Data is not the dashboard.
Essays, research signals and book fragments on analytical cognition, workplace systems and the market evidence behind them. Written as an observer and systems thinker — not an influencer.
What this page covers
Analytical Cognition
Pattern recognition, ambiguity, systems thinking, dashboards and problem discovery.
Workplace Systems
Management, feedback, autonomy, meetings, adjustments, burnout and organisational risk.
Market Signals
UK/EU evidence, labour-market change, AI, attrition and technical talent research.
Field Notes
Specific experiences, contradictions and evolving frameworks — without becoming a diary.
In progress
Context in, quality out
The same failure shows up in a ticket, a SQL join and a meeting agenda — and it's always the same fix.
Arguing with two AIs at once
Before a hard conversation happens for real, run both sides of it first — on two different logins.
The question behind the question
A data request is rarely only the literal request. Why the divergent analyst reads subtext, wider context and unstated decisions — and what that costs.
The algorithmic imagination
Mentally simulating failure modes, future stakeholders and system consequences before the code or architecture exists.
The cognitive invoice
Dopamine can hide expenditure. Why recovery gets judged as the problem, when it's evidence the work happened at all.
Feedback as systems design
Three entities in the room — the manager, the analyst and the work itself. Why that separation changes what feedback can do.
Hub-and-spoke thinking
Why one problem instantly maps to commercial, customer, technical and team consequences — and why solving one spoke feels personal.
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Additional resources
Not everything on divergent, analytical minds at work needs to come from this site. These are the organisations, books, channels and podcasts we'd point you to next. Not exhaustive, not universally endorsed — a starting list.
Workplace-specific
Specialist coaching, assessments and workplace consultancy from occupational psychologists — helping neurodivergent people thrive and helping organisations build the culture and systems to support them properly, not just tick a compliance box.
A psychological consultancy specialising in neurodiversity at work, partnering with 750+ organisations to build what they call "Neurodiversity Smart" cultures — assessment, coaching, training, e-learning.
A volunteer-led UK charity built around one job: getting employers and neurodivergent employees on the same page about recruitment, retention and what actually works.
Co-author of Neurodiversity at Work interviews the people actually doing the building — useful for the "how organisations operationalise this" conversation, not just the awareness-raising one.
Enterprise neurodiversity training platform — Salesforce, Deloitte, IBM and Google are among the clients, which tells you this has already cleared a few corporate procurement committees.
US government-funded, free and unglamorous — the actual reference desk for what accommodation to request or offer, specifically, once the conversation moves past theory.
Books & thought leadership
"Drive innovation, performance and productivity with a neurodiverse workforce." Business Book Awards 2022 winner, Diversity, Inclusion & Equality category.
Less "here's the business case," more what it actually looks like to lead from this wiring — a useful counterweight to the more corporate entries on this list.
Regular, credentialled commentary on workplace neurodiversity from someone who also runs a consultancy doing the work, not just writing about it.
Research & studies
Peer-reviewed, open access, British Medical Bulletin. The paper behind the "spiky profile" concept — cognitive strengths and struggles as statistically significant peaks and troughs, not a flat line above or below average.
Peer-reviewed, Journal of Applied Psychology. Three field experiments showing that a felt connection between effort and impact measurably increases performance — the research behind why showing a team the "why" isn't a soft extra.
Peer-reviewed, Proceedings of the Royal Society B. A 457-person foraging experiment finding ADHD-screened participants abandoned depleted resources faster and gathered more overall — early experimental evidence for ADHD-associated impulsivity as a genuine adaptive advantage, not only a modern-office liability.
Major ADHD organisations
"The world's most trusted resource for families and adults living with ADHD and related conditions, and for the professionals who work with them." Scientific advisory board reviews everything before it publishes.
The largest US nonprofit for people affected by ADHD, running since 1987.
The leading international nonprofit specifically for adults with ADHD — thirty-plus years old, peer-support focused.
Europe's largest user-led neurodevelopmental charity — covers ADHD, autism, dyslexia, DCD, dyscalculia, OCD and Tourette's, not just one label.
UK charity built around evidence and a podcast, not merchandise — runs The ADHD Adults podcast.
Autism organisations (UK)
The UK's leading autism charity, running since 1962 — the most comprehensive UK directory of autism services and support.
The UK's leading autism medical research charity — funds the actual science behind diagnosis and support.
YouTube
1.6M subscribers, covered by the New York Times and Washington Post — probably the single most credible lived-experience ADHD channel out there.
45 years of clinical practice and research, delivered as lecture footage — the citation-grade end of this list, not the relatable end.
An AuDHD entrepreneur building a working life around the brain she has, not the one business advice assumes — the closest tonal match here to running something, not just working inside something.
Podcasts
The longest-running ADHD podcast — 560+ episodes, 8 million downloads across 119 countries, with episodes specifically on workplace strategy.
UK-hosted, evidence-led, and refreshingly unwilling to take itself too seriously about a subject most content treats with either clinical distance or forced positivity.
Issue 001: Data Is Not the Dashboard
The inaugural issue positions the analyst as translator, plumber and business mechanic — and introduces the contradiction between the traits organisations ask for and the behaviour they punish. No spam, no growth-hacking — just the ideas as they develop.