{"product_id":"operating-system-unknown-dayyan-james-9789819452118","title":"Operating System Unknown: Debugging a Life After Forty - A Memoir of Late-Diagnosed ADHD","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt four, I walked across town alone to find an ATM because my mother said no to ice cream. I understood the mechanism. I didn't understand boundaries. A police car found me before my parents did.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat pattern - impulse, action, collision with reality - would run unchecked for the next forty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a provincial New Zealand childhood to Japanese island schools where I fought my way through culture shock and daily beatings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom teenage fatherhood at seventeen to building a tech business in my twenties - then watching it collapse alongside my first relationship. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Tokyo boardrooms to Singapore startups, a vodka venture that went nowhere, and a yacht-servicing company I built up properly before burning out completely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree countries. Three marriages. Three daughters I left behind in custody battles I couldn't win.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt forty-three, a psychiatrist finally named the operating system I'd been running my whole life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eADHD.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe diagnosis didn't fix anything. It translated everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a redemption story. There's no triumphant pivot, no five-step system, no inspirational close. It's a map drawn backward through four decades of chaos until the blueprint became visible, written for anyone who suspects their brain has been running incompatible software all along.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dayyan James\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9819452112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789819452118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dayyan James\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/29\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d","brand":"Dayyan James","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874536796415,"sku":"9789819452118","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/operating-system-unknown-dayyan-james-9789819452118","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}