Productivity

I have AuDHD — the combination of autism and ADHD. Specifically ADHD-PI: the inattentive variant, without the hyperactivity most people associate with ADHD. This isn’t an excuse. It’s context. Because the way I work — the obsession with automation, the preference for async communication, the hours I invest in tooling — doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s the result of years of experimenting with what works for a brain that isn’t built for the standard office world. ...

As a kid I had a word for things that fascinated me: unbreakable. Not “indestructible” — that implies something never breaks. Unbreakable is different. It means something even broken still works. I remember exactly when that fascination began. A photo of an A-10 Thunderbolt II, returned from a mission. Half the wing gone. Tail in tatters. Fuselage full of holes. And yet that thing had brought its pilot home. That’s not luck. That’s design. ...