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Featured · Tracking
Tracking habits: daily check-in vs weekly review
Tapping a checkbox every day is the floor. The thing that compounds is a five-minute review on the weekend. Here is how to run one.
25 Apr 2026 · 6 min read
Recovery
What to do when you miss a day (or a week)
Every habit will be broken at some point. The thing that separates people who keep going from people who quit is what they do on day two.
22 Apr 2026 · 5 min read
Behaviour Design
Designing your environment so the right habit wins
You will do whatever your house, your phone, and your fridge make easy. Change those, and you have changed your behaviour.
19 Apr 2026 · 5 min read
Behaviour Design
How to break a bad habit without willpower theatre
Willpower is a finite, tired, distracted resource. Here is the design-based way to break a habit you actually want to be rid of.
17 Apr 2026 · 6 min read
Tactics
Morning routines that survive a real schedule
A morning routine that requires waking at 5 AM, journalling for an hour, and a cold plunge is not a routine — it is a holiday. Here is what survives a normal week.
15 Apr 2026 · 6 min read
Behaviour Design
Habit stacking: the simplest behaviour design tool
Forget alarms and willpower. The most reliable way to install a new habit is to glue it onto one you already have.
12 Apr 2026 · 5 min read
Tracking
Why most habit trackers fail (and what actually works)
After a few weeks, the average habit tracker becomes a graveyard of broken streaks. Here is what those apps get wrong, and what to look for.
10 Apr 2026 · 7 min read
Behaviour Design
The 2-minute rule, in practice
A rule everyone quotes and almost no one applies correctly. What it actually means, with concrete examples for ten common habits.
08 Apr 2026 · 4 min read
Tactics
Streaks: how to use them without becoming a slave to them
Streaks are great motivators and terrible masters. A practical framework for using them in a way that survives a missed day.
05 Apr 2026 · 5 min read
Getting Started
How to start a habit when you have zero motivation
Motivation is unreliable. Here is the smaller, dumber, more honest plan that actually gets a habit off the ground in week one.
02 Apr 2026 · 6 min read