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DawnLines: A Gentler Morning Journal Routine

The idea of three pages... seems too much, first thing in the morning. I started wondering if there might be gentler on-ramp into brainfulness...

SCIENCE! Shows Notebooks are Best for ADHD Brains

The TL;DR for those who are not quite as brain nerdy is that between taking notes by typing, writing notes on a tablet, or making notes in a physical notebook, the most brain activity (related to comprehension and retention) came from good old dead-tree-and-ink.

Five Reasons You Should Buy That Cool Notebook

In a perfect world, you wouldn’t need an excuse. The poet Toi Derricotte’s told us already: “joy is an act of resistance” and Mari Kondo said that things that spark joy are worth keeping, so if picking up that Oasis notebook from ProFolio makes that dopamine flow, more power to ya!

The First ADHD Open Space Zine!

Part of moving away from other platforms like Substack and Medium has to include making it worth your while. Sure, getting the posts via email is fun, but how about something you can actually hold in your hands. I've been enjoying learning about, reading, and creating "zines&

The Creator Economy is Rigged Against ADHDers

We thrive on novelty. An interesting niche is just a dopamine surge away from becoming a cage, a pit, a trap! We may carry our hyperfocus-enabled expertise with us, but we don’t want to share it any more — not when there’s that Shiny New Subject that we’re learning about.

I'm Not Time-Blind. You're Time-Delusional.

Things you learn in moments of extreme grief, part one. ⚱️Content warning: death. My family recently had a huge and sudden loss on September 6, and I'm still in the midst of dealing with the immediate effects. The long term effects will be with me forever. But when

How to Keep Chaotic Clutter from the Trap of Horizontal Surfaces.

Tables, desks, counters — they are magnets for the detritus of life. This is how you fight back. Look at your desk. Or your dining room table. Or the end table next to the couch you’re sitting in. Here, I’ll show you mine: Pretty cluttered, right? And it is

Everything I Needed to Know About Managing Adult ADHD I Learned From Star Trek

I am the voyages of the Braincraft Gray. My lifelong mission: to eke out good life and well-thought-out decisions. To boldly go where my brain has never gone before… (Cue theremin and whooshing spaceship noises!)

“Breakdice”: Offloading Your Executive Function to Recharge Your Brain

#NoAI required; just physics, paper, and tape.

The Axioms of ADHD

The first principles discovered in three years of observing my brain.

If You Have ADHD, You Need to Know RFK Jr’s Plans for People on Meds

Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash Don’t panic…yet. But maybe get ready. I’ve resisted writing much about the election, because…well, it certainly didn’t go the way I expected or wanted, and that is still a sore spot. However, when I saw the news that Trump

The ODD Way I'm Leveraging my ADHD to Stop Being Late to Everything

A little inner competition against the alarm and my time agnosia doesn't matter

Tolerance, Tolerations, and ADHD Sensitivity

It’s the little things that really suck your life away. In Adam Savage’s sort-of-autobiography Every Tool’s a Hammer, he dedicates an entire chapter to the engineering concept of “tolerances”. He’s using the word in the context of measurement — that is, how precisely a machine part has

The Einstein-Ashe Formula for ADHD Management

Which I totally made up as the reason why I can't have fancy things.