Everyday Systems Podcast

Specific rules and a general approach for managing your relationship with technology -- battle hardened by over 20 years of practice. 

Game mechanics as life hacks (also some game recommendations).

6th annual review of the Everyday Systems and how they are doing for me personally

Bounce back from injuries and setbacks by recasting progress as a reward

How to stop permasnacking on news. Use techniques inspired by the No S Diet and read it like a meal.

Todo Lists Are Your Salvation / Todo Lists Are Your Damnation

A more nuanced approach to systematically moderating alcohol (and other substances)

When you don't like what you want

Urban Ranger, 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.

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.

Four catchphrases for tidier habits