NixIt

08/21/2026

08/20/2026

There is a song in my head right now. There almost always is.

Last night at 3AM it was Deceptacon by Le Tigre. Played it through, got one minute of peace, then my brain served up Private Idaho by the B-52s because it had decided one was built on the other and had to solve it before I was allowed to sleep.

Also true: I can hear my son cough from the basement, two floors down. Same kid says Mom from the next room and I hear nothing.

I finally read the science on all of it and wrote it up. Link in comments if you also have to know.

Who else has the radio? What's playing right now? I'm collecting data.
https://nixit.ai/blog/stuck-song-syndrome

08/13/2026

A Manifesto is your product framework in this example. What does your product do at its highest level and ideal? Our first plank of our manifesto is “reduce cognitive load” if this is interesting, like and follow and I’ll add our other 4

08/08/2026

Team NixIt made it out to watch a Denver Summit FC match and got away from their computers for the night.

07/28/2026

Have you ever gotten in trouble for being too disruptive?

Have you ever been told you're too chatty? Have you ever been shamed for acting inappropriately in a room full of people who decided what appropriate meant before you walked in?

Now imagine you're twelve.

You are chatty. You are acting disruptive. You can't sit still. You hear the HVAC fan is blowing. You hear a pencil drop behind you. You hear paper crinkling, chairs squeaking and bodies shuffling. The teacher is talking at you and you just can't settle. Your body is doing everything it knows how to do and every bit of it is wrong according to the room.

You know what we do to those kids?

We make them behavior issues. We send them to the principal's office. We call their parents. We build a file on them before they're old enough to read it.

That was me. I'm Chatty Kathy. Literally. My name is Kathy and I never stopped talking.

I fidget. I interrupt. I lose the thread of a conversation and pick up three new ones before anyone notices the first one left. I was diagnosed with ADHD in my forties. A doctor described the way my brain worked and I sat there thinking, that's me. That has always been me. I'd been carrying this internalized anxiety around not fitting in since I was that twelve year old in the loud classroom. Nobody caught it, because I was a good girl who got good grades and talked too much.

My oldest son has spent his share of time during elementary school in the principal's office for the crime of having a nervous system that didn't match the furniture. Different kid, different presentation than me, yet the same system that only knows how to sort children into compliant and broken.

That's why I built NixIt. AI-powered executive function support that works over SMS, built for neurodivergent people by a neurodivergent family. Not a monitoring app. Not a behavior tracker. A quiet structure in your pocket for the things no one taught us how to manage, because they were too busy telling us to sit still.

I'm still chatty. I'm still disruptive. I'm building the thing I wish someone had handed me at twelve.

07/22/2026

The homework portal was open in one tab.

My kid swore everything was done.

The portal said six assignments missing, every subject, going back three weeks.

I'd tried the advice. Let him feel the natural consequences. He'll learn to course correct on his own.

He didn't course correct. He was ten assignments deep and failing two classes before anyone, including him, fully registered what had happened.

"Let them feel the consequences" assumes a brain that can hold "I skipped something three weeks ago" and connect it to today's failing grade. It assumes the thread between action and outcome stays taut on its own, quietly, for weeks.

My kid's brain doesn't do that automatically. He cares. He was trying. But the invisible bookkeeping that connects Tuesday's missing worksheet to July's failing grade just isn't wired to run in the background.

So the assignments piled up in silence. And by the time the consequence arrived, it was too big to learn from. It was just a hole.

Everyone kept asking "why isn't he trying harder?"

The question that actually helped was different. What would catch this on day two instead of week three? What's still open right now? What's one thing we can close today?

Those three questions did more than any consequence ever did in our house.

More consequences just meant a bigger pile and a kid who felt worse about himself. A daily check, even a small one, meant the thread never got long enough to snap.

That's why we built NixIt. The person who builds that daily catch, whether it's a parent, a coach, or a tool that does it alongside them, is the one who actually changes the outcome.

I still think about that portal at 11pm. Six assignments, three weeks deep. A five second check on day two would have kept all of it from piling up in the dark.

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