Practice

VO2max intervals

Train the top end. Build into it, and get your heart checked before the first one.

Vitality · Practice · members

Zone 2

Do the easy miles for the base and the intervals for the engine.

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Pre-sleep screen restriction

Put the phone outside the bedroom. Skip the amber glasses.

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Daily smartphone screen-time cap

Cap the phone at 2 hours a day and leave the cap on.

Willpower · Practice · members

Social media reduction and abstinence

Deleting the app won't fix your mood. Replace the hours or don't bother.

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Cognitive offloading and the memory tradeoff

Decide you'll remember it anyway, then save it.

Focus · Practice · members

LLM as thinking partner

Make it argue with you. Never let it hand you the finished answer.

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Time-boxing, Pomodoro and micro-breaks

Set the timer to start the work. The breaks buy you energy, not output.

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Flow-state engineering

Set the difficulty just above what you can do, then kill every interruption.

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Deliberate practice

Grind reps at a sport or an instrument. At work, hours won't make you great.

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Method of loci mnemonic training

Build a memory palace for the one list you need. It won't make you sharper.

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Speed reading

Don't buy the speed reading course. Read more and learn more words.

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