Treat ADHD cognition like a systems design input, not a flaw to hide.

This track reframes parallel thinking, novelty seeking, abstraction, and chaos tolerance as engineering leverage, then turns them into practical workflow scaffolding.

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Most productivity advice assumes a brain that prefers linearity and uniform energy. This cluster is the counter-program: use neurodivergent traits as a design constraint and build systems around them.

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ADHD and neurodivergent developers, designers, and founders

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ADHD Productivity: The System I Built After GTD Failed Me

Jan 15, 2025

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ADHD Productivity: The System I Built After GTD Failed Me

GTD doesn't work for ADHD brains. The energy-aware productivity system I built instead, hyperfocus scheduling, AI processing, and the workflow I use to ship.

Jan 15, 2025 · 12 min

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I Have 73 Browser Tabs Open. ADHD Made Me a Better Architect.

Five ADHD cognitive traits mapped to real systems architecture patterns: pattern recognition, parallel processing, novelty seeking, and chaos resilience.

Dec 21, 2025 · 16 min

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Claude for ADHD: The Coding Workflow I Built for My Brain

Claude for ADHD: the 5-step coding workflow I built to beat task-initiation paralysis and context-switching. The exact CLAUDE.md system I use daily.

Feb 8, 2026 · 12 min

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