The deep dives
Long-form, fully cited guides: the complete method, ADHD, students, the science, and the honest tool comparisons.
14 entries · updated 12 September 2026
For ADHD brains, standard advice often fails because it assumes working executive functions. Here is what changes and which adaptations actually help.
Five picks judged on ADHD-specific criteria, external structure, visible time, low friction, body doubling, not on generic productivity polish.
Five blockers, ranked by how hard they are to defeat and who they actually suit. Includes the case for buying none of them.
Five ways to buy (or borrow) another human's presence, from 1-to-1 pairing to facilitated caves to free 24/7 Discord rooms.
Three apps that run good Pomodoro sessions, ranked honestly, plus the unfashionable truth: a £5 kitchen timer is the best pick for many people.
The whole method in one place: understand the mechanism, diagnose why you are avoiding this task, then pick the technique built for that reason.
Our core method, day by day: five days, one avoided project, one job per day. Diagnose, build the environment, start, repeat, ship.
The two most-recommended blockers, head to head: cross-device subscription vs desktop-only fortress. The right answer depends on where you leak.
The honest number is 66 days at the median and anywhere from 18 to 254 in practice. The more useful question is whether the thing you are avoiding can become a habit at all.
One sentence, 94 studies, d = .65. The full guide to if-then planning: the mechanism, the exact format, the failure modes, and why it never asks you to feel motivated.
The numbers that survive a citation check, each traced to its paper, and a debunking section for the statistics that circulate with no source at all.
Forty years of research, told as one story: from 'lazy students' to a precise account of mood repair, discounting curves and what actually treats it.
Students procrastinate more than anyone, at the exact life stage where deadlines are furthest away. The fixes, sorted by what you're avoiding.
The reason better calendars never cured your procrastination: delay is mood repair. You are not disorganised, you are dodging a feeling, and that changes the entire fix.
A technique, a study worth knowing, and one thing to try. No streaks, no guilt, unsubscribe any time.