The ADHD Engineer is a newsletter for software engineers who are tired of being at war with themselves at work.

Not because they don’t care.
Not because they’re lazy.
But because their mind doesn’t behave the way they think it should — and they’ve learned to respond with pressure, frustration, or self-blame.

This newsletter doesn’t treat ADHD as a productivity problem.

It treats it as a relationship-with-self problem.

What you’ll get:

Each week, I explore one real ADHD-at-work moment from the inside — the kind of moment I see again and again in conversations with thoughtful, capable engineers with ADHD.

We slow down the moment where:

• shame quietly creeps in

• self-judgment takes over

• clarity disappears

• and execution stalls — not loudly, but subtly

Not to fix it.
Not to optimize it.

But to actually see what’s happening — and what often shifts when the inner pressure drops.

There are no tips here.
No systems to implement.
No advice to follow.

What you’ll find instead is careful attention to the exact point where things start to go sideways — the moment that’s usually missed, rushed past, or overridden.

These moments aren’t theoretical.
They come from patterns I see repeatedly in real conversations with engineers who are smart, capable, and deeply tired of being told what to do — and even more tired of telling themselves they’re failing.

If you’ve ever thought:

“I just don’t know how to stop being so hard on myself.”

You’re in the right place.

— Michael Greenspan
Former engineering manager. Coach to software engineers with ADHD.