TL;DR: I spent years thinking I had executive dysfunction. AI didn't cure anything — it just matched my cognitive throughput, which turned out to be the actual bottleneck.
The Problem
I've struggled with executive function all my life. The kind that doesn't respond to self-help books, willpower, or any of the countless interventions I tried.
Before AI, I was at my best when working on five unrelated projects simultaneously. More context-switching, paradoxically, meant more output. My brain needed the throughput.
The Shift
With modern AI, I can devote all my time to one project — Papre, composable agreement infrastructure for trustless coordination on Ethereum. Instead of trying to type 1,000 words a minute to keep up with my thoughts, I break the work into well-defined pieces and delegate.
The workflow looks like this:
Thinking → Breaking into pieces → AI implements → I review/redirect → Ship
Instead of:
Thinking → Typing frantically → Context lost → Start over → Burn out
What I'm Building
Papre is composable agreement infrastructure. Think of it as microservices for legal contracts — atomic clauses that compose into agreements, both on-chain (Solidity) and off-chain (TypeScript).
I'm a transactional lawyer, CS/math grad, and meditation teacher. That unique combination is exactly what this project needs. AI didn't replace any of those skills. It just let me use them all at once without the friction.
The Takeaway
If you've struggled with executive function and found that AI changed your work life — I'd argue it's not that AI fixed you. It's that the tooling finally matched your cognitive throughput.
The dysfunction was never in the brain. It was in the gap between thinking and building.
Builder's Note: Day 5 of building Papre. 12-14 hour days, hyperfocused. The throughput is the therapy.
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