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Ideas small enough to survive a real week.
Practical writing on what actually makes you feel good and the small things that get you into flow, for people whose weeks do not go to plan.
2 September 2026 · 6 min read
You will keep the one you enjoy
September is the other resolution season, and the list gets picked from the wrong column. Usefulness predicts what you start. Enjoyment predicts what you keep.
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1 September 2026 · 7 min read
A habit needs a week that repeats
Habit advice assumes a week that repeats. If yours is an irregular schedule it fails you for a reason that is not discipline, and the research says why.
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31 August 2026 · 9 min read
Flowdayz vs Habitica: an honest comparison
A side-by-side comparison of Habitica and Flowdayz. What each costs, what a missed day actually takes from you, and the four things Habitica does better.
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29 August 2026 · 9 min read
A habit tracker without streaks still has a rule for the day you miss
Habit trackers without streaks replaced the chain with four different rules for a missed day. Three of them still charge you. The research says none should.
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27 August 2026 · 6 min read
Being told you are about to fail is not a feature
Habit apps have started predicting which habits you will break, and telling you. The prediction may well be accurate. Being told it is what changes the day.
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25 August 2026 · 6 min read
Habit stacking asks a habit to do a clock's job
Habit stacking works until the habit underneath it does not happen. The problem is rarely your discipline. It is that an anchor can itself fail to turn up.
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24 August 2026 · 7 min read
The autumn slump has a timetable
The routine that worked all summer was cued by daylight. Daylight leaves faster in autumn than at any other time of year, and it takes the cue with it.
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22 August 2026 · 8 min read
Flowdayz vs Streaks: an honest comparison
A side-by-side comparison of Streaks and Flowdayz. What each costs, what happens on a day you miss, and the four things Streaks genuinely does better.
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21 August 2026 · 8 min read
Flowdayz vs Fabulous: an honest comparison
A side-by-side comparison of Fabulous and Flowdayz. How each works, what each costs, what happens on a day you miss, and where Fabulous is the better choice.
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20 August 2026 · 5 min read
Most of the morning routine is decoration.
The twelve-step morning routine is mostly unproven. Two parts of it, daylight and water, have real research behind them. What that leaves you to actually do.
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19 August 2026 · 4 min read
Sunday writes the plan. Wednesday does the work.
Weekly plans usually fail from optimism, not laziness. The research on why Sunday overpromises, and what a plan built to survive Wednesday looks like instead.
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18 August 2026 · 4 min read
Nothing runs out by the evening
The idea that willpower drains over the day was tested on 2,141 people across 23 labs. It barely held up. What changes by evening is smaller, and easier to fix.
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17 August 2026 · 6 min read
The limit was never willpower
The advice to start only one habit assumes willpower is a shared fuel tank. Real research on goal conflict says something more specific about what interferes.
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16 August 2026 · 6 min read
Breaking a streak is not why people quit
A 2026 study followed runners after they broke long streaks, to see why people give up afterward. The grief could be real. The quitting mostly was not.
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15 August 2026 · 8 min read
The loneliness of working from home is not about friends
You have not lost anyone. You have lost the incidental contact a working day used to include, and the usual advice asks for energy that being lonely takes away.
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14 August 2026 · 10 min read
Flowdayz vs Finch: an honest comparison
A side-by-side comparison of Finch and Flowdayz. How each works, what each costs, where your effort ends up in each, and where Finch is the better choice.
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13 August 2026 · 6 min read
The September reset fails for the same reason January does
Your routine did not break over summer. It ended, and something else ran in its place. That distinction changes what you should do about it in September.
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12 August 2026 · 5 min read
Your to do list is not a plan
Feeling behind is almost never a discipline problem. It is an arithmetic one, and the arithmetic is not hard once somebody actually does it.
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