#creativity

Twenty 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.

I was the kid drawing comics in the margins, getting told to snap out of it. Turns out the stare wasn't the problem. Daydreaming isn't the opposite of productivity. It's the seed of it.

I 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

I wasn't bad at learning. I was bad at learning like that. On a system built for a world that's gone, the dad who policed my homework, and the one teacher who saw me.

For 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.

Funko Pops, Munnys, way too much camera gear. I dug into the research on why ADHD creatives collect, and my crowded shelves suddenly made sense. It's dopamine, memory, and play.

Artists who rolled in at 11am, a coder who forgot to eat, a strategist muttering at a whiteboard. On paper it was insanity. In practice, we were lightning.