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PARA Worked. Until I Started Thinking.
My Resources folder was a graveyard. Reading notes from books I’d finished, half-formed thoughts that didn’t fit anywhere else, blog drafts with no deadline. Everything that wasn’t a project, wasn’t an area, wasn’t an archive in the obvious sense. It all went to Resources. Which meant it went nowhere. PARA is a good system. It…
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The 20/20 Declutter
I was tracking 18 habits. I was hitting about 10 of them. The other eight were still in the tracker, staring back at me every morning. That ratio bothered me more than any specific miss. It meant I had built a system around a version of myself that didn’t exist. The apps were the same:…
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The 1% Rule Works. But Not How You Think
Some mornings I pick up the dumbbells before I’ve fully decided to. Not because I’m disciplined. Because they’re on the floor in front of the wardrobe and avoiding them requires more effort than using them. That’s the whole system. Fifteen minutes, four exercises, done before coffee goes cold. I’ve been at 92 kilograms for a…
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How to Use AI as Your Accountability Partner for Habit Formation
I’ve tried a few habit trackers over the years. The arc is always the same: a strong first two weeks, a broken streak somewhere around week three, and then the app sits unopened until I delete it. The tracker wasn’t the problem. The accountability system built around it was. Most of them are generic by…
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How to Build a Multi-Agent Team
When I wrote the original version of this post, I used a fictional content team to illustrate what a good orchestrator prompt looks like. I called the team lead Marco. He managed a researcher, a writer, and an editor. He received briefs, broke them into tasks, assigned them to the right person, and made sure…