If you are feeling stuck, increase your responsibility
Feeling stuck Whenever you feel stuck in any situation in your life, you are consciously or unconsciously letting external influences stop you from taking action. No, scratch that, you are actually stopping yourself, but blaming external influences. There are some dead-end situations where there is…
How Social Media, Podcasts and Audiobooks Rob you of your Intelligence and Memory and How to Get It Back
Symptoms Strange thing started happening to me this year. I started to forget random stuff more and more. Even for simple things, if I didn’t make a list before going to the supermarket, I would forget half of the items. This started becoming more serious…
LifeHQ Roadmap Update #1
LifeHQ Roadmap Update New Features: Project Tags Now you can use tags to easily categorize and manage your projects as their numbers keep piling up. Add multiple tags to any project on the project page Filter by tag On the projects page And on…
How to live an interesting life with side projects
Side projects are a great way to make your down time more productive and fun as an adult. These are projects that you spend 1-3 hours per day after you come home from work or from school. The number one complaint from all working people…
From Doubt To Curiosity
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. This is a quote that has stuck with me for a while. It is only partially correct. Doubt can kill your dreams if you don’t do anything about them. But if this doubting, this questioning of your abilities…
Does your app do everything to leave a good first impression
What does your application look like when users log in for the first time? I know, everything looks new and shiny… and mostly empty. Empty screens can be scary, overwhelming and can cause procrastination. On the other hand, newcomers are (somewhat) open minded and only have…
How to get going in the morning and win the day
This article was inspired by a reddit discussion where I suggested defining your tasks the night before so you can get more done in the morning. Here is the follow-up question: I’m usually like that, I get a burst of energy/motivation at night and I…
How to keep a book summary and remember everything you read
Let’s be honest. You forget most of what you read. Me too, until recently. I like to read non-fiction and learn about different topics. Psychology, Human behavior, Software development, Product design and more. All of these aren’t directly related to each other, at least not…
Hooked Case Study 2: Twitter
In my previous post I introduced the Hooked system and made the first Case Study on Facebook. To recap the Hooked system consists of: Trigger -> Action -> Investment -> Reward -> Trigger -> … Today we look at Twitter. Triggers You are mentioned in…
The system behind social media addiction (Case Study 1: Facebook)
I discovered the Hooked system from the book with the same name called: Hooked: How to build habit forming products. The title sounds evil but this applies to healthy habits as well. You can have a habit of writing a journal every morning, or going…