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On the campaign trail, Newsom memorized his speeches and all the facts and figures that went in them, a necessity because of dyslexia, a disorder that makes it difficult to read and comprehend written words.
“I just have to quadruple prepare, which is just not easy,” Newsom said, then added: “But look, I’m only here because I do all this.”
During his bus tour, he demonstrated the laborious coping mechanism he’s developed to retain what he reads. He underlines important information, then goes back and rewrites key points in his own hand. He dates the page and stores them in binders separated by subject matter.
Why didn't I speak to more people? The truth is that through eight months of being on the DevTools team I had been isolated to only working on the debugger, so I was timid when it came to interacting outside my team...and it cost me dearly. I'll never attack a problem like this again without talking to more people in the future. I had a wealth of people around me but being timid cost me so much mental anguish.
http://blog.thefirehoseproject.com/posts/cs-degree-or-coding-bootcamp/
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1120&context=cehsdiss