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Experiments 2026/05/08 6 min read

The measuring stick audit — the 7-day experiment that finds whose ruler you've been using

The 'I'm behind' feeling isn't usually about your business. It's about a measuring stick you picked up somewhere — from a peer, a culture, a parent — and have been using ever since as if it were yours. Seven days. Three questions. Find whose stick you've been using.

Daily stuck moments 2026/05/08 7 min read

Morning triage trap — why your prime hours keep disappearing into the inbox

It's 8am. The house is quiet. This should be your best block of the day. Instead the body, still carrying yesterday's unfinished worry, reaches for the inbox to feel certain — and by 10:30 forty small decisions are made and nothing is delivered.

Daily stuck moments 2026/05/08 6 min read

Narrative drift — when a story you never chose starts steering the day

A client gives short feedback. The mind doesn't say the feedback was short — it says they're losing interest, I'm not delivering. You write the long apologetic email. The next hour answers a sentence the mind wrote while you weren't watching, not the thing that actually happened.

Experiments 2026/05/08 5 min read

Nightly 3-2-1 — the 7-day experiment that gives the brain a small container before bed

Three wins, two lessons, one morning intention. Five to ten minutes, on paper, before bed. Seven nights teach the brain that the day has somewhere to land — so it stops trying to land on you at midnight.

Experiments 2026/05/08 5 min read

One change per week — the brick method that builds 100 changes in two years

One change. Seven days. Only one. Most lives don't need a transformation — they need a sequence of small bricks, each given enough time to actually install. After two years, that's a hundred bricks. After three, that's a different life.

Experiments 2026/05/08 6 min read

The 7-day opportunity experiment — what does an opportunity actually look like in an ordinary day

Most opportunities don't arrive labelled. They arrive as a half-sentence in a conversation, a pause in an email, a stray question. For seven days, you log just one a day. The week teaches you what your eye has been trained to miss.

Experiments 2026/05/08 5 min read

Phone plugged in — the 7-day experiment that ends the constant companion

For seven days, the phone lives plugged in at one fixed spot at home. Not on your body. Not in your pocket. By day three, the impulse to reach for it becomes audible — and that's when the experiment starts working.

Experiments 2026/05/08 5 min read

Plus / Minus / Next — the 5-minute weekly reflection that reduces carryover guilt

Three bullets, five minutes, once a week. Plus, Minus, Next. The smallest reflection ritual that exists. By week three, the Sunday-evening dread starts to soften — because the week has already been heard.

Experiments 2026/05/08 5 min read

Sensory sunset — the 7-day experiment that gives the nervous system two small doors out of overload

Eyes closed for one minute at midday. Electronics off by 8 p.m. Two small intervals of input-zero, every day for seven days. The body, given even brief sensory rest, pays it back the next morning. In clarity that didn't come from coffee.

Experiments 2026/05/08 5 min read

70% ship — the 7-day experiment that defines 'good enough' before you start

Most over-polishing isn't perfectionism. It's the absence of a stopping rule. For seven days, you write three bullets defining 'good enough' before you start a task — and stop the second the bullets are met. Output rises. Rumination drops.

Experiments 2026/05/08 5 min read

5-3-1 social health — the 7-day audit that maps what your social life actually looks like

Five different people a week, three close relationships actively invested in, one hour a day of meaningful connection. For seven days, you log it honestly. The number is almost always lower than you guessed — and that gap is the experiment.

HD Mechanics 2026/05/08 7 min read

The Spleen center — intuition, immunity, and why open Spleens hold on to what isn't good for them

There's a protective pattern that keeps gripping what's already gone toxic — the contract you still service for free, the ritual that stopped working. Underneath, the chart-level confirmation is an open Spleen with no signal of its own for what's safe.

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