How to Write Tomorrow’s One Thing Before You Close the Laptop
Treat the end of the day as a shift handover. Most of what tomorrow needs is information that only exists right now and will be gone by morning.
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One short letter, when there's something worth sending.
Why Your Brain Builds Habits Behind Your Back (and How to Use It)
Think about the last time you drove somewhere familiar and arrived with no memory of the trip. You stopped at the lights. You signalled the turns. You made dozens of small decisions,…
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Rest Is Not the Reward for Finishing
Treating rest as something you earn by finishing puts it out of reach, because the work never finishes. It works far better as preparation for tomorrow.
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The Eisenhower Matrix Quietly Breaks When Everything Feels Important. Try These Two Axes Instead
In 1954, addressing the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Evanston, Illinois, President Dwight D. Eisenhower quoted a former college president who had told him: “I have two kinds…
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How to Write a Task So Your Future Self Understands It
Most items that stall were badly written rather than badly chosen. A task needs a verb, a first move, and a condition that says when it is finished.
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Habits Don’t Form on a Fixed Timetable
The number varies enormously by person and by behaviour. Expecting a deadline for automaticity is itself one of the more reliable ways to abandon something.
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How to Schedule Rest You’ll Actually Take
Rest left as leftover time never arrives, because there is never leftover time. Planned with the same status as work, it survives.
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