Daily Log Digest – Week 39, 2025
2025-10-01
ADHD Interventions
The question my ADHD diagnosis didn't ask
People with ADHD didn’t passively wait for medical interventions to arrive. Just like with any other condition, people with ADHD will seek ways to cope. And most of the time, they’ll find one.
Forms of coping include stimulating substances like coffee and tobacco, exercise or physically demanding work to help channel their restless energy, creative and entrepreneurial pursuits that accommodate hypercuriosity and reward novelty-seeking, and structured rituals to self-impose a form of external order.
These strategies exist on a spectrum. Some are beneficial: regular exercise, creative outlets, careers that play to ADHD strengths. Some are in the middle and highly context-dependent: workaholic tendencies, relying on caffeine to stay focused, rigid scheduling systems.
And some are actively harmful: alcohol, nicotine, and any ways to cope that provide temporary dopamine hits at significant cost.
and here she alludes to what Evolutionary Psychology practitioners have been talking about for a very long time.
I’m not saying medication is intrinsically wrong. For some people, in some contexts, it genuinely is life-changing. My concern is that medication offered reflexively at diagnosis isn’t just inadequate, it might be actively harmful.
We suspect that ADHD traits likely evolved in environments vastly different from modern life, and the “disorder” might emerge from the mismatch between our neurology and today’s demands: sedentary work, arbitrary deadlines, sedentary work, constant digital stimulation.
Shouldn’t we be assessing whether the environment is the problem and lifestyle changes might help before medicating the person?
2025-10-04
A Primer of Raw Denim
All About Raw Denim - Heddels Blowout Podcast #jeans
Nowadays, the only piece of bottomwear I have are raw denims. I rotate between two of them from time to time.
This is a great short podcast that gives an overview of the entire process of making raw denim. Although I have read about raw denim before, it was nice to have an overview in one place that I could point to.
They also have an extremely detailed 7-episode breakdown of denim earlier in their podcast epis