“For purposiveness means that we are more concerned with the remote future results of our actions than with their own quality or their immediate effects on our own environment.” — Oliver Burkeman quoting John Maynard Keynes. I’ve been thinking about this concept a lot lately. In 1930, Keynes published Economic

I spend an inordinate amount of time searching for things I know I have written down. My digital notes are a vast, searchable repository of everything I have thought over the last few years, yet I often feel completely lost within them. I type a thought, I scroll down, and

There is something fundamentally sad about watching a product push forward with new features instead of fixing the issues it already has. It feels like watching someone add a second story to a house when the basement is flooded. You know it is going to cause problems down the line,

I love doing hard things. Always have. There's something about pushing yourself through something difficult that makes everything else easier. When I've slogged away for more than 3 hours running, the rest of my day seems simple in comparison. I'm never going to win

I have a huge issue with overcomplicating the rules I live by. I look for productivity systems to manage my work or philosophies to explain my feelings. I want a scorecard. I want to know that if I tick the right boxes, whether that’s closing my Apple Watch rings

Tonight I felt flat. My wife's been ill for what feels like an age, Lucie's been really poorly, and I've been doing everything. The washing, the cooking, the school runs, the worry. There's no easy way to say it. I'm