[ChanningAllen]

By default I'm actually very low energy. Always have been. I recall my dad admonishing me many times in adolescence that he'd take me to the doctor and they'd prick me with needles if I didn't stop napping during the day.

Somewhat circularly, it's the system itself that gives me the energy to keep using the system. I know, because I've engineered it to work that way. (At first this wasn't intentional, but when I noticed the positive effects in an earlier version I systematically began to tease out those effects.)

[rubicon33]

That's really cool to hear that its actually given you energy.

How much of it do you think is that its your system that you designed, and how much of it is just the usefulness of the system?

Like does it generalize well to others?

[ChanningAllen]

> does it generalize well to others?

Numerous readers have already responded saying it's worked for them so far, but the devil's in the details I suppose. I really only shared the tip of the iceberg of how it works, and a lot of the magic [1] happens down at the level of the active work sessions.

[1] Things like website blocking, task timers, interstitial journaling, pattern interrupts, etc. (Of course, there's a certain logic to it all that I'll spell out in a future article.)