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For context on how my brain works, see Working with an AuDHD Brain. Here is the smallest version of my entire productivity system: task add "Write the intro" +next task 1 start That is it. The task is recorded, the clock is running, and I can see both in under a second without touching a mouse. Everything else in this post builds on top of those two lines. The stack is taskwarrior for task management, timewarrior for time tracking, and vit as a vim-style interface on top. Keyboard-first, terminal-native, plain text on disk. ...

For a long time, the cloud was just the water I swam in. I provisioned managed Kubernetes, clicked through the console, pasted a Terraform module someone else wrote, and shipped. It worked. Billing landed every month, the dashboards stayed green, and I never once asked what was actually running underneath. I trusted it the way you trust a lift in a building. You press the button and the doors open. ...

For a long time I thought the problem was me. I have AuDHD: the combination of autism and ADHD. Specifically ADHD-PI, the inattentive variant, without the hyperactivity most people picture when they hear ADHD. For years I treated that as a defect to overcome. I bought the planners. I read the productivity books. I told myself that next Monday I’d finally be disciplined. This post is the story of how that approach failed, what I built instead, and why the systems I ended up depending on turn out to be good engineering for anyone. ...