Writing
Seven pieces, each built the same way. A mechanism I noticed, stole, or got wrong, named so it can be repeated, tested on myself, and reported with whatever came back. Most of what comes back is partial. None of it is productivity advice.
Sharpen Less
Maintenance expands to fill whatever the real work is threatening to cost you. Twenty minutes, timer running, and the tool is as good as it gets today.
I Quit Every System I Ever Loved
The grievance file had nineteen entries by week twelve. Two of them were real; the other seventeen were week three talking.
Look Where You Want to Go
Motorcycling calls it target fixation. Nobody says the same about attention, so a day of staring at gravel gets filed under staying informed.
Why You Remember Nothing You Learned From a Tutorial
The passenger sees everything the driver sees. What the passenger never does is predict, and being wrong at fifty miles per hour is what builds the map.
A Guide to Changing One Thing
That is an attribution failure wearing the costume of a discipline problem, and it is why nothing you have ever fixed transfers to what comes next.