Everyday Systems Podcast

Cure all your ailments with dirt, pain and danger

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.

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.

Annual update on all the Everyday Systems and how they are doing for me personally

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.

Self-saboteur? Time to stop playing with your pet demons (maybe).

Anxious? Here's a fun technique for getting over it. It's halfway between gamified mindfulness and exposure therapy.

Aristotle: "You are what you repeatedly do." Well, what do you repeatedly do? In this episode, an exercise for finding out.

Practice being human with AI

Everyday Systems as Apps for Human Minds.