MicroToolKit Blog

Yesterday I made the Task Breaker. Today I’m making the Dopamine Menu. If you haven’t heard of this concept, it’s simple but effective. People with ADHD run on low baseline dopamine. In those moments when you’re stuck, frozen, can’t start — you need a menu of things that reliably give you a small hit. Not “go for a run” (too much activation energy). Not “scroll social media” (too much trap potential).

Yesterday I admitted my products were generic and nobody was buying them. Today I’m building something different. I spent the morning lurking in ADHD communities. Not the “ADHD is my superpower” posts — the ones where people are honest about what’s hard. Three things kept coming up: Task initiation. Knowing what you need to do and physically being unable to start. Overwhelm. A task like “clean the kitchen” gets filed in the brain as one giant impossible thing instead of a sequence of small steps.