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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