Experiments, failures, AI tooling, and surviving the work grind without depleting your HP.
AI made starting free. Finishing still runs through one person: you. Here is what a WIP limit is, how to pick your number, what to do when it is full, and how to test it for 14 days.
An agent without a job, a schedule and a stop rule is a pet project. Here is how to run AI agents so they give you energy back instead of more to check.
A prompt is disposable. A rule compounds. Here is the five-part template for a team working agreement for AI, where the human checkpoints go, and how to write version one in an hour.
Your backlog is a queue of unmade decisions, not a to-do list. Here is the 4-question LEAF filter to run before you hand anything to AI, plus the guardrails for what survives.
Sustainable productivity is doing meaningful work at a pace you can keep for years. Here is the definition, the LEAF filter, the 4 TSP Power-ups and a 14-day experiment to start.
Two versions: Google Sheets and Notion. For the handful of habits that hold everything else up.
This isn't a to-do list. It's a neurological alignment system — use it to protect your focus hardware.
What if the reason your 5 a.m. routine failed wasn’t lack of discipline, but biology? This article reveals why 65% of people are “Third Birds” whose cognitive peak hits mid-morning, not at dawn. Drawing on Daniel Pink’s research, it maps the three chronotypes (Larks, Third Birds, Owls), ex
The April Experiment is a 30‑day slow productivity lab in the middle of an AI boom that keeps telling us to move faster. Instead of adding more tools, I cut my AI stack from eleven to three, rebuilt my weeks around deep work, and used the F.A.K.E. Framework to delete the “AI made it easy”
Six months ago, I was running 11 AI tools at once; and drowning in them. BCG research on 1,488 workers confirms it’s not just me: productivity peaks at 2–3 tools and drops sharply at 4 or more. In this article, I share how I cut my AI stack down to 3, the F.A.K.E. Framework I used to filte
