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Reading Without Retention
One year I ran the 52-book challenge. Logged on Goodreads, tracked in a spreadsheet. I finished 58. 18 of those were fillers, books read to keep the count moving, not because they had anything to offer. I cannot tell you the title of most of them. That is not a failure of memory. It is…
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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…
