I have more ideas than most people know what to do with. For most of my life, the hard part wasn't coming up with them, it was trying to act on them. It was what had to happen in the middle: organizing, intiating, following through.
I'm a physician-scientist by training and a cancer researcher. It wasn't until halfway through med school that I was diagnosed with ADHD. That was late enough that I had already built an entire identity around compensating for it, and internalized a lot of shame about the ways my brain was different.
One day, I sat down with an AI and vented my frustrations. I wrote about the fatigue of battling uphill every day just to get things done. For the first time, I got a clear and organized view of how my brain actually worked: my need for quick feedback loops, how AI functions as an executive function scaffold, and what it looks like to work with my brain instead of against it.
That one convervation was a breakthrough for me. The Dopamine Cat is what followed.
What this place is
This isn't a productivity blog. It won't tell you to wake up at 5am (I certainly don't) or just try harder.
It's a record of what happens when a detail-obsessed, systems-thinking mind finally has tools that can keep up with it. Each post starts with a real problem like needing a custom productivity plan, creating a new desert, designing a skincare routine, or setting up my home office. I take you through the actual process of solving the problem with AI as a thinking partner.
The word "partner" is key here, because it's the back and forth that gets you to where neither of you would have landed on your own.
The science shows up when it's useful. But what drives this is something simpler: I have more ideas than I ever thought I'd get to act on. Now I'm acting on them.
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