Michael Rodriguez

Michael Rodriguez writes about daily management and productivity for adults with ADHD. He has an ADHD diagnosis himself and works as a non-clinical ADHD coach. The articles he contributes focus on the systems side: how to externalize working memory, how to run a calendar that survives a bad week, how to pair dopamine with boring tasks, and when a popular productivity hack is mostly theatre.

He is skeptical of 'just try harder' advice and of productivity frameworks designed for neurotypical brains. A lot of his editing time goes into removing false simplifications, the kind of sentence that sounds helpful but quietly blames the reader.

Michael does not give clinical or medical advice. When a topic crosses into medication, diagnosis, or trauma, he either hands the article to a different writer or limits himself to summarising what the published guidelines actually say.

What this writer covers

• Work, routines, and energy management
• Externalising executive function (lists, capture, calendars)
• Procrastination, task initiation, and follow-through
• Living with ADHD across good weeks and bad weeks

How they research a piece

Michael writes from a mix of published executive-function research and coaching practice. Claims about how ADHD works come from NIMH, peer-reviewed studies, or named clinical textbooks; strategies come from coaching practice and are labeled as such so you can tell the difference.

What they are not

Michael is an ADHD coach and advocate, not a doctor or therapist. Coaching is a non-clinical support role. Nothing on his articles is intended as treatment, therapy, or medical advice.

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