What 90 Days Of HRV Data Taught Me About Stress I Thought I Was Managing
I logged HRV every day for 90 days and realised my “I’m fine” story was mostly fiction. The data showed stress patterns I never would have blamed.
Productivity
Productivity systems that survive real work. Less GTD theory, more flat setups that ship client work, side projects, and life without weekly reviews. 18 posts
Speed vs Correctness: What Youth Baseball Umpiring Taught Me About Production Deploys
Umpiring youth baseball taught me more about production deploys than any DevOps book. Both are about making fast, irreversible calls with incomplete data and living with them.
Why I Still Plan My Week On Paper In 2026
I have tried every productivity stack you see on Twitter, but one thing never moved: a weekly paper planning note. Here is what it does that no app can touch.
My Anti-GTD Todoist Setup: Flat, Fast, and Review-Free
How I run client work, side projects, and life in Todoist without GTD, weekly reviews, or nested hierarchies. A flat, fast setup that survives real work instead of theory.
My Exact OpenAI Prompt For Blog Posts That Don’t Sound Like AI
After three months of abusing GPT to write my blog, I ended up with a very opinionated system prompt. Here is the exact prompt, the banned phrases, the structure rules, and what actually mattered.
The Make.com Modules I Actually Use Every Week (And The Ones I Killed)
I spent a few weekends brutally auditing my Make.com scenarios. These are the modules that actually earn their place every week, and the ones I ripped out as pure complexity.
How I Run a U12 Baseball Practice With 19 Kids (And Keep Them Focused)
How I structure a 90-minute U12 baseball practice for 19 kids and two assistants without losing my mind. The same attention and feedback tricks I use in code reviews now live on a dusty infield.
Why I Track HRV Every Morning (And How It Actually Changes My Day)
I check HRV every morning, but I do not treat it like a gadget stat. I treat it like a traffic light that decides how hard I train, how I work, and how I recover.
15 Minutes A Day: The Compounding ROI Of Relearning Touch Typing At 57
At 57, I relearned touch typing with 15 minutes a day on TypingClub. The speed bump was nice, but the real ROI came from treating my keyboard as a serious interface problem.
20-Minute Kettlebell Complexes For Developers Who Sit All Day
How I use 20-minute kettlebell complexes and Seconds Pro to get 3–4 real training sessions a week without wrecking my back or my motivation. Built for developers who sit all day.
Sleep Architecture For Developers: The One Metric I Track Obsessively
I stopped trying to “sleep perfectly” and started tracking a single metric that actually predicts my coding output. This is how I use sleep architecture as a builder, without turning my life into a lab experiment.
My No-BS Morning Routine After 6 Months Of Experiments
I stress-tested a bunch of morning routines for 6 months while shipping client work, coaching baseball, and trying to stay sane. This is what actually stuck.