I build systems for people trying to design their way out of bad patterns.
Most advice assumes you'll show up motivated. I don't. I assume you'll be tired, distracted, or not feeling it—and I design around that.
I write about personal infrastructure: the systems, environments, and defaults that do the work when you can't. Decision fatigue, sobriety, showing up consistently—different problems, same underlying fix. Stop relying on willpower. Start building things that hold.
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Most Advice Is Written for People Who Are Already Okay
The problem isn't that the advice is wrong. It's that it assumes a baseline many people don't have.
I Don't Trust Future Me (And That's the Point)
Future me was a crime scene I kept walking away from.
Why Motivation Is a Terrible Dependency
Motivation is a flaky API. Stop building systems that require it.