How to Run a Personal Experiment Without Fooling Yourself
I start with a single question. Not a big one, not a sweeping claim, just this: how can a person learn something useful from a simple, low risk self experiment without letting…
Self-Experiments and Challenges
Tracking projects, behavior challenges, personal experiments, measurement design, and avoiding false conclusions.
The Problem With Changing Five Habits at Once
I keep thinking about the same choice: change more than one thing, or change one thing. On paper, the first option feels efficient. You start a “big reset” and you expect…
A Fourteen-Day Sleep Routine Observation Challenge
I like habit tests that stay simple. This one is about sleep routines, but it is not about fixing anything. It is about getting a clear picture of what my day does to my night.…
What a One-Person Experiment Can Never Prove
What I am studying is not a claim that can stand alone. A single person, watching a single set of numbers, learns a set of questions. The questions are worth something only if…
The Best Metric May Be the One You Can Measure Consistently
There is a simple urge when you start tracking a habit. You want the number to tell you the truth. You want a clean signal in a noisy life. The idea is tidy, even comforting: a…
What Kind of Self-Experimenter Are You?
I have learned that questions can guide a curious mind more than numbers alone. A good self-experiment starts with what we notice, then asks what it means. The point is to…