Updated Spoon Theory for the Tech Industry
summary
Spoon theory gets updated with concrete practices and workplace specifics: distinct physical mental emotional social sensory spoons, counting spoons as a skill, and the diagnosis ambiguity between lupus fibromyalgia and psoriatic arthritis. Coping tactics include napping creates two miniature days and doing code review from bed when cognition dips. Employer provisions are named — hourly pay, unlimited unpaid time off, bus pass, service elevator and paid Screenhero — and conferences that offer lie-down or bean‑bag chill areas make attendance possible.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:50Whitney Levis
- 1:02Autism & Lupus
- 1:40Intro to Spoon Theory
- 2:36My Spoons & Autism
- 4:21My Spoons & Lupus
- 5:42Types of Spoons
- 6:01Physical Spoons
- 6:19Emotional Spoons
- 6:36Sensory Spoons
- 7:26Quantity of Spoons
- 8:58Very Bad Days
- 9:38Counting Spoons
- 10:29Use All The Spoons
- 11:00Transparency
- 11:49NIRD
- 13:48Greater Ruby Community
- 14:11Ada Developers Academy
- 16:35Intersection of Lupus & Autism
- 17:40Distill & Strange Loop
- 18:31Transforming Work
- 19:44@roseaboveit
- 20:29Confreaks
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