Dropped the ADHD manual to a dollar for the first 20 readers. So far: quiet. That's the part nobody posts. You ship the thing and the world doesn't notice on day one. Still glad it's out. Slow is fine. Hidden was the problem.

Day 2 after launching my first product. Sales so far: zero. And right on cue, the voice shows up. "It's not good enough. You're not good enough. Go build something else." Here's what I'm learning to say back: that's not data. That's ADHD rejection sensitivity reading silence as a verdict. Two days in is not a referendum on the work. It's two days. Still here. Still shipping.

I shipped the ADHD manual two weeks ago and then did the most ADHD thing possible: told almost no one. So I'm fixing that, the loud way. For the first 20 people, pay what you want from $1. The whole thing. Every prompt I actually run to get my brain off the start line. No catch. Pay more later if it helps you, or don't. After 20 it goes back to normal.

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Running on AI: The ADHD Operating Manual

Your brain can architect a brilliant system in its head, then fail to publish one post about it for six weeks. You know what to do. You want to do ...

I put every prompt I use to get my ADHD brain unstuck into one file. Task initiation, decision paralysis, the 9am freeze, working memory. The actual prompts I run, not theory. It's free. Take it here:

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The ADHD AI Prompt Library

These are the actual prompts I run to get my ADHD brain moving. Starting a task when I'm frozen. Breaking decision paralysis. Holding the thread wh...

If it helps and you want the why behind each one, the full manual is right there. Name your price.

I shipped something a week early last month. I have never been early to anything in my life. I'm 47 and ADHD, "early" is not a word my brain produces. It wasn't discipline. I just moved the executive function out of my head and into a system, and let an AI run the boring half. The whole method is the manual. Pay what you want 👇 shop.cyberfreedom.org/l/adhd-ai-operating-manual

Everyone selling you AI for your ADHD skips one part: for a brain like ours, it can quietly make things worse before it makes them better. Mine did. For about a month I had a brilliant new way to look busy and dodge every hard decision. I literally sell the manual on this, so let me tell on myself. For months I'd come in from a work session and my wife would ask how it went, what I got done today. Same answer every time: still on the big project, nearly there. "You've been nearly there for a while now." I knew. But in my head it genuinely was almost done. That gap, between almost-done in my head and nothing actually shipped, slowly turned "how'd it go today?" into a question neither of us enjoyed. Here's what I didn't say out loud: it was all infrastructure. Scaffolding and systems to help me do the work, while the actual work, the thing another human could buy or use, never got made. Two projects I could talk about in detail for months, and nobody could ever buy either one. An ADHD brain might be the worst possible customer for AI, and I say that as one. Infinitely responsive, endlessly novel, always awake at 1am when you are. The pattern was already there. AI just poured petrol on it. Now I had brilliant help on tap, so surely this time it really was almost done. Trap one: the loop that feels like work. Two-hour conversations with an AI that felt like deep thinking, then I'd look up with nothing I could show anyone. A long session, plenty of engagement, nothing at the end of it. The productive-feeling cousin of doom-scrolling, and the AI will never once tell you to stop. Trap two, and this is where it got embarrassing: building the system instead of using it. I wanted to run a new AI agent. I've got a security background, and a lot of these agents ship with great gaping holes, so of course I had to do it "properly" first. I'd been bookmarking everything on it for weeks, so I spent three days turning those notes into a perfect runbook. A job that should have taken an hour. I did use the runbook in the end. Building the agent the normal way would still have been faster. Trap three: handing the AI your decisions, then refusing to take them. I'd write five prompts for five models, then synthesise the answers, then build a layer to synthesise the syntheses. I'm not joking. I synthesised the synthesis. Re-prompting fifteen times, chasing the 'almost' draft, asking "what should I do today?" and feeling busy while it handed my tab-soup back as a tidy essay. That's not deciding. That's moving the paralysis somewhere shinier. What actually pulled me out was one rule. Every AI session has to end with something that left the building: a draft, a decision, something I actually shipped. Never "that was interesting." And I stopped asking it to decide for me. I make it put the single best option on the first line, and I take that one. The strangest part is what happened after. Once that governor lived outside my head, the same tool that dug the hole was the one that got me out. None of it came from willpower. At 47 I've got about as much of that as I had at 17. Now there are two questions I can't dodge. Before I build anything: am I doing the work, or hiding from it? At the end of the day: did I ship, or did I just engage? So that's the warning label I stuck inside my own book. The manual is 12 of these failure modes, each with the actual AI workflow that fixes it. The one I just walked you through is a whole chapter on its own. Pay what you want, from $9: shop.cyberfreedom.org/l/adhd-ai-operating-manual

One ADHD tactic that's saved me hours: never start from a blank page. Ever. I make the AI draft the bad first version, then I just react to it. Reacting is easy. Creating is the wall. The manual is 12 of these, written for an ADHD brain: shop.cyberfreedom.org/l/adhd-ai-operating-manual PWYW, $9 or $18.

