by Kourosh | Apr 5, 2024 | ADHD & Wandering Minds, Blog, On Mind, On Play and Productivity, Writings
When a list overwhelms, you might think the trouble is the work itself. But that’s not always the case. On my first days as a resident physician, I worked on the inpatient medical floor. It was a terribly overwhelming experience. Something goes wrong somewhere,...
by Kourosh | Mar 29, 2024 | ADHD & Wandering Minds, Blog, On Mind, Writings
What do you do when everything around you is making your decisions for you?
by Kourosh | Mar 22, 2024 | ADHD & Wandering Minds, Blog, On Mind, On Technology, Writings
The Seductive Power of Tools Tools are powerful. They help us bring our visions to reality. Turn a key, and a lock opens. Press play on a music app, and lovely noises come out. Ask an AI to write something, and words flow onto the screen. As I write now with...
by Kourosh | Mar 15, 2024 | ADHD & Wandering Minds, Blog, On Mind, Writings
Whether preparing taxes, preparing a report, or taking out the garbage, we might find ourselves waiting “until it’s really important.”
Why do something that’s not important now? It’ll be important later.
The logic seems fairly solid. The trouble is most things are not about straight logic…
by Kourosh | Mar 8, 2024 | ADHD & Wandering Minds, Blog, On Mind, On Play and Productivity, Writings
We cannot do everything we wish. Such is the human condition. But we can create structures, whether in words, lists, gadgets, and more, to hold things aside while we focus on the moment. Any system we use to manage our work or play should be able to reliably hold the...