For people who refuse to live on default settings

Get more out of this life — with systems that survive real weeks.

Optimize your Body, Relationships, AI, and Navigation — where you are and where you're going.

Guiding principles
Optimize everything that compounds
Automate the simple so you can do the meaningful
Leverage overthinking
Practice over theory
The brAIn lenses

Four ways in

Built by an engineer who lives it every day.

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Four lenses. One life. Build what compounds — under real constraints.

Move 1
Capture what matters
Move 2
Reduce one friction
Move 3
Automate one simple loop

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A few things you can use today — no vaporware inventory.

Morning launch

A short ADHD-aware morning sequence. Interactive checklist ungated; email optional.

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Friction mapper

Name the stall, mark snags, redesign one edge — not your character.

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Field Notes

Published experiments tagged by Body, Relationships, AI, and Navigation.

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FIELD NOTES

Experiments and scars from the field — not guru gospel. Steal what works; leave the rest.

ADHD Systems

The ADHD External Brain: How to Stop Trusting Memory

A practical capture, review, and retrieval system for people whose best ideas vanish at the worst time.

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AI Leverage

How to Use AI Like a Second Executive Function

A sober workflow for using AI to plan, clarify, summarize, and reduce cognitive load without outsourcing judgment.

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ADHD Systems

Cognitive restructuring: six steps from thought to distance

A short, original walkthrough of thinking → naming → noticing → questioning → unidentifying → distancing — using “I am not enough” as the worked example. CBT/ACT-informed; not therapy.

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Same notes you read on the site — written once, sent as the Field Notes issue, archived here. Low volume. No separate newsletter format, no daily pep talks. Unsubscribe anytime.

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