I just received the email confirming that one of my sessions I submitted, "Your Brain Isn't Broken. Your Systems Are", has been accepted to Sloss Tech this year! Below is a synopsis of what I'll be talking about. If you're around Sloss Tech, I hope you'll be able to attend. If not, I will see what I can do about getting a copy of a video of it and posting it here at the very least. Thank you to everyone for your amazing feedback and help over these past couple months. It means the world to me. <3 ---- I was diagnosed with AuDHD (Autism + ADHD) in my late thirties, after 15 years of building operations systems for other people's organizations. Turns out I was building the external structure my brain needed all along -- I just didn't know why. When I started building cognitive architecture with AI, every neurodivergent accommodation became a design feature. Scope creep checks that fire automatically. Perfectionism circuit breakers. Context-switching protection. Accountability systems that don't rely on willpower. The architecture doesn't fix my brain. It compensates for how it actually works. Here's the thing founders don't talk about: the traits that make building hard -- hyperfocus that distorts priority, pattern recognition that outruns execution, the inability to stop optimizing -- are exactly the traits this architecture was designed to support. I've since deployed this approach for other operators and founders, and each one's working style gets encoded into the architecture, not overridden by it. Founders are disproportionately neurodivergent. Only a few people worldwide are building AI systems that treat that as an asset instead of a liability. This talk is about what that looks like in practice -- including what still breaks.

There are a couple of great academic events going on locally (here in Alabama) next week. The big one for me is the AL AI Innovation Summit - to which my poster presentation has been ACCEPTED!!! I'm excited to bring the idea of cognitive architecture and a working prototype to the summit next week. Also - over the weekend, I'm working on finishing getting my own cognitive architecture online, with the ability for others to use! There will be free trials available for people to be able to try it to see if it's right for them. I hope that all of you will be able to try it out. And as a thank you for being a part of this community - I'd like to extend the free trial for each of you for an additional two weeks. More details and an announcement post to come...

Here's my win: I caught myself about to spend 40 minutes formatting a spreadsheet and stopped. Asked Claude to do it. Took 3 minutes. That's not impressive. It's not a "10x productivity hack." It's just 37 minutes I got back because I noticed I was doing instead of thinking. The small wins are the ones that compound. The big flashy AI breakthroughs make great LinkedIn posts. But the actual quality-of-life improvement? It's the 50 tiny moments where you stop, redirect, and let the system handle what the system should handle. What's your smallest win this week? Don't overthink it. The more boring, the better.