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Tips for brains like yours

ADHD strategies, focus techniques, and gentle productivity tips. Written by Nori, for you.

Body Doubling for ADHD: Why Having Someone There Actually Helps

Why does work feel possible the moment someone else sits nearby? The strange, well-documented logic of body doubling for ADHD brains, and how to try it.

Dec 28, 20257 min read

ADHD Focus

ADHD Time Blindness: Why Time Feels Broken

How long is ten minutes? If your honest answer is 'it depends,' meet time blindness: the ADHD time perception gap, its causes, and tools that help.

Dec 22, 20257 min read

Mental Wellness

The Wall of Awful: Why Easy Tasks Feel Impossible with ADHD

The task takes five minutes. The dread took years to build. Brendan Mahan's Wall of Awful explains the gap between easy tasks and impossible starts.

Dec 20, 20258 min read

ADHD Focus

Why You Can't Start Tasks with ADHD: What Actually Helps

Task initiation runs on dopamine, and ADHD brains need more of it to get rolling. The science of why starting is brutal, plus ways to lower the bar.

Dec 19, 20259 min read

A dopamine menu showing tasks sorted by energy level: rest, low, medium, and high

ADHD Focus

How to Build a Dopamine Menu for Your ADHD Brain

A dopamine menu sorts tasks by what they cost you, not how urgent they look. Build one in ten minutes and stop staring at an unpickable list.

Dec 18, 20257 min read

Productivity

Why Your To-Do List Isn't Working (What To Try Instead)

Research suggests 41% of to-do list items never get done. The fix is not more discipline. It's sorting tasks by energy cost instead of importance.

Dec 16, 20257 min read

Mental Wellness

You're Not Lazy. You're Exhausted.

Lazy people don't agonize over the things they're not doing. You do. The research on ADHD fatigue points somewhere kinder: you're running on empty.

Dec 14, 20257 min read