Your ADHD isn’t broken. Your systems are.
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It seems quitting a high-paying tech job doesn't give you immediate clarity on what to do next, how to do it, or why you're doing it.
Shocking, I know.
But it does give you a LOT of space to think.
Lately, I've been spiraling more than I’d like to admit, spreading myself thin between NY tech week events, connecting with founders and creators, trying to figure out how to build a business for the first time.
Is this the “correct” next step for my career?
Should I be coding again when the AI landscape is changing every 3 weeks??
Will anyone agree to what I think is valuable?
Somehow, as I seek more answers, I just feel more lost.
So, I'm going back to basics. What worked when I first quit, and what led me to every fulfilling decision and outcome I have ever made.
What all of us could use a lot more of, ADHD or not.
Curiosity
"Chase questions, not answers." - Aditya Argarwal, General Partner at South Park Commons
At this point, the exploration required to found something seems not all that different from the exploration required to find yourself.
Personally, every interesting experience or decision that felt instinctually “right” started with some variation of “It would be cool if…” or "What if..?"
5 years before getting an internship at Google, high school me told my math tutee “it would be so cool to interview at Google.”
10 years before becoming a dance teacher, I asked “what if I got on stage like them?” With zero prior dance experience.
2 years ago, meeting a creator friend of mine I now meet with weekly, “what if I asked that guy about his YouTube channel?” At my first creator event I showed up to on a whim.
The pattern is that the answers took years to materialize.
When we start chasing the false sense of certainty, we tend to get stuck. When in reality, clarity only comes after exploring the unknown.
ADHD and Divergent Thinking
As a bonus, your ADHD-like brain is perfectly suited to this task.
A recent 2026 study showed that people with ADHD actually thrive when it comes to creative-problem solving. The best performers leaned either very far into EITHER divergent OR convergent thinking.
Meaning, ADHD creativity is actually a superpower.
People with stronger ADHD-like symptoms who leaned more into divergent thinking performed better than those who mixed divergent and convergent thinking evenly.
So, get curious with what you can even be curious about.
Ask, how can I be curious about:
What I'm working on
Who I meet
What environments I can put myself in
What difficult conversation I’m avoiding
How "weird" I can get
How much rejection I can face each day
What are my actual limits, not just what I think my limits are
Start with open-ended questions, not yes-no answers.
Lead with curiosity, not the outcome.
This Week: You’re Invited!
A year ago, I said it would be “really cool” to collaborate with xTiles, a visual productivity planner. They were the first productivity tool I had ever used with the words "ADHD Template" in their product.
Tomorrow at 1 pm ET, I’m going live with them on my first webinar!
There are already 170+ signups.
We'll be deep-diving on how to approach work from an ADHD-first lens, and how to leverage your strengths without fighting your weaknesses.
It's totally free, with a bonus offer at the end to attendees. Claim your spot here ➝
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— Kat