📚Welcome to Tech Atypically

A table of contents of themes and stories.

Welcome to Tech Atypically👋. I’m an ADHD Coach, product manager, and former neuroscience researcher. I write a weekly blog about ADHD, product management, and a neurodiverse life. Each issue includes science, stories, or strategies for regulating your ADHD.

Self-Care: Balancing Life, Work, and Side Hustles

1. Series Intro - Self-Care: Balancing Life, Work, and Side Hustles

2. Finding your why to write a weekly ADHD newsletter

3. The importance of sleep when you have ADHD

4. Exercising your muscles to ask your body what it needs when you have ADHD

5. Mastering Prioritization: Data Strategies for Work-Life Balance and Self-Care in Tech and ADHD

6. How to use Invitations to Create the Space for ADHD Self-Care

7. Redefining What Consistency Means to Practice Better Self-Care

8. Overfunctioning in Relationships: The Hidden Costs of Doing Too Much

9. Overcoming the ADHD 'Shoulds'

10. Believing in Yourself as Much as You Believe in Others

11. How Spiderman helps me have the courage to move on more and quit less

12. When Life Gives You More Time: Learning to Accept Unexpected Gifts

13. Lessons in self-care and capacity

Performance and Productivity in the Jungle Called Workplace

1. Being Seen and Heard: ADHD-Friendly Tactics for Product Managers

2. ADHD and Feedback: Navigating Rejection Sensitivity in the Workplace

3. Navigating Manager Meetings with ADHD: Active Listening & Speaking Skills

4. Optimizing Your Environment for Peak ADHD Performance

5. Navigating Unpredictability in the Workplace with ADHD: A Practical Guide to Managing Ambiguity

6. How to cultivate the courage to pursue a promotion when you have ADHD

7. Coping with Loss at Work: Navigating Grief with ADHD for Improved Mental Health and Job Performance

8. Successfully Navigating a Performance Improvement Plan with ADHD: Tips for Beating the Plan

9. Navigating a Performance Plan with ADHD: Managing Your Exit

10. Understanding and Improving Productivity as a Product Manager with ADHD

11. Preventing ADHD Overwhelm and Exhaustion by Guarding "Yes"

12. From Procrastination to Progress: A Strategy for PMs with ADHD to Conquer Large Tasks

13. Dyslexia - Understanding the Impact of Learning Disabilities on Product Managers with ADHD

14. Dyscalculia - Understanding the Impact of Learning Disabilities on Product Managers with ADHD

15. The Fear of Being Wrong: An ADHD Journey to Curiosity

16. A more neuro-inclusive way to negotiate your next role and salary

17. Building Self-Trust: How to Overcome Self-Doubt and Improve Workplace Performance

18. The Productivity and Performance Toolkit (End of series collection of strategies)

Recovering from ADHD Burnout in Big Tech

1. Emergency Kindness

2. Quitting

3. Buying Time

4. Find a New Job

5. Suicide and Suicidal Ideation

6. Confronting our Greatest Fears of our Next Job

7. How to rest and recharge without shame

8. Making Capacity for the Ones You Love

9. Keeping the House Clean

10. Understanding What You Control

11. The Hard Lesson of Learning When Changing Jobs Isn’t the Answer (end of series)

The Book of ADHD Product Management

A series on the basics of ADHD and product management at home and in the workplace.

1. Overview

2. Curiosity

3. Dreaming

4. The Practice of Failure (Story)

5. The Practice of Failure (Science and Strategies)

6. The Practice of Success (Story)

7. The Practice of Success (Science)

8. The Practice of Success (Strategies)

9. Engineering (Story)

10. Engineering (Science)

11. Engineering...Connections with Others (Strategies)

12. Superpowers vs Gifts

13. What is to be a Product Manager with ADHD? (Part 1)

14. What is to be a Product Manager with ADHD? (Part 2)

15. What is to be a Product Manager with ADHD? (Part 3)

16. Tips for if you’ve just been laid off

17. What is to be a Product Manager with ADHD? (Part 4)

18. What is to be a Product Manager with ADHD? (Amplifying Others)

19. Visual Thinking and AI

20. Processing Disappointment and Rejection

21. Visual Design and Oversharing

22. The Greatest Learnings

How to Face and Quiet Your Inner Critic

1. The ADHD Critic vs Me

2. Self-Assessment for the Insecure Soul

3. Overcoming ADHD social anxiety to ask for help

4. How to accept you have a disability through science

5. Write, Listen, Share, Repeat (re-writing your self-story)

Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

1. Imposter Syndrome and confronting the cages we build for ourselves

2. Imposter Syndrome and the burden of masking

3. Imposter Syndrome and the burden of luck

4. Imposter Syndrome and the limitless meaning of being a product manager

The Product Manager Interview and Executive Function

Overcoming interview and case interview anxiety though understanding executive functioning.

1. The PM Interview and Executive Function Overview

2. Task Initiation

3. Flexible Thinking

4. Self Monitoring Part 1

5. Self Monitoring Part 2

6. Planning and Prioritization

7. Organization (Part 1 Feelings)

8. Organization (Part 2 Strategies)

9. Emotional Regulation (Part 1 Accessibility)

10. Emotional Regulation (Part 2 Outbound)

11. Impulse Control and Working Memory

12. Timekeeping

13. Attention and Focus (Part 1 Science)

14. Attention and Focus (Part 2 Strategy)

15. The Executive Function Interview Toolkit (best of strategies)

Reflections

• What I've learned about myself after 10 newsletters