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"I'm my own worst enemy!"
The world doles out many defeats to the ADD adult, perhaps more than can be counted. ADD adults often dole out even more defeats to...

Scott Robinson
May 28, 20202 min read


"I am most comfortable in clutter..."
And now for a bit of controversy. Most of our ADD traits are, when carefully examined, positives that society shouldn’t be trying to...

Scott Robinson
May 28, 20203 min read


"There's a science to my brain!"
There are things ADD is, and there are things ADD isn’t. Even those of us who “have” ADD or “are” ADD or whatever don’t always fully...

Scott Robinson
May 28, 20203 min read


ADD: Very Good Company...
"I’m in very good company!” ADHD has a high profile right now. It is currently receiving more research attention than depression, OCD,...

Scott Robinson
May 28, 20202 min read


ADD Folks Have Been Around for a Loooong Time!
Since ADD arrives in our minds through our genes, it’s been part of the human story for many millennia – far back in prehistory. This...

Scott Robinson
May 28, 20205 min read


Overthinking
"I sometimes overthink things...” This is so typical of ADD adults that it’s a cliché. We are the world’s leading over-thinkers. It takes...

Scott Robinson
May 28, 20203 min read


Intellectual Capitalism
Artificial Intelligence is looming with menace over the global economy, threatening decimation of both the unskilled laborer and the...

Scott Robinson
May 28, 20203 min read


The Children of Babel: Conclusions
I spent my graduate school years peeking into the brains of newborn infants and young children. We were using a gentle EEG technique to...

Scott Robinson
May 28, 20208 min read
Overshare the Tenth: Things That Frighten Me
When I was five years old, we lived in a post-war suburban shoebox outside Lexington. I had my own bedroom, prior to the birth of my...

Scott Robinson
May 28, 20203 min read
Overshare the Ninth: This Moment in Time
Our shared coronavirus moment is singular in our lifetime: more than 9/11, it will come to define us and the world in which we persist....

Scott Robinson
May 28, 20202 min read
Overshare the Eighth: COVID-19 Regrets
Here I sit, alone at home, doing a new job for a new company and dreading each new day. It's not the job or the work - I really enjoy it....

Scott Robinson
May 28, 20202 min read
Overshare the Seventh: Digital Me
When asked what it is I do, my children never know what to say. "It's something to do with social something, and he does a lot of...

Scott Robinson
May 28, 20203 min read
Overshare the Sixth: Brain Games
I am well-known as a bookworm, and frequently show off my over-the-top home library, which is 5,000+ volumes strong. This serves as my...

Scott Robinson
May 28, 20203 min read
Overshare the Fifth: Gene Roddenberry and Me
Continuing our tour of my copious insecurities, we now turn to Star Trek. When I confessed recently that I had become a humanist in the...

Scott Robinson
May 28, 20204 min read
Overshare the Fourth: I Just... Want... to... Sing!!!
Today I'm going to overshare about an insecurity that will probably be more relatable than the last few. As I've already said, I had the...

Scott Robinson
May 28, 20203 min read
Overshare the Third: The Inescapable Tribe
Welcome to Installment Three. For those not up to speed, this post is the latest in a series of self-innoculations against personal...

Scott Robinson
May 28, 20204 min read
Overshare the Second: High-Latency Guilt
If you missed the previous installment, you might not know that Uncle Scott is completely isolated - all my kids are distributed across...

Scott Robinson
May 28, 20203 min read
Overshare the First: Full-Circle Humility
I can't go into detail without compromising the privacy of a few others I care about, but let me overshare that the past 8 months have...

Scott Robinson
May 28, 20202 min read


Don't Talk About Your Genitals!
Among the imperative concerns raised these past few years by the discourse of an untethered Oval Occupant has been the loosening of...

Scott Robinson
May 28, 20203 min read


Entropy, Interrupted: Consciousness and Energy
Dissipative adaptation - ‘spreading energy’ - may, in the long run, turn out to be an insight into the nature of matter on a par with...

Scott Robinson
May 28, 20202 min read
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