Digital Detox · Apr 18, 2026 · 4 min
You tell yourself it'll take five seconds. Just a quick glance at Slack. One scroll through Twitter. But twenty minutes later, you're still there, and you've forgotten what you were working on.
Digital Detox · Apr 18, 2026 · 12 min
The cost of a notification is not the interruption. It is the anticipation, because a device that might buzz occupies you continuously. Here is a staged protocol for turning them off, re-adding only what earns it, and handling the objection that people expect fast replies.
Mental Health · Apr 18, 2026 · 10 min
ADHD isn't a shortage of attention or discipline. It's an impairment of executive function, which is why "just focus" and "try harder" reliably fail. Here's what to build instead, based on how the ADHD brain actually regulates itself.
Productivity · Apr 18, 2026 · 12 min
Flow is not a mood you summon by wanting it badly enough. It happens when a few specific conditions line up, and most of them you can build on purpose. Here is what each condition does mechanically, how to engineer it, and why flow is oversold.
Productivity · Apr 18, 2026 · 4 min
You block Twitter, Reddit, YouTube. You feel productive for an hour. Then you find yourself reading Wikipedia articles, reorganizing your desktop, or staring at your email inbox. Blocking apps is step one. Here's step two.
Productivity · Apr 18, 2026 · 12 min
The quality of a focus block is mostly decided by the break before it. That is why a ten minute scroll leaves you less restored than a five minute walk, why the popular work to break ratios deserve more suspicion than they get, and how to find the break length your own work actually needs.
Productivity · Apr 18, 2026 · 11 min
An office does a lot of quiet work for your concentration that you never get billed for: the commute, the other people, the room that means work. Remote work removes all of it at once and most of us try to replace it with willpower. Here is what to rebuild instead, including the boundary problem nobody talks about.
Habits · Apr 18, 2026 · 11 min
Most Sunday resets are performed rather than functional. An hour of tidying and colour coding produces a strong feeling of control, and then Monday arrives and the plan is irrelevant by eleven. Here is a weekly planning ritual built to survive the week, plus the stripped down version for people whose week is not theirs to plan.
Productivity · Apr 18, 2026 · 12 min
A to-do list records what you intend to do. It records nothing about when you will do it or what state you need to be in, which are the two things that actually decide whether it happens. Here is the mechanism behind the failure, and the workflow that replaces it without pretending lists are useless.
Productivity · Apr 18, 2026 · 11 min
These get compared as rivals, but they fix different failures. RescueTime measures where your time went. Focusmate gets you started. Deep Focus keeps you on task once you are. Here is how to tell which failure is actually yours, and where each tool loses.
Productivity · Apr 18, 2026 · 4 min
You're working from home, Slack is pinging, your browser has 47 tabs open, and you've rewritten the same paragraph three times. Remote work promised freedom. Instead it gave us infinite distraction. Here's how three blocking apps stack up.
Productivity · Apr 18, 2026 · 11 min
You close Slack and open your editor, but part of your attention is still back in that thread. That is attention residue, a named effect from Sophie Leroy's research, and it explains why a two minute interruption costs far more than two minutes.
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