The Architecture of Attention: Debugging the Dopamine Loop
A neurodivergent product architect learns that the hardest part of focus isn’t ignition — it’s recovery. The Architecture of Attention explores what happens when brilliance burns too bright and how to rebuild presence without dimming it.
Rejection-Sensitivity Dysphoria: The Pain of Perceived Rejection
Rejection-Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD) describes extreme emotional pain triggered by perceived rejection or criticism, often linked to ADHD. It impacts confidence, relationships, and self-worth.
Authorship, Autonomy, and the Algorithm
A reflection on how fear shapes our response to new tools — from calculators to ChatGPT — and how embracing collaboration between human and machine can redefine creativity, authorship, and ethical progress.
The Productivity Illusion of Modern Politics
We’ve built a politics of motion without movement — a system where communication has replaced governance, and performance has replaced progress. It’s time to make politics boring again.
Explainable AI for Comms: Legible Machine Logic
Explainable AI for Comms applies XAI principles to make AI decisions in communication systems transparent and trustworthy, improving oversight, reliability, and human understanding.
When Rhetoric Replaces Reality: Safety Without Truth
When systems lose linguistic integrity, they lose the ability to adapt. This essay explores how Britain’s comforting class vocabulary sustains fragility — and how a new, truth-based taxonomy could turn language back into infrastructure for change.
Safe-to-Fail Systems: Resilience by Design
Safe-to-fail systems embrace the inevitability of failure by designing for controlled degradation, resilience, and recovery — creating structures that adapt, learn, and protect from collapse.
Avoidance is not empathy
Empathy has become the new professional currency — but when it’s used to avoid discomfort rather than confront it, understanding disappears. This piece explores how performative compassion erodes clarity, from classrooms to design labs.
My brain is not a buzzword
After years of engineering my own focus systems, I finally have an official label for the mind that built them. ADHD hasn’t changed who I am — it’s simply given my methods a name. This piece is about ownership, not confession: how to hold a label without being held by it.
Engineering Compassion for a Distracted Mind
Even the best focus systems collapse under design built for distraction. This piece explores how compassion — not discipline — becomes the real architecture of attention.