The ADHD Skills Lab

You've been told you pivot too fast. This research suggests your timing might be right.
A 2024 Royal Society paper tested how long people stay in a depleting resource before moving to a new one, using a model from ecology called the marginal value theorem. The prediction was that ADHD traits would cause people to leave too soon.
The data found the opposite. ADHD participants left patches closer to the mathematically optimal point and ended up with more total reward. Skye and Robbie break down the bias built into the original prediction and what it means for telling the difference between a smart pivot and flailing.
What We Cover:
The 2024 study and the foraging game researchers built
The marginal value theorem and what "optimal" leaving looks like
Why the prediction assumed ADHD would underperform
What the actual results showed about exit timing
How to tell a strategic pivot from impulsive flailing
 P.S. Losing work because the admin layer around your business can't keep up with you? Invisible Systems is a 90-day done-for-you sprint where I (Skye) extract the processes from your head, build the operating layer, and find the right person to run it. Six spots left at the founding price, book a call at https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

You get bored with the offer that's working, so you go build a new one. James Wedmore has run the same program and the same live event for ten years and says that's the entire reason it grew. He explains the difference between a real "this isn't working" and a feeling that just shows up the moment things get hard. He also breaks down why he became a bottleneck in his own business, what changed when he got specific about role clarity, and why he keeps his identity and worth separate from his revenue numbers.
What We Cover:
Why James calls novelty-chasing "first gear" and how it traps founders for years
The test for telling a real pivot signal from a hard-moment feeling
What changed when his business went from $2M to $10M in one year
Why role clarity exposed the real reason he couldn't delegate
How separating his identity from his revenue numbers changed everything
Connect With James Wedmore
https://www.jameswedmoretraining.com/
https://www.instagram.com/jameswedmore/?hl=en
 P.S. Losing work because the admin layer around your business can't keep up with you? Invisible Systems is a 90-day done-for-you sprint where I (Skye) extract the processes from your head, build the operating layer, and find the right person to run it. Six spots left at the founding price, book a call at https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

You're exhausted all day, then suddenly wired at 10pm. That's not random. Research suggests it's tied to a delayed circadian rhythm that's common in ADHD.
In this Research Recap, Skye and Will unpack a paper examining ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder. This isn't a list of sleep hygiene tips. It's a look at what's actually different in the ADHD body's clock, and why typical advice misses it.
Understanding the delay changes how you plan your day, not just your bedtime.
What We Cover:
Why energy peaks late even when sleep is the goal
Daytime melatonin levels found in kids with ADHD
How light therapy and timing affect circadian reset
Melatonin dosing research (less works better than more)
What ultradian rhythms are and how they differ from circadian ones
Want more of Will's work?
Visit HackingYourADHD.com or subscribe on YouTube.
 P.S. Losing work because the admin layer around your business can't keep up with you? Invisible Systems is a 90-day done-for-you sprint where I (Skye) extract the processes from your head, build the operating layer, and find the right person to run it. Six spots left at the founding price, book a call at https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

You've reread the same paragraph three times and still couldn't tell anyone what it said.
Skye and Robbie return to the DSM-5 for Part 2 of their criteria breakdown, this time on criterion B: difficulty sustaining attention. They work through real examples, rereading pages, checking out of meetings, losing focus on audiobooks even at double speed, and land on why none of it happens during a good movie or video game.
The conversation distinguishes between attention that drifts because a task is boring and attention that locks in because something is stimulating, and why that distinction matters more than effort or discipline. If you've ever wondered why you can sit through eight hours of a game but not eight minutes of a report, this explains the mechanism.
What We Cover:
Why criterion B shows up in reading, meetings, and lectures specifically
Why audiobooks don't solve the problem, even at 2x speed
Why games and gripping movies don't trigger the same drift
The difference between voluntary distraction and involuntary attention loss
Why removing stimulation (a quiet room) often backfires
 P.S. Losing work because the admin layer around your business can't keep up with you? Invisible Systems is a 90-day done-for-you sprint where I (Skye) extract the processes from your head, build the operating layer, and find the right person to run it. Six spots left at the founding price, book a call at https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

You spend years building workarounds for your own brain, then realize you could build your company the same way.
Chris Wang did exactly that.
As co-founder and CEO of Shimmer, an ADHD coaching platform that has delivered more than 90,000 coaching sessions, Chris was diagnosed with ADHD at 28 while building the company. Instead of treating her personal systems and her business systems as separate problems, she applied the same coaching frameworks, structure, automation, and strength-based development directly to how Shimmer operates.
In this conversation, Chris shares what that looked like in practice: what she automated, what stayed human, how she structured fundraising as an ADHD founder, and why she stopped trying to build the company differently than she was learning to manage herself.
Connect With Chris Wang
Chris is on instagram: @adhd.christal and you can learn more about Shimmer at www.shimmer.care
What We Cover
Why Chris applied her ADHD coaching framework to company operations
The automation that removed admin work for coaches
How she decides what should stay human and what should be automated
Her fundraising system for managing outreach, follow-ups, and rejection
Why strength-based delegation changed how her team works
How personal ADHD systems became Shimmer's operating model
 P.S. Losing work because the admin layer around your business can't keep up with you? Invisible Systems is a 90-day done-for-you sprint where I (Skye) extract the processes from your head, build the operating layer, and find the right person to run it. Six spots left at the founding price, book a call at https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/