Short tutorials with the prompt right at the top, essays about the stuff nobody admits out loud, and a downloads vault for building your second brain. Everything gets tested on my own ADHD brain before it gets anywhere near yours, thats the entire editorial process.
One email a week, short enough to finish. Leave whenever, no guilt trip.
The learning path
Five tracks, one working brain.
Every post on this site fits one of these. Start anywhere, vanish for a month, come back. The path does not keep score.
1
Talk to AI so it helps
Prompting for racing brains. Dump 40 thoughts at once and get back 3 next steps instead of a lecture.
2
Get organized without another abandoned system
A capture setup that keeps working even after you ignore it for alot longer than planned.
3
Start, focus, finish
Body doubling, two minute openers, and timers that dont nag. Starting is the boss fight so it gets the most tools.
4
Use AI for the job hunt
Resumes and interviews at any age. I started over at 50, nobody gets to call you too old.
5
Build your own tools
No code. Make the little app you wish existed, sized for exactly one brain, yours.
Latest
Fresh from the newsletter.
New tutorials and essays every week. Everything is written to be finished. If a post can't hold an ADHD brain it doesn't go out.
Tutorial
Set up Claude as your ADHD body double in 15 minutes
The exact prompt for getting through the paperwork you have been dodging. Copy, paste, start.
Jul 28Essay
The shame spiral is not a productivity problem
Every system you quit was designed for a brain you don't have. The shame came free with the planner.
Jul 24Video
I let AI plan my whole week and followed it exactly
I made it two days. Those were still the best two days I had all month.
Jul 21
Every week
The weekly AI meetup
One hour, live, every single week. Bring a phone or a laptop and leave with something working. The group goes up on Meetup.com soon and the newsletter gets the link first.
01 Weekly and beginner friendly
02 Daytime, no night driving
03 Bring any device you own
04 Hands-on the whole hour
05 Come once or come every week, both count
DW
Who teaches this
Hi, I'm Doug.
I spent 29 years as a hospitality pro, ran my own print shop, and got diagnosed at 50 with the thing I had my whole life. Then I learned AI with zero tech background, and my ADHD turned out to be a superpower for it. Work I used to avoid for weeks gets finished fast now. I teach AI classes at public libraries around New York, run a weekly meetup, and everything here got tested on my own brain first.
Go deeper
When you're ready for more.
The newsletter is the front porch. These are the rooms inside the house.
The class site
ADHDyap
Learn the whole ADHD + AI system at your own pace. No signup wall and no upsell ambush, just the rabbit and the work.
Every tutorial is short, tested on a real ADHD brain and a real class, and gives you the copy-paste prompt up front. No theory lectures, you can get those anywhere else..
A capture system with no streaks, no guilt, and no maintenance day. It just waits for you.
Essays
The stuff nobody says out loud.
Real talk about ADHD brains, AI, and the people libraries serve. The tools matter but the shame is the real boss fight, and we talk about that here too.
This is the curriculum behind the focus class and the weekly meetup. Its built around how ADHD brains actually work, capture is effortless, sorting is automatic, and starting is the only step that gets real design attention.
1
Capture everything, sort nothing
One inbox for every thought. Voice, text, photo, whatever is fastest in the moment. Sorting at capture time is where every other system dies.
2
Let AI file it for you
AI reads the pile and sorts it into projects, someday, and trash. You review for 5 minutes, it does the boring 55.
3
Start with a body double
Starting is the hard part so it gets the most help. An AI body double sits with you, breaks the task down, and talks you through minute one.
4
Finish in tiny steps
Steps so small they feel silly. Silly finishes beat impressive abandons every single time, I have alot of abandoned impressive proof.
5
Reset without shame
You will fall off. The system plans for it. Getting back on takes one brain dump and about two minutes.
Live classes
Learn this live, weekly or nearby.
The internet version of me is this site. The in-person version runs a weekly meetup and teaches at public libraries around New York. Come to either, they feed each other.
The focus session, and the reason this whole site exists. Also taught at branches, also announced in the newsletter.
Run a library, senior center, or community space? Bookings happen over at libraryaicourses.com, thats the business side of this operation.
Downloads
The second brain downloads.
Everything I hand out in class, in one place. The ebooks, the printable second brain guide, and all 25 prompts. Drop your email once and its all yours, come back anytime.
Open the downloads
One email, every file below unlocks. I'll send the newsletter once a week, unsubscribe whenever and nothing here breaks.
The second brain starter pack
Everything below in one zip file. Grab this one if you want it all.
Share the files with your patrons freely, that is what they are for. The postcard rule applies to every prompt inside: fake names, nothing you wouldn't write on a postcard, no medical, legal, or money details.
About
29 years in hospitality. Now this.
I'm Doug Wong. I spent 29 years in hospitality, owned a print shop, and figured out at 50 that the restless brain I was managing the whole time had a name.
My co-teacher Alex is the one who introduced me to AI, and I sat there in awe. Things I had been avoiding for a week got drafted before my coffee went cold, and I could see right away what this could do for my career. Then I noticed something.
Every tutorial assumed I could sit still for an hour, follow twelve steps in order, and remember where I left off tomorrow. None of that describes me, and if youre here it probably doesn't describe you either.
So I started writing the tutorials I needed. Short, direct, tested on my own brain before they go anywhere near yours. That turned into this newsletter, workshops at libraries around New York, a weekly meetup, a class site called ADHDyap, and an app called YapBrain.
Here is the part nobody expects. I came from hospitality, not tech, and I started all this at 50. The same ADHD that made school and paperwork a nightmare is the exact thing that makes AI work for me. I think its a superpower now, the racing brain finally has a tool that keeps up with it.
One honest thing before you dig in. AI can support an ADHD brain, it helps me every single day. But no tool treats ADHD and nothing here cures anything, anyone who promises that is selling something. This site will never make that promise, we're just here to make the day a little easier..