Stop Building Habits. Build a Game Worth Playing.
Willpower is a battery, and it drains. Here is the gamified system I built instead — four stats, the 80/20, and a first quest you can run today.
Life Optimization
How I Gamified My Life for Life Optimization (Modeling After Diablo 3 & Video Games)
Game Design and Overview
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Game Principles and Core Tenets
Never stifle energy, simply redirect it: healthy […]
How a BS, Woo-Woo Astrology App Changed My Life: The Pattern
Although I pray, admittedly for pragmatic reasons, I really consider science to be the most functional form of religion I have. And if I can’t explain something with valid backing, I find it hard to fully suspend or disable my disbelief. Of course, any person who fancies themself to be hyper-rational (a backdoor way […]
Why Group Conversations Suck (The Value of Introspection & Finding Your Tribe)
Do I want to go to my high school reunion? Not really. Nor do I desire to return to the annual Christmas party with an old batch of high school friends. This HS jock is going AWOL. You heard me girl.
Groups and their pertaining conversations if you can call them that suffer from what […]
Why I Stopped Checking My Oura Ring Every Day (& How to Prevent Tech From Destroying Your Life)
If you’re not familiar, the Oura Ring is a wearable that tracks health variables and biometrics like heart rate variability (HRV), steps, REM and deep sleep, etc. I bought it explicitly for sleep tracking as nothing throws me off course faster than poor sleep; I wake up after a terrible night’s sleep looking for […]
10 Non-Obvious Things You’ve Been Sold That You Don’t Actually Need (As Much) & Doing the Opposite to Find the Optimal
Besides all the obvious ones like sugar, negative people, phone notifications, etc. listed below are some that you may have not considered or taken steps to reduce usage.
Toilet paper: bidet is the WAYShampoo: try the “no-poo” strategy or much less frequent use. Your hair oil glands and production will adapt instead of being on […]
The Life Success Skill You Probably Aren’t Developing Enough: Difficult Conversations, Saying No, and Setting Boundaries
“A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.”
Tim Ferriss
That basically summarizes it but if you care for my half-baked attempt to unpack that quote, press on. Most of us “know” (speaking of, I hate when people say “air quotes” on a […]
What Happened When An Atheist/Agnostic Started Praying Every Night
Eventually I just tapped out. Sometimes I’m ahead, sometimes I’m behind, but the struggle has always been real (well, not really REAL, more like mental and imaginary which is prison for a cerebral person).
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”
-Mark Twain
No matter […]