And it's not really about Hans Reiser, either. It's really there is a full, the full Hans Reiser story is in this book and there is a full true crime book within The Adderall Diaries. But really it's a memoir. And more specifically it's really a book about writing and being a writer.
Right. Right. Well, if you're a romance novelist, you just write the bare text, and then Adjective Adder comes in and makes the right selections for you. And Adverb Adder , saves all that typing, and thinking. Because it's a romance novel.
And you know it makes sense because when we think about methamphetamine as a drug-- you all know Adderall, right? Everybody knows Adderall. Adderall's the drug that we prescribe for Attention Deficit Disorder. Children take it, adults take it, writers take it, people who need to write programs take it.
You want to let people know what the real problem may be. methamphetamine is to Adderall, we vilify Adderall.
So the difference engine was a machine for addition, to print logarithmic tables. It was basically a gigantic adder that could print in order to print these books of tables that would be used by actuaries or navigators or whoever. Pretty much the same year he met Ada, in the early 1830s, Babbage came up with an idea for a much more complex machine.
There's two machines of Babbage, the difference engine and the analytical engine. The difference engine is essentially an adder . It really only adds.
And so that was kind of my introduction into jazz, and a high fidelity record that I first heard was Miles Davis's record with Cannonball Adderley. And so I gravitated towards that because you listened to it, and it felt good.
A wide range of folks take this drug. So when you look at Adderall, the active ingredient is amphetamine. And then you compare it to methamphetamine, they are essentially the same drug.
Now, to give you a little bit of sense of what we're getting at here, remember we said you rewire the machine to program it. So that means that if I want this adder to be adding a value that comes from over here, somewhere I've got to have a cabling connection that brings the data from the source to the destination.
So if you practice that, you can save literally ones of seconds of your life on a daily basis. So you can do any arithmetic you want with a full adder , because you've got the two numbers you're adding, you've got a carry from any previous calculation,
So if you practice that, you can save literally ones of seconds of your life on a daily basis. And so if you can make a full adder , you're effectively counting any free inputs and getting the two digit out.
going to mess up your sleep. And it wasn't like-- you didn't need Adderall all day long to keep you awake, and then, of course mess up your sleep. And it was healthy.
But what happens is that you have a little bit of a letdown. A lighter version of a stimulant might be like Adderall, lighter compared to amphetamine, or caffeine that we often consume all the time, right? So the Russian-- the Soviets were like, hey, is there anything else that we could take which would perform performance, maybe not as much,
And I actually think that's a valid argument. And it's the same deal with like Adderall, or Ritalin, or whatever.
Walker. So the blues is a special part. His best and closest friend was Julian Cannonball Adderley.
It's basically pure amphetamine but we prescribe it to young children. And I just started documenting going back on Adderall. Right about that time, Sean Sturgeon confessed to eight and a half
So if you practice that, you can save literally ones of seconds of your life on a daily basis. All right? So this is the full adder .
How did that impact your career? And there were lots of teachers that wanted to put me on Ritalin or Adderall.
So if you practice that, you can save literally ones of seconds of your life on a daily basis. And some of you know if you chain these in a row-- if you have adders in row, you can add numbers of any size.
You want to let people know what the real problem may be. And that's not my goal, because Adderall actually helps a large number of people.
So we can have a little more of a conversation going on. I thought -- so I'll talk a little bit about my book "The Adderall Diaries," which you all get for free. Which I think is just -- it takes so much pressure off of me.
So if you practice that, you can save literally ones of seconds of your life on a daily basis. We have 1,000 dominoes, and we built a working full adder out of dominoes.
I had been living with that diagnosis in my head for a little bit, and I was able to accept that. So I start taking meds for ADD, basically stimulants like Adderall or Ritalin. I take something called dextroamphetamine.
He said, "Surely there are times when you've been sad. When I very first started taking, actually, my Adderall-- for me, my dextrin--
It was just an amazing part. Well I think in many cases, people who have ADD might need to prescribe something like Adderall
But then you would realize that Tabitha was just saying she was going to go to the mall and buy Adderall to swallow with beer
These negative effects have been wildly overstated. And you know it makes sense because when we think about methamphetamine as a drug-- you all know Adderall, right? Everybody knows Adderall. Adderall's the drug that we prescribe for Attention Deficit Disorder.
You want to let people know what the real problem may be. make in society. So the body doesn't make a distinction between methamphetamine and Adderall.
So if you practice that, you can save literally ones of seconds of your life on a daily basis. And a few of you are thinking, well, if you've got this far, what you really want is-- this is the full adder .
You want it in a woman's magazine, you hold it like this, and the adjectives all come back. Right. Right. Well, if you're a romance novelist, you just write the bare text, and then Adjective Adder comes in and makes the right selections for you. And Adverb Adder , saves all that typing, and thinking.
And von Neumann and his, the other engineers put together this little book explaining how to build a better computer, things like an adder that we take totally for granted, they
And so I gravitated towards that because you listened to it, and it felt good. This was the first time that I really got into another saxophone player, and it was Cannonball Adderley. And then my saxophone teacher was telling me, oh, you got to hear Bird.
And I actually think that's a valid argument. When you do pound a Red Bull, that's the only way to rapidly up here-- or even Adderall, or whatever shortcut people take--
Don't I,I-I-I, Don't I seem like I'm doping? I'm on Adderall and cough medicine right now, I don't know what's happening. Ahhh. Yes.
Elliot to San Francisco. Stephen's a novelist. He's written seven books, one of which includes his most recent book, "The Adderall Diaries," which he'll be talking about today. His novel "Happy Baby" was the finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lion Award, as well as Best Book of the Year in Salon.com, Newsday, Chicago Newcity, the Journal News,
It wasn't something I had ever set out to do. So I just started, after a year, two years, I went back on Adderall which I had taken when I was younger. You guys know what Adderall is? It's like ritalin. It's an ADD medication.