Seniority with ADHD is easier, not harder.
You have read the ADHD productivity advice, and it was written for someone else — someone with a manager, a routine, and not much at stake. Bandwidth is a field manual for the other end of the org chart, written pseudonymously by a UK managing director with ADHD and two burnouts behind him. It rests on one unfashionable observation: at the top, this gets easier — because you finally control the one variable that matters, your own diary.
That observation is the Inversion, and the manual follows it all the way down: into the hyperfocus tax and how to pay it before it compounds; into delegation that works without sustained attention (Proceed until apprehended); into the strategic reserve that makes an uneven brain look like a consistent one from the outside. Not strategies for coping at work. Operating doctrine for running the place.
The catalogue
- Bandwidth, the book£24
Eight chapters, around 30,000 words. The full argument and the full system, written to be read in two sittings and used for years.
- The Bandwidth Toolkit£39
The scripts, templates and meeting system from the book as working documents — for the reader who wants to deploy rather than transcribe.
- Book and toolkit together£49
The whole system in one purchase. The arithmetic is on its own page.
Who it is for
Managing directors, partners, founders, and the senior people one rung below them — diagnosed late or wondering, tired of advice pitched at people with none of their leverage and all of their symptoms. It assumes you are competent, sceptical and busy. It assumes the problem was never effort.
Who it is not for
If you are early in your career, much of this manual describes leverage you do not have yet; it may still be useful as a map, but it was not written for your terrain. It is not a clinical resource: nothing in it diagnoses anything or substitutes for medical advice. And if you are looking for someone to tell you that ADHD is a hidden gift, this is the wrong shop — the position here is that it is a condition with real costs, some of which buy real advantages when they are managed deliberately. That is as far as the romance goes.
The vocabulary
The manual names what it manages — the sofa-tea paradox, the dopamine kill, the message tax, the stinging nettle — on the principle that an unnamed problem cannot be delegated, scheduled or defended against. All eighteen terms are defined in the concepts index, free, in full. The book is where they become a system.