05 findings, newest first.
n=7 books, 65 days, 2,310 pages, and one decision still unmade.
There is a decision I have been not making since February. I am not going to tell you what it is, because the shape of it is irrelevant and because describing it…
n=9, three genres, 27 treadmill sessions, one heart rate monitor that kept falling off.
Everyone has a theory about what to listen to while exercising, and every theory is held with a confidence that the underlying evidence does not support. I decided to test mine on…
n=12 books, 41 distinct recommendations counted, 9 of them mutually exclusive.
The plan was to read twelve productivity books and count what they actually tell you to do. Not to evaluate them — to tabulate them, the way you would tabulate anything that…
Three vendor exports, one scraper, and a CSV with 41 columns, 38 of them empty.
The music study needed heart rate data from nine people using four different devices. This is the part of the work that does not appear in the write-up, and it took longer…
n=61 days, 14,000 samples, r=0.04 against every variable I had.
I had a theory that open tab count was a leading indicator of something — stress, unfinished work, how scattered a day was going to be. It samples itself, it needs no…