Neurodivergent work
Knowledge work with the neurodivergent mind in the design brief: burnout economics, monotropism against context-switching, code review as a double-empathy problem, and hiring programs that grade people on masking.
-
Unmasking and stress as competence: honest signals, real budgets, and taking the mask off slowly
Masking is skilled labor with a budget — shutdowns, short fuses and long crashes are the system doing its job. Unmasking is gradual, safety-dependent, yours to pace.
-
Different minds in the age of average
AI is a regression-to-the-mean engine — the more it mediates, the more output converges on the modal. That makes genuine cognitive difference rarer and more visible.
-
Monotropism, flow, and the real cost of context-switching
Autistic attention is narrow-but-deep, not a focus deficit. Context-switching costs are structural — workplaces that ignore them tax whom they claim to accommodate.
-
Autistic adulthood as infrastructure: employment, housing, and supported autonomy
Past the transition cliff, autistic adults fall into sparse, fragmented support — employment, housing, supported decision-making, autonomy the goal.
-
The double-empathy problem lands in your pull requests
Autistic communication friction is bidirectional — both neurotypes misread each other. The fix is protocol design, not coaching the autistic person to mask.
-
What "neurodiversity at work" programs get wrong: assimilation sold as inclusion
Neurodiversity-at-work programs recruit autistic people for narrow roles and measure success by masking. Real inclusion redesigns the workplace, not the employee.
-
Autistic burnout and the cost of masking, for knowledge workers (not the HR version)
Autistic burnout is the predictable output of sustained masking — and standard corporate interventions make it worse. What actually helps, drawn from the research.
-
Disclosure in software workplaces, beyond the negativity bias
The biggest study of neurodivergent developers yet finds disclosure outcomes mostly positive — despite the negativity bias of the forums that advise them.