Productivity

GPG is one of those tools everyone keeps meaning to learn and never does. The docs are a wall of text, the terminology is its own dialect, and the error messages are cryptic in both senses of the word. I put it off for years myself. The thing is, you keep bumping into it. GPG sits under pass, under signed git commits, under encrypted email, under verifying that the binary you just downloaded is the one the maintainer actually shipped. If you care about owning your security instead of trusting a vendor to handle it for you, you end up here eventually. ...

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 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. ...