A practical, research-based cheatsheet on recovery from work: what burnout is and is not, the effort-recovery and job demands-resources models, the four recovery experiences (detachment,...
An evidence-led cheatsheet on procrastination for engineers and knowledge workers: what it is and is not, why it happens (mood repair, task aversiveness, temporal motivation theory), what it...
What the research actually says about interruptions and focus: Sophie Leroy's attention residue, Gloria Mark's field and lab studies on fragmented work, Cal Newport's Deep Work, and Paul Graham's...
What the research says about cognitive offloading to AI, from the Google effect to the 2025 studies on critical thinking and ChatGPT, and a practical protocol for engineers to get the speed of AI...
Why New Year's resolutions fade by February and what the research says about building habits that last: context-cued automaticity, how long it really takes (Lally et al. 2010 and the 2024...