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
AI was supposed to make work lighter, yet the people using it the most are hitting a new kind of burnout: AI brain fry. This article breaks down the 4-phase mechanism behind AI burnout, why productivity peaks at just three tools, and how the F.A.K.E. Framework (Focus · Alignment · Knowledg
