Real tools, real stories, and a few messy insights to help you make your brain your best tool — exploring ADHD, creativity, and the art of thriving with a neurodivergent mind.
creativityI had ideas bigger than my ability my whole life. The skill that actually built everything was not making the thing. It was finding the people who could. TAGS: adhd, creativity, collaboration, teams
neuroscienceFor decades we were told ADHD is a deficit to manage. New 2026 research tells a stranger, better story, and it lines up with what a lot of us have felt our whole lives.
burnoutI spent five years burying the creative instincts that built everything, chasing funding that kept running the other way. Here's what it cost, and what pulled me back.
creative mindA kid in Thunder Bay, a game he hated, and a rumor he never let go. Thirty years on it ended up in the Smithsonian, all because his brain forgets nothing.
belongingFinding your people feels like coming home. Then you catch your tribe drawing the same borders the bullies once drew around you.
teamsTwenty years running a 250-person creative agency taught me the chaos wasn't a bug. It was six kinds of ADHD brain, and once I could name them, I ran them like a symphony.
boundariesI told myself the 2am idea-bombs were productivity. They were just fires my team and my family had to put out by morning. On passion with no off-switch, and what it costs.
adhdI built a creative agency around neurodivergent brilliance and hard celebration. I missed what the culture was costing people. Here's what I'd do differently now.
shameADHD shame isn't a bad attitude. It's a reflex built by years of smashing into a world that wasn't wired for you. Here's how it installs, and how to undo it.
foundersWe were growing like wildfire and wanted a CEO who could scale it. They came charming, credentialed, and vouched-for. The one who actually worked wasn't a hire at all.
Hi, I'm Mike. Another guy who didn't know he had ADHD until later in life. Now I do my thinking out loud here, for the people whose brains feel like pinball machines too.
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