Everyday Systems #71: Last Wordism
A two-word anti-mantra to snap you and your family out of automatic bickering
16 Nov 20227min
Everyday Systems #70: Surgical Flogging
Food logging: apparently it works. But it's torture to do long term. I discuss a way you can practice a limited, strategic, surgical form of food logging with the No S Diet (or any other diet) that gi...
4 Nov 202227min
Everyday Systems #69: Shovelglove Recovery
After 20 years of swinging my sledgehammer injury-free, I discovered that that even Shovelglove can cause or at least be impacted by injury. How Shovelglove principles like "schedulalistically insigni...
21 Sep 202231min
Everyday Systems #68: How to be Ordinary
Be a Mensch, not a rockstar. It's surprisingly hard, even though you probably don't have any alternative.
23 Aug 202217min
Everyday Systems #67: Demogorgon Whack-a-mole
What to do when your appetites keep routing around your rules to contain them
9 Jul 202226min
Everyday Systems #66: Right Relationship with Robots
Technology for habits, and habits for technology. Also a story about my Roomba.
3 Jun 202220min
Everyday Systems #65: Mindful Bagful
A lighthearted Jedi mind trick for calming yourself down in certain mundane situations
30 Apr 20228min
Everyday Systems #64: State of the Systems 2021 Part 3: (Meta)
Meta Systems are systems for managing other systems: to track and boster them. Personal Punchcards, The Life Log, Mantrafication, and Loose Lips Sink Ships.
30 Mar 202235min
