Entry — Field Notes

Field Notes

Observations, experiments, lessons learned, and questions worth exploring — not every idea belongs on a business website.

A dimly lit home office at night, two monitors showing code and an empty desk chair, with an open door looking through to a Masonic lodge room and its square and compasses banner
Perspective

09 / 09

The Meeting Is What I Lost

Why an ADHD brain reads a task list as 50 emergencies, and the lodge meeting I lost because work had taken up all the room in my head.

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A vintage typewriter and a modern laptop side by side on a wooden desk, the laptop screen showing a glowing network of connected nodes
Workbench

09 / 03

The Writing Was Never the Hard Part

Why AI works as a force multiplier in my content process and falls apart as a replacement for it, and what that says about the layoff headlines.

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An old CRT computer displaying code next to a modern laptop displaying a clean website design
Workbench

07 / 16

What Was Old Is New

Taking over a 12-year-old hand-coded site, finding it bogged down by unused template bloat, and what that taught me about going live with Blue Star Cigars.

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An aerial view of a busy city intersection with cars, pedestrians, and cyclists all crossing at once
Perspective

07 / 15

What It's Really Like Living with Adult ADHD in a Room Full of People

A real-time breakdown of what's actually happening in an ADHD brain during an ordinary group conversation — and why it's so exhausting.

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An empty backyard swimming pool with stainless steel handrails
Perspective

07 / 14

Thrown Into the Deep End of the Pool

On being undiagnosed as a kid in the 1970s, getting my son evaluated early, and why adults are treated so differently than children when it comes to ADHD.

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Two monitors showing blue error screens on a desk buried in paper
Perspective

07 / 13

From 75 Tasks to One Diagnosis

How an undiagnosed ADHD brain handled two decades of jobs that fit its pace, until a paralyzing to-do list of 75 tasks led to a diagnosis that changed everything.

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An empty office desk with a name plate reading GUIDANCE
Perspective

07 / 12

Marching to the Beat of My Own Trauma

Growing up undiagnosed with Inattentive Type ADHD, and what I only recently learned to call Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria.

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