Reflection · · 6 min

New world as an ADHD person

Six hours. I had planned to spend thirty minutes on a proof-of-concept. Engineers overrun estimates all the time. But this wasn’t a planning failure, it was something I’d spent my whole adult life recognizing too late: hyperfocus. The kind where time doesn’t slow down, it simply stops existing. My coffee went cold. I missed lunch. I blew past my 6pm hard stop with more working code than I’d shipped in the previous three days combined. ...

August 28, 2026 · 6 min · 1108 words · Kemal Akkoyun