The Operating Manual
Thirty-one short videos on building a career and a working life around how your brain actually works, not how you're told it should. You don't have to watch them in order — some come in small bundles, but mostly you can pick up whichever page you need. This is the manual I wish someone had handed me.
4 episodes · updated 8 August 2026Before you apply anywhere, write these nine lines
Three tasks that fuel you, three that drain you, three places you actually function. Nine lines, ten minutes — your filter for every job from here on.
One lane, seven days
ADHD overwhelm isn't too little motivation — it's too many open plans, none of them getting a next action. Pick one lane for seven days.
If you can't picture your hands doing it, it's not a task yet
"Work on my career" isn't a task — it's a category. "Send one application" isn't either; it's five tasks in a coat. The real step: open the job ad.
Stop assessing your strengths. Go find the evidence.
When something's easy for you it doesn't feel like a skill — it feels like the baseline. Three places to find the strengths masking hid.
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