How to Take Notes That You Actually Use (and Reopen)
Why your notes app never gets reopened, and how to take notes that you actually use: index every note by the symptom you feel, not by its topic.
Habits & Routines
How to Learn a Hard Skill as a Beginner: Ship, Don’t Study
How to learn a hard skill as a beginner: I shipped working software without reading code, using a failure log that turned repeat mistakes into a checklist.
Why I Never Finish What I Start: 41 Abandoned Projects
Why do you abandon goals halfway? A backup scan of 41 unfinished projects, where each one stalled, and the two-started-items cap that fixed it.
How to Build a Personal Knowledge System You Can Search
How to build a personal knowledge system that actually gets searched: index every note by the symptom you had, not the topic it belongs to. With before/after examples.
How to Be Productive When Learning a New Skill
A beginner’s system for how to be productive when learning a new skill: ship something real, log every failure, and turn the log into a reusable checklist.
How to Be Productive in Life: Index Notes by Symptom
How to be productive in life with a second brain you actually use: index every note by the symptom you’ll feel later, not the topic. Paired rewrites inside.
SMART Goals vs OKR vs 12 Week Year: Which Fits You?
SMART goals vs OKR vs the 12 Week Year, compared with a real one-quarter test: setup time, weekly review time, and mid-quarter abandon rate.
Pomodoro vs Timeboxing vs 90-Minute Blocks: 6-Week Test
Pomodoro vs timeboxing vs 90-minute blocks, tested for six weeks with logged focus minutes, interruptions, output and fatigue. See which method won.
How to Set Goals on Apple Watch vs Garmin: 30-Day Test
How to set goals on Apple Watch vs Garmin, tested side by side for 30 days: setup taps, notification counts, and what happens after you miss a day.
Goals vs Systems: Which One Actually Moves You Forward?
Goals vs systems, compared with research plus our own 60-day split test: output, adherence days, and motivation scores charted week by week.