I've Touched Everything and Mastered Nothing

Seventeen years. That's how long ADHD has been making me touch every skill, hobby, and career path that crossed my path. I'm 30 now. I've lived in eight countries, built products in five programming languages, shipped code on four blockchains, released music on Spotify under an artist name I genuinely cannot remember, and learned enough Vietnamese to haggle at a market in Nha Trang. I am not world-class at any of it. That's the honest version of this story. Not the LinkedIn version where "my diverse background gives me a unique perspective." The real version, where I've spent a decade and a half chasing dopamine across every domain imaginable and I'm only now figuring out what that actually means for a career, an identity, and a life. What the ADHD cycle actually looks like across every skill, hobby, and career path The cycle runs on roughly a two-week clock. Something new appears - on Twitter, in a YouTube rabbit hole, in a Discord I shouldn't be in at 2am. The dopamine hits immediate