How we built a weekly planning tool for ADHD and autistic service providers — and what six weeks of testing taught us along the way
Every project management tool, every to-do list app, every productivity system starts the same way. Brain dump your tasks. Then, the assumption goes, you’ll sort through them and figure out what to work on. But here’s what fifteen years of working with ND founders taught us: the tasks
Why your plans stop working at week six (it's not you)
Let me guess: the last time you built a quarterly plan, it stopped working right around week six. Not dramatically, and not all at once. Just... quietly. Around week six or eight, the energy behind it changed. You were still doing the work, but the plan had started to feel
Most people think calm comes after things work. Here's what I found instead . . .
Editor's Note: This post is part of our "Build in Public" series, where some of our technical (and non-technical!) founders in The Commons share what the day-to-day reality of building a business is like. Today's post is from Breanne Dyck, co-founder of VisionaryOS -
The 15-minute habit that replaces 5 meetings
I am a tab horder. It’s not unusual for me to have 5 different browser windows with 15-20 tabs each. ChatGPT. Slack. Google Sheets. Facebook. My calendar. And a Notion doc someone promised was “up to date.” I mean, it’s just how my brain works. And while it’
What If Your Business Had to Answer to Your Great-Great-Grandchildren?
The Commons and Solo School operate from the traditional unceded territory of the Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla, and S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō) peoples, who continue to live on and love this land today. On this day and always, we stand with the Indigenous peoples of Canada and call on