Perfect morning routine
I used to think a good morning routine meant waking up at 5 AM, drinking lemon water, reading 20 pages, meditating for 20 minutes, and somehow becoming a completely different person before breakfast.
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Productivity
Systems, habits, and how people actually get their work done.
Offline-first isn't a feature. It's a philosophy.
We've accepted cloud dependency as the default mode of software. You open an app and it loads from a server. You write and it saves to a server. The network is the product. That's wrong. The interne
Francesco Cirillo never built an app. Every digital Pomodoro gets this wrong.
The technique that spawned hundreds of apps, dozens of SaaS products, and a cottage industry of productivity software was designed using a tomato-shaped kitchen timer. That was not an accident. The
Why I’m switching back to two meals per day
I started doing intermittent fasting about 15 years ago, and I have been on and off some form of it ever since. For a long time, I would go through stretches where I fasted for 16 to 18 hours a day an
Stop exploring. Start executing.
37% exploration. 63% execution. It's not a productivity hack. It's optimal stopping theory applied to how you spend your time. Most people have the ratio inverted. The optimal stopping problem In m
Luhmann wrote 70 books with index cards. Here's what the second-brain crowd gets wrong.
Niklas Luhmann is cited by almost everyone who builds a personal knowledge management system. He's cited, studied, and emulated by people who produce a fraction of what he produced. That gap deserves
The complexity ratchet: why every notes app eventually becomes Notion.
Evernote launched in 2008 as a simple capture tool. It eventually added notebooks, stacks, tags, reminders, templates, integrations, AI, and a business plan with shared workspaces. Bear launched as a
23 minutes. What Gloria Mark's research actually says about your multi-app stack.
The 23-minute number gets quoted constantly. It's become a talking point for productivity blogs and workplace wellness decks. The actual research it comes from is more unsettling — and more specific —
2,000 years of trying to write it down. Why every generation rediscovers the same problem.
Your Notes app is solving the same problem as a Roman wax tablet. The problem hasn't changed. The tools have changed dramatically. And each generation of tools solves one layer of the problem, exposes
Why Your Task Manager and Notes App Should Be the Same App
The two-app problem nobody talks about. You open your task manager. You see "refactor auth module." You don't remember why it was important or what the approach was. That context is in your notes app
How I use my morning coffee as a vessel for health
Weekday morning coffee is a missed opportunity for many people. Coffee itself is a health beverage full of antioxidents, but most people ruin it with excess consumption (caffeine overload), added suga
My morning brain dump (voice journaling) process and app
For a while now, I’ve been incorporating voice journaling into my morning walk . The purpose of this is to dump any thoughts that are top of mind onto digital paper so I can make use of them later. I’
The one health habit I’d keep above all others
If I had to only choose one habit to keep in my daily routine, my morning walk would be it. Besides just making me feel good, I realize a whole host of foundational health benefits: Movement Low angle
Optimize for net fulfillment, not net worth
One of my favorite concepts comes from Bill Perkins, author of Die With Zero . This is to optimize for “net fulfillment” instead of net worth. Net worth is the sum of your assets and liabilities where
The science behind grounding (I don’t fully understand it, but I’m doing it anyway)
Can walking barefoot on the earth’s natural surface actually benefit you? For most of my life, I would have dismissed this. But when I went down the holistic health rabbit hole in 2022-2023, grounding
Benefits of low angle sun exposure
Low angle sun exposure, particularly around sunrise, offers specific benefits due to its natural red and near-infrared light content. At this time, the sun’s rays travel through more of the Earth’s at
Hello world
I’m excited to test out Owldo . I have a borderline unhealthy obsession with note taking apps. I’ve probably tried at least 50 of them. Almost none of them stuck for longer than a year so there’s n
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