Notes on focus, study habits and building a calmer setup.
Productivity · Apr 18, 2026 · 12 min
Freedom covers every device you own, including your phone. Deep Focus goes deeper on one device and structures the work instead of only walling it off. The choice comes down to which screen is actually beating you, and here is how to tell.
Productivity · Apr 18, 2026 · 3 min
Your team needs you available. Deep Focus blocks everything. How do you balance focus with collaboration? Here's the system that works.
Productivity · Apr 18, 2026 · 3 min
Coffee shops are loud, chaotic, and full of distractions. So why do so many people focus better there than in silence? The answer isn't what you think.
Habits · Apr 18, 2026 · 11 min
Most weekly reviews decay into inbox triage within a month. You tidy, you feel organised, and nothing about the following week is different. Here is how to run one that produces a lesson instead of a tidy folder, why the calendar is the most informative thing to look at, and why the fix for a dying review is making it shorter.
Productivity · Apr 18, 2026 · 11 min
Hours are easy to count and tell you almost nothing about knowledge work. Here is why the number degrades the moment you start aiming at it, where hour tracking is still the correct tool, and what to measure about your own work instead.
Mental Health · Apr 18, 2026 · 11 min
If every attempt to work feels like self-coercion, adding more force usually makes the next attempt harder rather than easier. Here is how to tell a focus problem from a motivation problem from a meaning problem, and what to do when the honest answer is that none of them is really the issue.
Study Hacks · Apr 18, 2026 · 12 min
Six hours at your desk is not six hours of studying, and rereading your notes is not studying at all. Here is a study system built on retrieval, spacing and a laptop that stops working against you.
Productivity · Apr 18, 2026 · 11 min
Concentration behaves like a trainable capacity, but almost nobody trains it the way they would train anything else. They start above their ceiling, treat every break as recovery when it isn't, and quit on the first bad day. Here is a four week progression that accounts for all three.
Productivity · Apr 18, 2026 · 11 min
Almost every piece of focus advice assumes you control your own time. With children at home you do not, and the honest problem is not willpower but the shape of the time you get: short, fragmented, and unpredictable. Here is what actually works inside that constraint, including what to do when the window collapses.
Productivity · Apr 18, 2026 · 12 min
AI chat is the first distraction that feels exactly like work, which is why almost nobody audits it. Here are the five specific ways an assistant eats a work session, and the countermeasures that keep it a tool rather than somewhere you go when the task gets uncomfortable.
Productivity · Apr 18, 2026 · 11 min
A blacklist asks you to predict every distraction in advance. A whitelist inverts the burden of proof so unknown distractions are covered by default. Both have real costs. Here is how to pick per task, and why most people end up running both.
Productivity · Apr 18, 2026 · 12 min
Everyone eventually defeats their own blocker, and it is a design problem rather than a character flaw. Here is what locking Task Manager and Terminal actually achieves, why no app can make bypass impossible, and how to pick a strictness level that you will still be using in a month.
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