Everyday Systems #86: Motive Mixologist
Everyday Systems Podcast
When you don't like what you want
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Everyday Systems #85: Urban Ranger 2024
Everyday Systems Podcast
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.
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Everyday Systems #84: The Hygiene Hypothesis as the Explanation for Everything
Everyday Systems Podcast
Cure all your ailments with dirt, pain and danger
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Everyday Systems #83: The No S Diet 2024
Everyday Systems Podcast
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.
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Everyday Systems #82: Clock & Calendar, Your Sword & Shield
Everyday Systems Podcast
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.
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Everyday Systems #81: State of the Systems 2023
Everyday Systems Podcast
Annual update on all the Everyday Systems and how they are doing for me personally
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Everyday Systems #80: Antimantras & Repetitive Thought Injuries
Everyday Systems Podcast
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.
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Everyday Systems #79: My Pet Demon
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Self-saboteur? Time to stop playing with your pet demons (maybe).
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Everyday Systems #78: Spider Hunter, a CBT for Anxiety Game
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Anxious? Here's a fun technique for getting over it. It's halfway between gamified mindfulness and exposure therapy.
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Everyday Systems #77: Aristotelian Self-Portrait
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Aristotle: "You are what you repeatedly do." Well, what do you repeatedly do? In this episode, an exercise for finding out.
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