternatives you could pursue, that you would prefer?
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
That dip around 2008–2012 is informative. The bottom half got wiped out while the wealthy consolidated.
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
What are you avoiding? (If you're up for it: Why?)
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
If you want to endear yourself to a Pakistani friend, try telling them how much you love Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I run workshops on these topics as well as coaching one-on-one. And I work globally (yay internet): North America Pacific Coast and Australia/NZ are the easiest time zones and I'd love more of these clients! 3/3
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
A major part of the progress in this client's work has been on the source of resistance; the connection between emotions and ADHD. If that's something you haven't worked on, there's alpha in this! 2/3
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Resistance. Comment from a client today about managing ADHD: "I was operating from an assumption that if I get systems and tech sorted, I'll be fine. But you can't systematise your way around not wanting to do something." (Shared with permission.) 1/3
The author, face scrunched in frustration.
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Ruth 🏳️‍🌈 @paintedpigeon.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Finally reading The Anti-Planner by @danidonovan.com (no you cannot prove that I put it on my bookshelf and forgot about it, shut up) and wait is it common for deadlines you make up not to work? At least in neurodivergent people?
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genevieve 🏳️‍⚧️ @triceratops.zone · 17/03/2026
ME: oh a little Zohran video for St Patrick's Day, probably just celebrating Irish culture, maybe a few green beer jokes ZOHRAN (2 minutes in): ...and that's why King Leopold I of Belgium is a big wet bitch. Furthermore...
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
That is the monkey mind. Welcome to your human nature. Meditation can be a good way to start the day or to reset, for that reason: "Today it's hard to focus. I'll work in shorter blocks. And I'll start with a task that's more forgiving of my current state of mind."
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I often say the first benefit of meditation is awareness: See just how distracted and distractible and preoccupied your mind is. Without judgement. "I can't meditate, my mind is distractible. I can't stop thinking."
Zen circle symbol: The ensō represents the universe, enlightenment and ‘mu’—the void.
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I love new & different flavours. In jam or other fruit flavoured things, I choose ones I haven't had for a while: Apricot. Raspberry. Blackberry. Cherry. Why would I have the popular strawberry? But then I do have strawberry again and it blows me away. 10 out of 10, top tier. 🍓
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I think it's more likely he won't vote Trump, but I certainly won't be shocked if he again decides the woke are the greater threat. open.substack.com/pub/bariweis...
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Richard Hanania: Why I Changed My Mind. And Why You Should Too.
I regret my vote for Donald Trump. I don’t regret admitting my mistake, writes Richard Hanania.
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
He turned anti-Trump and anti-MAGA about a month into Trump's second term. Better late than never. Now he's using all his skills as a troll to provoke MAGA and other racists on Twitter. I enjoy seeing it. Small blessings.
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Sometimes it's very distressing to be made out of meat. Hope you're doing okay.
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Love to see it. Getting out of the distraction vortex is a good thing. Unsubscribing from deeply unethical businesses is a good thing.
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Mobius Stripper @mobiusstripper.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
If I die, I want my remains to be scattered at the US Capitol. Do not cremate me.
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I was getting bulk billed skin checks. Recently checked and it's $65. That's enough to make many people delay.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
granular, practical, well organized info here: www.wired.com/story/how-to...
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How to Film ICE
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.
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Toni Whited @toniwhited.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
It's a shame that 90s style weird pizzas are so out of vogue because this one is SPECTACULAR. Pears, walnuts, blue cheese, olive oil drizzle, sage, salami (or prosciutto), and mozzarella. Before and after. SO GOOD.
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 29/11/2024
One thing about teaching economics is that students don’t start at zero – they start at negative two, what with all the bizarre misconceptions that are circulating #TeachEcon
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Lots of people getting this and no one knows why lol. Ignoring it until and unless they give a good reason (and I might still say no, because I want a small security attack surface)
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Rebecca Roache @rebeccaroache.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Need help with your procrastination problem? Read my latest article in Psyche! psyche.co/guides/how-t... #academicsky #procrastination #productivity
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How to think differently about procrastination and make progress | Psyche Guides
Avoid the trap of thinking you’re either working or not. A different mindset promises less self-judgment and more progress
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I love this. But also, pause and try a strategy. Laughs are good but beware of reinforcing your helplessness.
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
If I don't follow you back, it may be because I'm trying to focus less on US political outrages. Trying to think global but act local. There's little I can do from here, except support grassroots democracy in Australia and hope it spread s.
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A lot of my Bluesky feed is rage about the USA's politics, corruption and state violence. I share the rage! Strength to your arm. Organise and oppose.
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Full poem: anthonywilsonpoetry.com/2013/08/31/l... If I understand poetry (which I probably don't) it's about illness, loss, grief and the transforming effect of a person's presence and memory.
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Lifesaving Poems: Tom Paulin’s ‘A Lyric Afterwards’
‘A Lyric Afterwards’ was the poem in which I finally got Tom Paulin. I had been given a tape of him reading his poems for my birthday.  The A-Side was Seamus Heaney; Paulin wa…
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
"…when I see you walking by the river, a step from me, there is this great kindness everywhere: now in the grace of the world and always." A poem by Tom Paulin, "A Lyric Afterwards"
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I haven't found a comfortable mask that actually seals well in my larger size. But I really prefer not being sick, so if it's crowded or poorly ventilated, I wear my slightly uncomfortable mask and put up with it.
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Conflicts that are decades old are the story of trauma, vengeance and striving for security. You don't create peace by making people feel more endangered.
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Giving it a listen. Thank you
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Gay & Tonic @deerene.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
One day, your brain will say “I feel better! I don’t even need these meds!” And it’s very important that you do not listen 😂
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/12/2025
In the sixth month of a disastrous reign in the house of money in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war
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We Lived Happily During the War
And when they bombed other people’s houses, we   protested but not enough, we opposed them but not   enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America   was falling: invisible house by invisible house by...
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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Triggers don't exist to punish us, although it can absolutely feel that way sometimes. Triggers point to our wounds & tell us where gentleness & care is needed inside. I know, the experience sucks. We don't have to love it. But we do have to understand what triggers are & aren't.
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Classic example of accessibility measures benefiting more people than intended.
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Reality: ADHD strategies work very well for many people and circumstances. (Sleep-deprived, rushed, stressed or otherwise compromised? Your executive functions are compromised.) But standard neurotypical strategies are often awful for people with ADHD.
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Classic example of accessibility measures benefiting more people than intended.
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I find that ADHD strategies work very well for a range of people and circumstances. Sleep-deprived, rushed, stressed or otherwise compromised? Your executive functions are compromised. (But standard neurotypical strategies are often awful for people with ADHD.)
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
What does that require? I'm guessing massive majorities in govt and extremely strict controls on capital, in a way we've never seen before. (I support a significant inheritance tax, but even 40% would create a huge motivation evasion and avoidance which needs to be prepared for.)
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Chris Waterguy – coaching neurodivergent professionals @chriswaterguy.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
"The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, but also the spirit is weak"
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
This thread is me sharing how I deal with prioritizing self care when I'm too fatigued or depressed to do self-care but I need to do self-care to stop being fatigued/depressed. Breaking it down to be as simple as possible in case you're on your last brain cell (and therefore most in need of it).
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