People keep telling me using AI for my ADHD is "cheating." A wheelchair isn't cheating at walking. Glasses aren't cheating at seeing. AI is a prosthetic for the executive function I was born short on. That reframe is the spine of the manual I just shipped: shop.cyberfreedom.org/l/adhd-ai-operating-manual

The hardest part of my day used to be 9am. Not the work. Starting the work. I'd sit there, 14 tabs open, frozen, until the lunch guilt kicked in. What fixed it wasn't discipline. It was handing the first move to an AI. I wrote the whole system down 👇 shop.cyberfreedom.org/l/adhd-ai-operating-manual Pay what you want.

Launched my first product in years yesterday. Spent today fighting the urge to "improve" it. That's the ADHD pattern: the dopamine lives in the next thing, never the shipped thing. So I'm doing the boring, correct move. Leaving it alone. Telling a few more people. Not adding a chapter at midnight. If you've got finished work you keep almost launching: today's a good day to just post it.

Yesterday I shipped a manual on using AI as a prosthetic for ADHD. What I didn't mention in the launch post: there are nine other finished products on my disk that have never met a customer. Research, design, refine, get distracted by a shinier project. That's the loop. This manual was built to break it, using the exact workflows it teaches. Here's how it actually got out the door 🧵 Rule 1: nothing starts from a blank page. The blank page wins every staring contest. So the AI drafts everything. Chapters, posts, plans. My job is reviewing and deciding. "Write chapter 4" is a wall. "Read this draft and mark three things" is a 20-minute task I can actually start. Rule 2: every task is 30 minutes max, with a binary finish line. Not "work on the manual". It's "approve or reject these two paragraphs". Done or not done. No case for my brain to reopen at 11pm. Rule 3: one bounded review pass, then ship. Old me would still be reordering chapters in October. Possibly alphabetically. The rule was one read-through as a buyer, fix what's marked, build, list. Scope bends. The date doesn't. The result: drafted in days, reviewed in mornings (9 to 12, the only hours my brain reliably shows up), shipped a week ahead of deadline. I have never been a week early to anything in my life. That's not discipline suddenly showing up at 47. The executive function just lives in the system now instead of in me. The whole method is the product: the prompts, the daily structure, the failure modes (task initiation, hyperfocus extraction, the 9am freeze... the greatest hits). Pay what you want, from $9.

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Running on AI: The ADHD Operating Manual

Your brain can architect a brilliant system in its head, then fail to publish one post about it for six weeks. You know what to do. You want to do ...

The single trick from the manual I use most: I never ask AI "what should I do today?" With ADHD that question just moves the paralysis somewhere else. Instead I give it the dump — every loose thread in my head — and ask it to hand me back ONE next physical action. Not a plan. One action I can start in the next two minutes. The executive function my brain won't reliably produce, borrowed from a machine that always has it. Whole method's in the manual. Pay what you want.

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Running on AI: The ADHD Operating Manual

Your brain can architect a brilliant system in its head, then fail to publish one post about it for six weeks. You know what to do. You want to do ...

I have ADHD. I'm 47, diagnosed last year. For three decades I was sure the right system would finally fix my brain. None of it stuck. I was the bug, not the systems. Then I worked out how to use AI as a prosthetic for the executive function my brain doesn't reliably produce. So I wrote the manual, using the exact workflows it describes. It's shorter and rougher than I planned, because the planned version would never have shipped. The fact that you can read it is the proof it works. Pay what you want 👇

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Running on AI: The ADHD Operating Manual

Your brain can architect a brilliant system in its head, then fail to publish one post about it for six weeks. You know what to do. You want to do ...

We don't have an attention deficit. We have attention dysregulation. The difference matters: every productivity system that asks you to "just decide to focus" is fighting wiring it can't beat. The ones that work manufacture novelty, urgency, interest, or consequence.

I've been writing a manual for the past two weeks. It's called The ADHD AI Operating Manual. Six failure modes of an ADHD brain, six AI workflows that route around them. Every prompt included. Wrote it because I needed it to ship the other things I'm trying to ship.

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