During 2022, I spent 9 months posting frequently on Medium before becoming dissatisfied with the platform. Here are all the posts I did on Medium, with friend links to ensure you can read them without a membership. They’re loosely ordered by whatever groupings I felt like.
Books
I Read 159 Books in 2021, Here Are the Ones I Couldn’t Stop Talking About
9 Mostly Unhelpful Habits That Helped Me Read 159 Books Last Year
My New Favorite Math Book Helps Everyone See the Beauty and Humanity of Math
Math/Science Ideas Applied to Life
3 Ways Complexity Science Can Help You Understand the World Better
Your Productivity Is Not Optimal and That’s Okay
How Probability Theory Can Change the Way You See Failure and Success
Solving Society’s Grand Challenges Requires Play
How to Maintain Work-Life Balance by Thinking like a Rocket Scientist
Tai Chi/Body Work Inspired
Nine Years Training Personal Sensitivity Has Lead to These 3 Mindsets
Adding Effort Can Help You Relax and Stop Chasing Distraction
Leaving Your Comfort Zone Doesn’t Need to Be That Hard
How Tai Chi Can Help You Sort Through the Productivity Advice Noise
How Standing Meditation Can Help You Focus on The Feeling of Growth
Can Treating Your Routine as a Practice Help It Work Better for You?
The 70 Percent Rule: How to Effortlessly Build More Energy
Improv Inspired
Stop Waiting, You Are All You Need to Be Creative
The Rules of Improv Are About Fear, Here’s Why It Matters
9 Hard-won Lessons on Creativity from 7 Years of Solo Improv
Creativity/Process
Why I’m writing about creativity, not productivity
An Image from Twyla Tharp That Keeps Me Going Through Creative Slumps
One Unintuitive Psychological Benefit That Comes from Writing
7 Simple Creative Problem Solving Lessons from Jigsaw Puzzles
How Plants Help Us Grow Sustainably: A Better Model for Personal Growth
How Isaac Asimov Wrote 500+ Books, in His Own Words
Have Your Cake and (Mostly) Eat It Too with the New 80/20
Mental Toughness Is Not About Habit Streaks
Satire
Stop Having a Weak Brain with Brain Gain
My Favorite Spring Growth Hack
I Solved Morning Routines! It’s Done Now.
How Continual Improvement Helped Me Write 38,000 Novels a Day
17 Reasons I Don’t Want to Write List Articles
Ultimize Your Life with a 10 Step Program Proven to Make Me Money
WE HAVE MADE SCIENCE
Short form pieces (less than 150 words)
Interacting with the World Should Be More than Just Connection sf
When Science Helps Us Be More Mindful
How Stillness Builds Purposeful Movement
My Rule for Conquering Creative Negative Self Talk
A Physical Example to Understand Mindfulness
The Endurance Creative
Self-guided Reading as Intuitive Eating
One Habit That Changed My Relationship with Processed Foods
How Math Can Help You Make History Today
Flo Milli on Prioritizing Money
How to Triple Check Advice on the Good Life
Scientific Writing Prepared Me For Short-form Writing
How Freewriting Helped Me Escape the Shoulds
Do you write only answers? Do you ever write about your questions?
I No Longer Feel like a Failure at the End of a Habit Streak
How Islam Can Help You Maintain Your Habits While Traveling
A Martial Arts Quote on the Secret of the Ordinary
MISC
Scrum by Any Other Name Would Suck as Bad
One Simple Metric to Help Decide Between Vegetarian Protein Sources for Fat Loss
I’m Sick of Diets, Here’s What I’m Doing Now
