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My fake morning commute
If you want to better transition into work mode while working from home, try a “fake commute.” Estimated Reading Time: 1 minutes, 45s.
5 lessons I learned switching to a flip phone for a month
This article is on the longer side, but I wrote it for those who won’t mind—and it’s extra skimmable if you do!
5 fascinating things I discovered by making myself bored for a month
For one month, I chose a different task to deliberately make myself bored for an hour each day. I discovered a ton from this…
Everything you need to know about how music affects your productivity
You are most productive when you listen to music that's familiar and minimal, and when you listen only during tasks that don't require your…
Experiment: How Music Affects Our Productivity
Over the next month I'll be diving deep into how music affects our productivity. Estimated Reading Time: 1 minutes, 36s.
Here’s what I learned living like a caveman for a month
Modern humans evolved from hunter-gatherers over the last 2.5 million years. Because of this, we thrive best when we adopt some of our ancestors’…
Experiment: Living Like a Caveman for a Month
For the month of April, I'll be living like a caveman—moving 5-9 miles a day, getting as much sunlight as possible, eating like a…
Last month I made every New Year’s resolution under the sun. Here’s what I learned!
Productivity is nothing without intention. But there are countless obstacles that can get in the way of what we intend to accomplish: temptations, not…
Experiment: One Month of New Year’s Resolutions
For the month of December, I have designed a massive productivity experiment to do a deep dive into everyone's favorite (or in some cases,…
5 simple ways I gained 15 pounds of muscle
The best way to lower your body fat is to eat well, and the best way to gain muscle is to exercise. Lifting weights…
5 huge lessons I learned binge-watching Netflix for a month
When you binge-watch Netflix, especially as you deliberate whether you should watch another episode, the logical, planning part of your brain—your prefrontal cortex—goes to…
A few curious observations and updates from my binge-watching experiment
So far for my Netflix experiment, I've watched 64 hours of shows over fifteen days. I've also come to realize a few things: the…
My Next Productivity Experiment: One Month of Netflix
As a productivity experiment, I'm watching Netflix for a month; alternating between watching TV shows, movies, and documentaries for a full day, and then…
Now Streaming: My ‘One Month of Netflix’ Experiment
During my One Month of Netflix experiment, I'm tracking how many hours of Netflix I watch, exactly what I watch, how much I spend on…
My Next Productivity Experiment: Going Vegetarian for 60 Days
Going vegetarian is probably worth it for the health and energy benefits alone, but it's difficult to do right. I'll be eating vegetarian for…
My Final Productivity Experiment: Living Ultra-Productively for Two Weeks
As my final productivity experiment, I’m taking the biggest lessons I’ve learned from my previous productivity experiments and living as productively as possible for…
The Productivity Experiment I Failed Miserably: Eating only “soylent” for a week
Soylent is a powdered food substitute that supplies your body with all of its daily nutritional needs. Just mix it with water and a…
10 huge productivity lessons I learned working 90-hour weeks last month
Working long hours has been shown to make you no more productive than working 40-hour weeks in the long-term. So how do you become…
Experiment: The top 10 things I learned drinking only water for a month
Takeaways: Water is one of the best things ever. My biggest lessons from this experiment (in order of increasing importance): every day you drink a…
The best latte I’ve ever had
Not much, except that I'm hunkering down this week to diary my thoughts from two recent productivity experiments. Estimated Reading Time: 55 seconds.
Productivity Experiment: Should you take a three-hour afternoon siesta?
Even though three-hour long siestas are incompatible with Western(ized) work cultures, the components that comprise a traditional Spanish siesta–taking a break, napping, eating well,…
Two new productivity experiments for February: Drinking only water, and working 90-hour weeks
In February I'm tackling two new productivity experiments: Drinking only water for the entire month, and working 90-hour weeks. Estimated Reading Time: 1 minute,…
The top 10 lessons I learned about productivity being a complete slob for a week
Takeaways: Instead of being a slob, be kind to yourself, structure your time, and to let the air out of your tires, don’t indulge your…