Length2h 44m
About this audiobook
In 1845, Henry David Thoreau built himself a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond. Walden was never really about a pond. It was a clearing a man made so he could hear himself. He wasn't running a survival test. He was running an attention test.
There is no pond far enough anymore. I could build a cabin on the shore of anything, and the anxiety about my inbox would build a smaller cabin next door. I was diagnosed with ADHD in my mid-forties. I fled before I had a phone. Thoreau's noise was outside him, so distance worked. Mine is inside.
It isn't a memoir. A memoir says here's what happened to me. This book says here's what I keep learning and keep forgetting. Think of it as a user's manual I'm writing for a future version of myself.
This is a book about going to Walden. It is not a book about going to the woods. My answers are just for me. But the questions transfer perfectly, because you already have them.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length2 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 25, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
25Befriend the Roommate (Self-as-Context)
2Chapter 1 I Did Not Go to the Woods
26Build for the Brain You Have (Acceptance)
3Walden, Updated
27Being Present (Presence)
4I Fled Before I Had a Phone
28The Phoenix
5I Want to Stay
29Manual Entries
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6The Accidental Pilot Study
30Chapter 4 Building the Good Life
7The Terms of the Experiment
31The Four Facts
8A Personal Philosophy
32Endings (Including Death) Make It Matter
9Anxiety Was My Happy Place
33The Next Move Is Yours
10You Have to Be Inside It
34We’re Here for Each Other
11Mixing My Own
35Nobody Hands You the Answer
12The Pain of Rebirth
36Make the Ordinary Holy
13The Same Four Problems
37Manual Entries
14Chapter 2 Running Away
38Appendix: The Manual
15Important Means Interesting
39From Chapter 2, Running Away
16The Engine
40From Chapter 3, Facing It
17Sitting Still
41From Chapter 4, Building the Good Life
18The Smart Kid
42Recommended Reading
19I’m Too Busy to Think
43Books About ADHD
20The Canary
44Other ADHD Resources
21Manual Entries
45Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
22Chapter 3 Facing It
46Meaning and the Inner Critic
23The Clutch
47Existential Therapy
24Hold Thoughts Lightly (Defusion)
48How I Used AI in This Book
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