When Words Run Faster Than Thought
When words run faster than thought, clarity drowns in the noise. This piece unpacks why ADHD turns communication into performance—and how structure can turn self-doubt into design.
Executive Function Theory: The Architecture of Self-Regulation
Explains how executive functions enable focus, planning, and self-control — the mental framework that converts thought into action and maintains adaptive balance under pressure.
Emotional Regulation in ADHD: Feeling ≠ Failing
Emotional regulation in ADHD is the challenge of managing emotional intensity and recovery time. It reframes “overreaction” as a neurological lag, highlighting skill-building as a path to resilience and self-trust.
Manual of Me: Operating Instructions for Collaboration
A living self-manual that codifies how you think, work, and communicate — transforming introspection into a collaborative operating system that builds empathy and trust.
Rosenberg: Non-violent Communication
A communication philosophy by Marshall Rosenberg that replaces blame and coercion with empathy and clarity by focusing on observations, feelings, needs, and respectful requests.
Applause Without Alignment: The Cost of Performative Clarity
Product and UX speak the same language until performance gets in the way. When confidence replaces clarity, alignment turns into theatre — and trust becomes the first casualty.
Psychological Safety: Team climate & permission to diverge
Psychological Safety is a team climate framework that defines the conditions for interpersonal risk-taking — enabling candour, dissent, and learning without fear of ridicule or punishment.
Aristotle’s Rhetorical Triangle: Balancing logic, emotion & credibility
A foundational communication framework mapping three persuasive appeals — ethos, pathos & logos — showing how credibility, emotion & logic interact to shape trust and influence.
The Fear Behind the Label: What ADHD Diagnosis Might Take Away
A first-person field report from the edge of clarity — one professional’s honest account of how the pursuit of an ADHD diagnosis can trigger as much anxiety as relief, and why real progress begins with self-authored design.
We’ve Automated Belief — and Lost Trust
We fear that AI video will make it impossible to tell what’s real. The truth is harder to face — the machines aren’t breaking reality, we are.