So Apparently the Brain Has a Weed Whacker

So here’s what happened:

I saw a post from Kelly Baums—a sharp, soulful educator who basically Jedi-minds you into thinking deeply about your own wiring. You can watch the post here and check out her work at https://kellybaums.com.

The topic? Synaptic pruning.

Sounds like something you’d do to a bonsai tree, right? Turns out, your brain does it too—and if you’ve got ADHD (or you’ve ever Googled “Why am I like this?” at 2:47 AM), it might matter more than you think.

Anyway, the moment I heard about this, I did what any slightly-unhinged, over-caffeinated enablement nerd would do:

I went full Sherlock on it.

This page is the result.

It’s where I dumped everything I learned—scientific papers, visuals, audio explanations, and even a timeline graph that screams, “Your brain means well, it’s just running a little late.”

Questions You Might Accidentally Ask Yourself Now:

  • Why does my brain sometimes feel like a cluttered inbox from 2011?
  • Was I supposed to “prune” something? Like… emotionally?
  • Am I actually behind, or just running my own highly customized, slightly glitchy version of Brain iOS?

Why I Built This Page

Not because I wanted to sound smart.

(I gave up on that quest eons ago—somewhere between my third half-finished productivity system and that time I thought I could learn data science during lunch breaks.)

Honestly? I think I might be under-pruned.

Like, mentally I’m walking around with a tangled hedge maze of old thoughts, song lyrics from 2002, and ideas I never acted on.

My brain didn’t Marie Kondo the unnecessary connections—it lovingly kept them all. Because what if we need them someday??

That’s why I dug in. Because this synaptic pruning thing made sense of something I’ve felt for a long time:

I’m not broken—just… still buffering.

3 Ways You Can Use This Info

  • Awareness: You’re not lazy or chaotic. Your brain might just be on a different cleaning schedule.
  • Reframe It: Maybe your mental “noise” is creative overflow. Channel it—into building, writing, solving, doodling.
  • Support It: Routines, AI tools, body doubling, post-it notes on your forehead—whatever works. Support the brain you’ve got, not the one productivity YouTube promised.