Focus
It Got Easier. It Did Not Get Shorter.
Timed properly, assisted work took exactly as long as doing it yourself. It simply felt lighter. We have spent our whole lives using effort as a proxy for time, and the proxy has quietly come apart.
Habits
Your Dopamine Is Not a Battery
The reset everyone is doing this year does work, and for none of the reasons printed on the label. What it actually is, and which half of it is worth keeping.
Focus
Choosing Is Not Starting — and most systems only do one
Six methods get recommended over and over: the Eisenhower matrix, 3/3/3, Pomodoro, time blocking, eat the frog, the streak. They are not six options competing for the same slot. They are three different jobs, and most people end up holding two tools for one job and nothing for the other two.
Habits
The Two-Minute Rule Is a Lie (And Still Worth Using)
Do the tiny version and the big version follows, we are told. That is not what happens. Here is what the rule is actually good for, once you stop believing the promise attached to it.
Habits
Design the Room, Not the Willpower
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of what your environment makes easy — which is good news, because rooms are much easier to change than people.