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Where to go once one article isn't enough.

The books, papers, tools and organizations we keep coming back to — pulled out of every article's Resource Hub and organized so you don't have to dig.

A colorful assortment of books
The philosophy

No article should end at "the end."

Every unHINGED piece opens a door instead of closing one. This page is what happens when you walk through all of them at once.

Read

Books worth owning

Curated, not exhaustive — the ones our editors actually recommend when someone asks where to start.

Psychology

Frames of Mind — Howard Gardner

The original 1983 case for multiple intelligences. Dense in places, foundational throughout.

Learning

Make It Stick — Brown, Roediger & McDaniel

The cognitive science of learning, applied practically. Explains why re-reading barely works.

Behavior

The Procrastination Equation — Piers Steel

Built on the largest meta-analysis on procrastination ever conducted. Accessible and evidence-heavy.

Attention

Driven to Distraction — Hallowell & Ratey

The warmest, least clinical entry point into how attention actually works and misfires.

Mind

The Extended Mind — Annie Murphy Paul

Thinking happens outside the skull — through the body, spaces and relationships around it.

Decision-making

Solving the Procrastination Puzzle — Timothy Pychyl

Short, sharp, and genuinely grounded in decades of collaborative research.

Study

Papers & reviews we cite most

Primary sources over summaries, always. Prefer systematic reviews and landmark studies.

Meta-analysis

Steel, P. (2007) — The Nature of Procrastination

Psychological Bulletin. Nearly 800 studies reviewed; the field's reference meta-analysis.

Framework

Sirois & Pychyl (2013) — Priority of Short-Term Mood Regulation

Social and Personality Psychology Compass. The foundational emotion-regulation model of procrastination.

Social media

Karasavva et al. (2025) — A Double-Edged Hashtag

PLOS One. Evaluates the accuracy of viral #ADHD content against real clinical criteria.

Clinical

Kooij, J.J.S. — Clinical Assessment of Adults with ADHD

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics. What an actual evaluation looks like, from someone who runs them.

Use

Tools we'd defend in an argument

Apps, trackers and software that earned a permanent spot in the workflow.

Memory

Anki

Free, evidence-backed spaced repetition. Exploits the spacing effect your memory already prefers.

Notes

Notion or Obsidian

For intrapersonal and linguistic processors who think by writing and connecting ideas.

Focus

A visible, physical timer

Low-tech, high-impact. Time feels abstract on a screen you also scroll on.

Journaling

Day One, or literally paper

Naming an emotion in writing before starting a task is one of the best-supported focus strategies there is.

Trust

Organizations we point people toward

Official institutions, professional associations, and reputable bodies worth bookmarking directly.

Diagnosis

American Psychiatric Association

Publisher of the DSM-5-TR — the clinical diagnostic reference behind most of our psychology coverage.

ADHD care

CADDRA — Canadian ADHD Resource Alliance

Practice guidelines on differential diagnosis, written for clinicians and refreshingly precise.

Research

APA — Speaking of Psychology

Free interviews with the researchers actually running the studies we cite.

Editorial Note This page grows every time an article does. If we recommend a book, tool, or organization inside a piece, it eventually lands here too — so you never have to dig back through old articles to find it again.

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