Field Notes — the manual, in installments
One named ADHD pattern per note: what it is, why your brain does it, and the enterprise-grade fix — sized for one human, zero willpower required.
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A bad session costs the session. The shame costs the week. Why a small lapse gets recoded as a lost goal, what 162 adults with ADHD said about criticism becoming self-criticism, and the delivery-room fix: variance reporting with no punishment term. With an 18-second animation.
read note 006 →91.6% of adults with ADHD mask their traits, and a thematic analysis of 39,750 r/ADHD comments names what it costs at work. The mechanism is conversion work — and in project terms, unbudgeted scope. Five fixes that need no disclosure. With a 20-second animation.
read note 005 →New CHI 2026 research on 27 neurodivergent students: blockers deepen shame, and switching yours off is often regulation rather than weakness. The one design test every focus app fails — plus four fixes. With a 21-second animation.
read note 004 →Part of your attention stays stuck to whatever you left unfinished — and with ADHD it doesn't let go. The mechanism (Leroy, 2009), a residue simulator you can poke, and the crumb protocol that closes the loop.
read note 003 →Lists rot because they're append-only shame ledgers with no exit path. Five backlog rituals from a decade of enterprise delivery — including the amnesty move: task bankruptcy. With a 20-second animation.
read note 002 →One appointment on the calendar and the whole morning evaporates. The mechanism (your day has exactly one landmark), and four scheduling moves that fixed it — no willpower involved.
read note 001 →