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Stop Setting Goals. Start Running Experiments.
Goals Make You Dramatic. Pacts Make You Dangerous.
Feb 18 • Jey Jeyendran
The Department of Unauthorized Joy
Practice aliveness inside the machine.
Feb 13 • Jey Jeyendran
The Glitch Hunt
A Low-Stakes Heist of the Corporate Clock
Feb 11 • Jey Jeyendran
The Freedom Paradox
Why “I’ll Be Happy When...” is a Trap
Feb 9 • Jey Jeyendran
Just One Thing: Atomic Habits by James Clear
Habit Change Is Identity Change
Feb 6 • Jey Jeyendran
Why Productivity Hacks Don’t Work (and What Does)
How chasing hacks is the most sophisticated form of procrastination ever invented.
Feb 4 • Jey Jeyendran
The Dojo of Work
Your job is your training ground whether you like it or not.
Feb 2 • Jey Jeyendran

January 2026

Corporate Cartography
A game to navigate work and find treasure
Jan 30 • Jey Jeyendran
The Runway Framework: From Overworked to Awake to Free
A five-phase roadmap for creative professionals trapped in the corporate hamste
Jan 24 • Jey Jeyendran
Rumi on Productivity, Volume I
The Task That Seeks You
Jan 19 • Jey Jeyendran
Schrödinger's Inbox: A Quantum Approach to Email Enlightenment
In which we discover that unopened emails exist in a superposition of urgent and irrelevant until observed
Jan 18 • Jey Jeyendran
Discipline Is the Shortcut to Joy
A Field Guide for the Overwhelmed who Have Tried Everything Except the Thing That Works
Jan 13 • Jey Jeyendran
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