Writing

Essays on habits, routines, and building tools that get out of the way.

  1. Why Patter has no streaks A streak is a motivation device, and motivation devices are for things you have to be motivated to do. A true habit doesn't need one.
  2. Thirty years of tweaking the system All that time I believed I was getting more productive. The system was the thing I did. The work it was supposed to serve sat in an inbox, waiting.