When Leadership Shows Up Without a Title
Couple of days ago I was travelling on a ferry to see my family ahead of Christmas. Windy, cold, the deck mostly empty. I’d gone out for a walk when I saw someone fall down on the level below me. Straight away something didn’t look right, and I went straight down. With a couple of […]
ADHD Isn’t a Minor Inconvenience
It’s 11:52pm and I’m sat at the kitchen table arguing with a form. It’s not complicated. Name, address, NI number, a couple of tick boxes about consent. The sort of thing most adults complete between sips of tea. I’ve opened the page six times today and each time my brain has reacted like I’ve asked […]
Relief, Rage, and Everything After
When the psychologist said “ADHD,” I felt two things at once: relief that washed over me like finally putting down something heavy, and a kind of anger I wasn’t expecting. The relief part makes sense. All those years of “why can’t I just…” finally had an answer. Time blindness. That thing where starting a task […]
Why Starting Feels Harder Than Finishing
There’s a presentation I need to create. I know the subject cold. I’ve even been looking forward to sharing it. Then I sit down to start and my brain turns to quicksand. Cursor blinking like a metronome of shame. Ten minutes later I’m reorganising my desktop icons by colour and convincing myself that counts as […]
Why My Brain Keeps Forgetting to Fill the Screen wash
For the last two weeks, I’ve been meaning to put screenwash in the car. I’ve remembered it in the shower (apparently my brain’s idea of a boardroom), during work calls, while playing with the kids, mowing the lawn… and of course, while driving. But when I’m actually in a position to do it? The thought […]
ADHD Isn’t A New Productivity Hack – It’s A Nervous System Running Hot
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 […]
ADHD Masking… Which Eye Do I Look At?
First things… this isn’t the fancy dress kind of masks, these are the ones we slap on to pass as “normal”… My pet mask: Eye-contact ping-pong I process spoken words better if I let my eyes wander. Society insists eye contact equals honesty. Result: My brain runs a pointless background app… Look at the left […]