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Episode 48: The No S Diet Audiobook, Chapter 1 (Rough!)
Are my low podcast production values good enough to produce an audiobook? You be the judge! For this episode, an experimental reading of Chapter 1 of the No S…
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Everyday Systems #47: The Heroics of Tidiness
Habit is powerful. But is it always the answer? Is there room for one-time, decisive actions in the realm of self-improvement? I think there is -- but perhaps…
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Everyday Systems #46: S-Days vs. Cheat Days
In which the subtle but crucial difference between S-days and Cheat Days is expounded upon.
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Everyday Systems #44: The Return of the General
Long term planning with index cards is back! You can now capture your entire life strategy, operations, and tactics in three index cards.
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Everyday Systems #43: Scribal Filter and medium-term task management
No-tech medium term task managment with index cards.
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42 Everyday Systems#42: Personal Punch Cards Redux
Low-tech, high-psychology productivity tracking gets even simpler.
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Everyday Systems #41: The "What the Hell" effect and negative qualification
The "what the hell" effect sounds funny but it can seriously screw you up. How can everyday systems practitioners defend against it?
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Everyday Systems #40: No Solitary Snacking -- Even on S days
Hate your S-days because they make you feel out of control? Here's a mod to help you enjoy them again.
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Everyday Systems #39: Lawful Good Biker
Change your biker-alignment to Lawful Good. Be flamboyantly, comically observant of traffic rules.
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Everyday Systems #38: 14 minutes of ANYTHING
Shovelglove without the sledgehammer. Or at least, without making the sledgehammer a requirement.
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Everyday Systems #37: Mods and Tweaks Trilogy Part 3: When a mere mod isn't enough
How to roll your own everyday system from scratch. Introducing the idea of Systematic Moderation.
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Everyday Systems #36: Mods and Tweaks Trilogy Part I: How To Tweak
Still want to tweak an Everyday System? Here's how.
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Everyday Systems #35: Mods and Tweaks Trilogy Part I: To Tweak Or Not To Tweak
Want to modify an Everyday System? It's possible -- but risky, as this episode emphasizes. Subtitled: "In Praise of Vanilla."
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Everyday Systems #34: S-days Gone Wild
Feel like over the top S-days are undoing all your hard work during the week? Here's how to diagnose and correct this problem.
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Everyday Systems #33: 2007 Annual Compliance Review
How well do I practice what I preach? What level of compliance is necessary for big picture success? What's the hardest everyday system? I attempt to answer…
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Everyday Systems #32: The Bigger (8x11) Picture
Just as your daily task list should fit on a single 3x5 index card (see Chain of Self Command and Personal Punch Cards), your life strategy should fit on an…
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Everyday Systems #31: The best piece of exercise equipment you can buy
You may think you know the answer to this already -- or at least, the answer I am going to give you. But you're probably wrong. Because it's not a…
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Everyday Systems Podcast #30: Introducing the HabitCal
Track your habits with this free, simple, and visually compelling online tool.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #29: Top 5 health and fitness books (sort of)
I've been asked to talk about the top five health and fitness books I've read. Unfortunately I don't think I've read that many health and fitness books in my…
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Everyday Systems Podcast #28: a 90% diet solution in 2 words
90% of our increased calorie consumption since 1977 has come from snacking. So snacking is not only the biggest problem in terms of dietary excess, it is…
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Everyday Systems Podcast #27: Audiodidact (Output)
Talk to yourself -- and record it. Why? Autotherapy. Catch all those great ideas that would have gotten away otherwise. Nag yourself into doing impossible…
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Everyday Systems Podcast #26: Audiodidact (Input)
No time to read? Hate mindless but necessary chores? Solve both problems at once by listening to audiobooks while you do housework.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #25: Compound and Atomic Tasks
Consolidate well-understood routine tasks into compound tasks. Break up poorly understood novel tasks into more atomic components.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #24: Put the Scale in Perspective
How I lost 10 pounds, overnight, without even trying.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #23: Intelligent Dietary Defaults
Convenience is stronger than you are. Accept this fact. But with a little planning, the convenient thing doesn't have to be too awful. Case in point: "optimize…
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Everyday Systems Podcast #22: In Defense of "Failure"
Stop using evasive euphemisms. Own up to "failure" or you become it.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #21: Extreme Moderation
Moderation isn't mushy. Learn from extremists by drawing hard lines -- just draw them in different places. Get the clarity of cold turkey abstinence without…
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Everyday Systems Podcast #20: When you don't have 14 minutes
No time to exercise? Get philosophical. Use enlightened self-mockery, a neo-Kantian personal categorical imperative, and an existential leap of action to get…
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Everyday Systems Podcast #19: Personal Punch Cards
How to use index cards for todo lists at the three scales of the chain of command: daily, monthly, yearly.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #18: Chain of Self-Command
Organize your self improvement efforts on three temporal scales: year=general, month=officer, day=footsoldier.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #17: Personal Olympics
Make your goals fun, important, and attainable with Personal Olympics.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #16: Monthly Resolution
A month is a much better granularity than the more typical yearly resolution we make on new years, because you can estimate better on that smaller scale, and…
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Everyday Systems Podcast #15: Season's Warnings
Limit your celebratory eating to the holidays themselves. Adjust your expectations so that your goal is mere maintenance. If you screw up, don't wait till new…
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Everyday Systems Podcast #14: Top 5 Arbitrary Numbers
One thing that every self help guru can agree on is that you have to have an arbitrary number in your system. It is a little weird that the most rational…
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Everyday Systems Podcast #13: Strictness
Strictness builds habit faster. Dumb down what to be strict about with "fence around the law." Avoid punishment and reparations.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #12: 21 days and Negative Tracking
Use the full habit traffic light for 21 days to build your habit, then switch to more efficient negative tracking.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #11: Habit Tracking with the Habit Traffic Light
Need to keep track of something? Keep track of behavior, not results, with the Habit Traffic Light. Mark each calendar day with green for success, red for…
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Everyday Systems Podcast #10: Habit Friendly Behaviors
How to identify behaviors that are easily automated into unconscious habit.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #9: Habit Management
Want results? Frame your goals in terms of behavior. Results goals are just wishful thinking. Automate conscious behaviors into unconscious habits.
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Everyday Systems Podcast #8: Glass Ceiling
Smooth out dangerous and humiliating binge drinking into moderate and pleasurable moderate drinking with a 2 drink a day "glass ceiling."
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Everyday Systems Podcast #7: Weekend Luddite
For every labor saving device there seem to be at least two time consuming devices to soak up all that freed time again. As T.S. Eliot put it, we are…
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Everyday Systems Podcast #6: Urban Ranger
Reimagine yourself so that walking becomes the most important, the most exciting thing you could possibly be doing.