How I Use AI as an Executive Function Prosthetic (opens in new tab)

For years I thought I had a discipline problem. I had shipped code, finished a degree, built things, and still the dominant private feeling was that I was getting away with something, that the gap between what I could do on a good day and what I could do on a normal one was a character flaw I was hiding. The reframe that changed everything was clinical, not motivational: I do not have a discipline problem. I have an executive function problem. And executive function, unlike character, can be ...