Why Tech Leaders Should Care
Your sprint board is full, your IM pings never sleep, and half your engineers look like they live on cold brew and existential dread. Cue LinkedIn telling you ADHD is a “super‑power”that turns humans into shipping machines.
Cute. Also nonsense.
ADHD isn’t a trendy performance upgrade – it’s a different operating system altogether, one that’s been throttled by bad assumptions and worse tooling. If you lead teams, ship code, or pretend to understand your engineer’s latest update, you need to know the difference.
What We Used To Believe – And Who That Broke
Remember when we thought computers were “boys toys” and mobile phones were for yuppies? Same energy here.
Common Myths
- ADHD = hyper kids who can’t sit still.
- Grown‑ups grow out of it.
- It’s just bad parenting or too much TikTok.
Every time this story gets told, adults driving billion‑pound projects are left untreated, labelled “distracted” or “difficult”, and quietly burnt out.
