Monday 17 August
Fewer things.
More attention.
A field notebook on minimalism, daily routines and simple living — small experiments in spending your hours on purpose.
This moment
MorningsA calmer morning routine
Most morning routines fail because they ask too much before you are awake. Here is a smaller one — three anchors, no app, no 5 a.m. heroics — that survives real life.
Read →Reading now
- Space Owning less, choosing better Minimalism sold as an aesthetic is just shopping with a smaller palette. The version worth keeping is quieter: own less so each thing you keep can be good, used, and paid attention to.
- Focus Deep work for a distracted mind Advice on focus usually assumes a calm mind that just needs a plan. If your mind is not calm, the plan is the wrong tool. Here is how to do deep work when distraction is the baseline, not the exception.
- Slow living Build Your Digital Twin in 2026: A Public Lifestream That Tracks Everything You Consume The fourth and final post in the trackers series — flip the architecture from private extension to a public digital twin website. Many extensions feeding one database, periodic exports from Google Takeout / Apple Health / YouTube history, real-time webhooks from Strava and Last.fm, displayed beautifully on web and mobile PWA. Free hosting, free database, your data, your face on the internet.
- Slow living Track Everything for Free with No Ads and No Self-Hosting in 2026 A strict, research-backed shortlist of media trackers that are completely free, show no ads, and are fully managed in the cloud — no Docker, no servers, no paywalls. Plus the four-app combo that covers movies, TV, anime, manga, games, and books together.
- Slow living Track Everything via APIs in 2026: A Free, No-Self-Hosting Browser-Extension Stack The honest 2026 map of free public WRITE APIs for every media type — movies, TV, anime, manga, books, audiobooks, podcasts, music, games, visual novels, fitness, and YouTube — so you can build one browser extension that scrobbles everything. Plus why Open Library is the right books pick, why Letterboxd was cut, and where the real coverage gaps are.