Measure

I was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult. The diagnosis recontextualized everything — including why pure willpower never worked for habit-building, and why external data did.

The ADHD brain has an unreliable internal clock and a broken reward system. Measurement is a prosthetic: it makes invisible patterns visible, creates concrete feedback loops, and replaces the vague sense of "am I doing well?" with an answer.

The pipeline is real: iOS Shortcuts capture events into Data Jar, which ingests into PostgreSQL with a unified JSONB schema. Materialized daily summaries aggregate steps, HRV, drive count, clipboard copies, book highlights, social posts, and audiobook listens. Eight data sources, one timeline, running since October 2022.