I spent a year writing about habits for dads in tech. About 100 people subscribed. The newsletter died a quiet death and I am genuinely fine about it. But one thing kept working when everything else didn't. 16 minutes and 40 seconds. That's 1000 seconds. It's the smallest chunk of focused work I'...

This post is part of the Parked section: things I started and stopped, with a writeup on why. What it was A randomized workout generator. You'd open it, hit a button, and get a workout calibrated to the time you had, the equipment available, and your energy level. The pitch was "no decision fat...

For the last year and change I ran a newsletter called Time Well Spent, on a site called Dad Habits. 17 issues. About 100 subscribers. Maybe a dozen of them got real value out of it. It didn't work. Not because the writing was bad. Not because the audience didn't exist. It didn't work because "da...