Really believe that ADHDs, if they play their cards well, might be the biggest winners of this AI gold rush Cause unlike corporate careers rewarding consistency & compounding, the new world disproportionally rewards curiosity, obsession, rapid switching and intensity The basic problem with ADHD in the old world was that curiosity was expensive. You’d get obsessed with some random idea, spend 3 days learning everything about it, want to build something, then realise you need 6 months to learn how to code / design / whatever (or pay someone who can) and eventually move onto the next thing But AI completely changes that equation because the distance between “wait this would be cool” and actually testing it has collapsed from months to sometimes hours. You can get curious about some niche industry in the morning, understand the basics by lunch, vibe code something in the afternoon and potentially have people testing it that evening. So this disproportionately rewards people whose natural state is basically jumping between rabbit holes, connecting unrelated things and occasionally becoming insanely obsessed with one of them AI is also slowly deleting the boring middle. A lot of ADHD people aren’t necessarily bad at starting things or going insanely deep when something captures their attention, they’re bad at the 200 repetitive steps between “this is exciting” and “this is finished” (boilerplate, formatting, basic debugging, admin, iteration, etc.) And those are increasingly exactly the things you can delegate to AI, which means the economic value of being insanely curious + occasionally obsessive probably goes up, while the cost of being bad at repetitive execution goes down But there’s a massive catch, because AI is also creating the greatest distraction machine ever invented. Every morning there’s a new model, agent, tool, business model or “once in a generation opportunity” to chase, and the same brain that benefits most from cheap experimentation is also the one most likely to spend 5 years being extremely early to everything and compounding absolutely nothing So the actual winning combination might actually be ADHD-style exploration + artificially imposed constraints: explore aggressively, follow weird rabbit holes, test way more things than a normal person would, but once something works force yourself into sprints where you’re simply not allowed to play another game For most of history the economy disproportionately rewarded people who could reliably do the same useful thing for 8 hours a day, 250 days a year. For this weird period of AI, the returns temporarily shift towards people who can obsess over 20 things, connect 2 that nobody else connected, then disappear for 3 days and build the thing