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Cold Water and the Neuroscience of Not Quitting

A very cheap tool for building the kind of mind that doesn't fold. You already have it. You're just making it too warm.

10 min readJanuary 23, 2026

The 1% Audit

Once a month, I sit down and ask myself: where is there friction in my life that I've stopped noticing? The answer is always worth the question.

10 min readDecember 1, 2025

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Stack Your Mornings. Protect Your Nights.

The two most valuable windows of your day are the ones most likely to be destroyed by default behavior. Here's how to stop that.

12 min readOctober 27, 2025
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