01GETTING THINGS DONE?
Why classic GTD is rubbish when you have ADHD
A trusted system is lovely. But what if the unreliable component is the person who has to look at it?
8 min read
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An ADHD field guide from inside the fog
ADHD?
Me too!
No miracle mornings. No colour-coded rebirth at 5 a.m. Just honest notes on work, family, medication, therapy and the curious experience of watching yourself ignore your own excellent advice.
This is not a productivity blog.
Productivity blogs are written by people who apparently put things down and later remember where. This is about the gap between knowing exactly what to do and being completely unable to do it — plus the occasional glorious moment when the right tool turns the lights on.
THE ACTUAL WORDS
From the wonky desk
Ideas, experiments and dispatches. Some useful. Some merely true. None written at five in the morning after an ice bath.
02THE RESTLESS BRAIN
I wish I was bored
On the strange gift — and exhausting curse — of always finding something more stimulating than the thing in front of you.
6 min read
03WORKING LIFE
How ChatGPT made me ten times more productive*
*On a good day. Terms, conditions, rabbit holes and occasional hallucinations apply.
9 min readAllegedly coming soon
LNOT A GURU
ABOUT THE AUTHOR, SAFELY
I want you to call me Loretta.
It is, of course, not my real name. It is a nod to Life of Brian and a useful reminder not to take the author too seriously. I’m not a doctor, coach or productivity guru. I’m a working parent with ADHD, a dry sense of humour and mounting evidence that most advice was written for an entirely different species. This is lived experience, not medical advice. Frankly, some of it may barely qualify as advice.
- ↳ Work & executive dysfunction
- ↳ Medication & therapy
- ↳ Parenting without exposure
- ↳ Tools that actually help
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Privacy, because other people didn’t volunteer for my blog
Loretta is a pseudonym. Other people may also be given pseudonyms, combined into composites, or have incidental details changed. No surnames, precise locations, employers, schools or recognisable family details will be published. The stories stay true; the identifying breadcrumbs go in the bin.