Wellbeing
Your Body Clock Cannot Read a Clock
In July the US House voted to put the country on daylight saving time for good. The sleep researchers want the opposite setting, and their reason holds whatever the Senate decides.
Wellbeing
The People You Do Not Count
Loneliness keeps rising among people who have friends, which sounds like a contradiction until you notice what actually went missing. It was never friendship. It was everyone else.
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.
Wellbeing
Sleep Is the First Habit, Not the Last
It is the one people sacrifice to make room for the others, which is roughly like selling the foundations to pay for the roof. On the habit that quietly determines whether any of the rest are possible.
Training
5 A.M. Is Not the Point
The morning routine has become the most oversold product in self-improvement. What the early risers are actually buying is available at several other hours, and it is not the hour.
Wellbeing
Friendship Needs a Calendar
We accept that fitness requires scheduling and find it faintly grim to apply the same logic to the people we love. The grimness is misplaced; the drift is what should worry us.
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.