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.
Habits
P.A.R.A. Without the Evangelism
Tiago Forte's filing system contains one genuinely good idea and one well-documented failure mode. Here is the useful half — and the point at which organising your notes quietly becomes the thing you do instead of working.
Habits
The Dog Is the Only Habit That Barks at You
Every system ever sold tries to manufacture accountability out of streaks, apps and promises to yourself. A dog supplies it as a side effect of being alive — which is both the argument and the warning.
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.
Habits
The Weekly Review That Actually Survives February
Every review ritual works in January. The question is what remains when the novelty is gone, the week was bad, and you do not want to look at it. Usually: far too much.