Fri, 29 March 2024
Cure all your ailments with dirt, pain and danger
Direct download: eds-84-hygiene-hypothesis-explains-everything.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:08am EDT |
Thu, 29 February 2024
The No S Diet, from scratch, as if I’d never spoken or written about it before. Draft chapter for the upcoming Everyday Systems Compendium, and hopefully interesting and useful in its own right.
Direct download: eds-83-nosdiet-chapter-for-compendium.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:08pm EDT |
Wed, 31 January 2024
Build habits by leaning on the clock and calendar rather than fighting against them. Beyond N and S days. Cutesy task phrases. Powerfully silly times. Calendar-First Tasking. |
Fri, 29 December 2023
Annual update on all the Everyday Systems and how they are doing for me personally |
Thu, 30 November 2023
I think I mix about 14 metaphors in this episode: We’ve got a goose-stepping white bear baseball player with devil horns doing jiu jitsu on the death star. A ridiculous Chimera, if you put it all together. But maybe just the guardian-gargoyle image you need to keep the antimantras at bay. |
Wed, 25 October 2023
Self-saboteur? Time to stop playing with your pet demons (maybe). |
Wed, 27 September 2023
Anxious? Here's a fun technique for getting over it. It's halfway between gamified mindfulness and exposure therapy. |
Thu, 31 August 2023
Aristotle: "You are what you repeatedly do." Well, what do you repeatedly do? In this episode, an exercise for finding out. |
Sat, 22 July 2023
Practice being human with AI |
Wed, 31 May 2023
Everyday Systems as Apps for Human Minds. |
Sat, 29 April 2023
Four catchphrases for tidier habits |
Fri, 17 March 2023
A lighthearted approach to imposter syndrome. |
Tue, 7 February 2023
A little later and much shorter than last year. |
Wed, 16 November 2022
A two-word anti-mantra to snap you and your family out of automatic bickering |
Fri, 4 November 2022
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 gives you the benefits of food logging – which are real, potentially at least – without the protracted and probably futile misery. |
Wed, 21 September 2022
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 insignificant time "and "maintenance is more important that progress" have been key to my recovery. |
Tue, 23 August 2022
Be a Mensch, not a rockstar. It's surprisingly hard, even though you probably don't have any alternative. |
Sat, 9 July 2022
What to do when your appetites keep routing around your rules to contain them |
Fri, 3 June 2022
Technology for habits, and habits for technology. Also a story about my Roomba.
Direct download: eds-66-right-relationship-with-robots.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:55pm EDT |
Sat, 30 April 2022
A lighthearted Jedi mind trick for calming yourself down in certain mundane situations
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Wed, 30 March 2022
Meta Systems are systems for managing other systems: to track and boster them. Personal Punchcards, The Life Log, Mantrafication, and Loose Lips Sink Ships.
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Mon, 28 February 2022
Soul systems are systems for detaching yourself from the frenzy of everyday life to reflect, for learning, for recovering, for devoting more of your limited time to what’s important, for figuring out what’s important to begin with. Systems discussed include: Audiodidact. The Study Habit. Demogorgon vs. Asmodeus, Timebox Lord, G-Ray Vision, VC Cat, Posifactive and Weekend Luddite.
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Fri, 14 January 2022
2021 was miserable in most respects, but it’s been another fantastic opportunity to test the true mettle of Everyday Systems. Part 1 reviews Body and Spirits systems: The No S Diet, Shovelglove, Urban Ranger, Lawful Good Biker, Glass Ceiling, Low Smoking. |
Mon, 6 December 2021
An inspiringly ridiculous image to ward off the dreaded "what the hell" effect. |
Mon, 15 November 2021
Specific techniques for making study a daily habit |
Sun, 3 October 2021
How to go from "study=cramming" to making learning a lifelong habit |
Tue, 14 September 2021
A helpful image from WWII propaganda to keep you from sabotaging your self-improvement efforts with premature talk. |
Mon, 31 May 2021
Engineer intentional redundancy into your habit systems to make them fault tolerant. |
Fri, 30 April 2021
Habit tracking when apps or magic markers won't cut it |
Thu, 31 December 2020
How pandemic proof are the Everyday Systems? A quick review of 14 systems and how they are holding up. |
Tue, 8 December 2020
A system for balancing "infinite work" with "first things." |
Wed, 28 October 2020
How to ingore both of the evil voices in your head and attain comic detachment from your psychomachia. |
Fri, 29 July 2016
No S for the soul? 14-Year Jubilee updates on 8 "spiritual" systems: Weekend Luddite, Audiodidact, Chain of Self-command, Low Smoking, G-Ray Vision, Monthly Resolution, Lawful Good Biker and The Study Habit |
Fri, 24 June 2016
It's been 14 years now since everyday systems first went online in 2002. And I think that significant anniversary deserves some kind of acknowledgement. So I think what I'm going to do to observe this is give a kind of "state of the systems" check-in episode, a brief tour of how all the everyday systems are still working for me, -- whether they're still working for me -- how I notice they're working for other people, and any additional insights I might have about them
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Tue, 29 December 2015
Habit is powerful. But is it always the answer? Is there room for one-time, decisive actions in the realm of self-improvement? I think there is -- but perhaps not quite where you expect it.
Direct download: everyday_systems_047_heroics_of_tidiness.m4a
Category:general -- posted at: 4:10pm EDT |
Mon, 30 November 2015
In which the subtle but crucial difference between S-days and Cheat Days is expounded upon. |
Tue, 24 November 2015
Direct download: 45_Everyday_Systems_44__Einsteins_Soup.m4a
Category:general -- posted at: 11:05am EDT |
Thu, 9 January 2014
Long term planning with index cards is back! You can now capture your entire life strategy, operations, and tactics in three index cards.
Direct download: 44_Everyday_Systems_44__The_Return_of_the_General.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:59am EDT |
Thu, 2 January 2014
No-tech medium term task managment with index cards.
Direct download: 43_Everyday_Systems_43__Scribal_Filter_and_medium-term_task_management.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:12pm EDT |
Tue, 26 November 2013
Low-tech, high-psychology productivity tracking gets even simpler.
Direct download: 42_Everyday_Systems42__Personal_Punch_Cards_Redux.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:36pm EDT |
Fri, 2 March 2012
The "what the hell" effect sounds funny but it can seriously screw you up. How can everyday systems practitioners defend against it?
Direct download: 41_Everyday_Systems_41__The__What_the_Hell__effect_and_negative_qualification.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:07pm EDT |