Articles
The Case of Paul McCartney: The Beatles, the Caddie, and the Ultimate Small Group
This is a case about the Beatles, with Paul McCartney under the microscope. The Beatles are usually presented as four extraordinary musicians who somehow found one another at exactly the right moment. That is true, but it misses something potentially more useful. They were also an extraordinary small group. They spent years playing, rehearsing, writing, recording, […]
John Chaney: A Model Mensch for ADHDers in the Classroom
My Teacher From Afar I never played for John Chaney. I never sat in his locker room, stumbled into one of his infamous early-morning practices, or had him pull me into his office after I screwed up and explain what I needed to understand about myself. John Chaney probably never knew I existed. But he […]
The Accidental Remedy
Why Injured Athletes Can Suddenly Look Like They Developed ADHD "...Two years ago there was nothing at all about the effects of aerobic exercise on ADHD. I had worked with dozens of people. Of course, who have treated their ADHD with exercise (the trade-off is one hour of aerobic exercise for 4 hours of performance […]
What the Kitchen Builds
How passion can become competence, executive function, identity—and eventually something you have to learn to leave The kid is at home. Nobody has called them talented yet. There is no chef’s coat, no brigade, no Saturday-night service and certainly no Michelin star. Maybe somebody asks them to help make dinner. Maybe they start screwing around […]
Violent Discipline, Culture, and Neurodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean
Disclaimer: While the research highlighted in this article illustrates systemic trends and the disproportionately high rates of harsh discipline in these regions, these data points reflect regional averages—not the reality of every home. Countless parents and caregivers across Latin America, the Caribbean, and around the world reject physical and verbal abuse, navigate parenting with deep empathy, […]
Compounding Crisis: ADHD, Violent Discipline, and the Global Reality of Child Protection
The global reality of childhood discipline revealed by UNICEF's long-term research reveals a staggering baseline: roughly 1.6 billion children aged 2–14 (2 in 3 worldwide) regularly endure violent discipline, including psychological aggression and physical punishment, at the hands of their primary caregivers. Nearly 400 million children under age 5face violent discipline globally, underpinned by deep-seated social norms where more […]
When Steve Jobs Predicted the Future of Neurodiversity: How the Tech Icon Foresaw Dr. William Dodson’s ADHD Framework and the Scandinavian School Reboot
In the late 1990s, Steve Jobs made a surprising admission. As the man who had put more personal computers into classrooms than perhaps anyone else in history, he publicly stated that technology was by no means the most important thing in education (Computerworld, 1996). "Computers are very reactive... What children need is something much more […]
Neurodivergence in the Pressure Cooker: Supporting ADHD and AuDHD Students from Caribbean Households in Florida Title I Schools
Disclaimer: While the research highlighted in this article illustrates systemic trends and the disproportionately high rates of harsh discipline in these regions, these data points reflect regional averages—not the reality of every home. Countless parents and caregivers across Latin America, the Caribbean, and around the world reject physical and verbal abuse, navigate parenting with deep empathy, […]
The Silicon Chasm: Why the Next Era of AI Belongs to Biological Geometry
The global artificial intelligence race is currently divided by an architectural rift. On one side sits the scaling hypothesis, championed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman: a strategy that treats intelligence as a dense matrix multiplication problem solvable by escalating compute, parameters, and energy consumption. On the other side sits the Thousand Brains Theory, formulated by Numenta founder Jeff Hawkins: […]