How Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems

A former manager once described me as a “purist”. It wasn’t the first time a colleague alluded to my obsessive way of thinking but it was the first time someone used it as a compliment. It got me thinking, what if neurodivergent “defects” are the exact architecture the world’s systems need?

Neurodivergence is often pathologized. You may have heard that y…