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An audio version of my first attempt at writing fiction in 20 years.

"The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile." — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi You can experience a strange comfort at the edge of chaos. I thrive in that chaos.

This week, I made a big mistake. Someone reached out to me about something I’d shared and let me know of an error. I didn’t want to believe them and I justified my actions to myself. But when I considered their perspective with fresh eyes...

🧠💡 ADHD can give people a unique sense of intuition. There’s actually a reason for this. It has to do with our executive function, or rather, our executive dysfunction.

Do you struggle with staying focused enough to finish tasks? Sometimes you find magic and get a lot done. Other times, you struggle to make any progress at all and fall into a vicious cycle.

I've been feeling like a fraud lately. The flimsy foundations of my content creation workflows are failing. The system is down, and I'm on the verge of collapse. Maybe you can relate?

Are you surrounded by piles of books and other clutter? People with ADHD often lack a sense of object permanence, and keeping things in a piles is a way to remind yourself of their existence. Out of sight, out of mind.

Based on an atomic essay by Jesse J. Anderson.

Audio version of an atomic essay by Jesse J. Anderson.