Thomas Bishop

Category: Life

  • Finding Focus in the Chaos

    Finding Focus in the Chaos

    For my entire life, I have had difficulty focusing and retaining information. Like many others, I live with a form of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) โ€” specifically a variation called Inattentive Presentation (ADHD-I). But while I could write an entire series on these struggles, today I wanted to share some things I have found…

  • ๐Ÿ‘‹ Goodbye 2018, Hello 2019 ๐Ÿ˜

    ๐Ÿ‘‹ Goodbye 2018, Hello 2019 ๐Ÿ˜

    2018 is already over, eh? It’s been one hell of a journey, and has brought a huge range of emotions โ€“ from stress and anxiety, to joy and anticipation of things to come. Looking back, there is a lot to celebrate. Here are some of the many highlights from 2018.

  • ๐Ÿ‘‹ Goodbye 2017, Hello 2018 ๐Ÿ‘‹

    If there was one word to describe my 2017, it’d be “bittersweet”. It’s sometimes hard to look around at the world and feel optimistic, but the past year has also been the best of my life. Here were some of the highlights.

  • How my former life as a musician prepared me for design

    [Originally posted on Automatticโ€™s product design blog] I have always had a fascination with the cross-section of art and computers. One of my finest memories as a kid โ€“ circa the mid-1990s โ€“ was watching my dad, a computer programmer, work on an application icon for his companyโ€™s software โ€” one pixel at a time…