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The morning protocol industrial complex

What the evidence actually supports, and why the format keeps spreading

A genre has emerged in which a successful person describes their twelve-step morning routine and the audience is invited to copy it. The interesting question is not whether the protocols work — some do, some don't — but why the format itself has become the thing.

#habits #circadian #caffeine #light #mental-models #contested #stress

By Mick

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Longevity Practice

A framework for evaluating supplement claims

Three tiers, one worked example, and a way to keep one's wallet shut

The supplement industry generates tens of billions of dollars in revenue from claims that range from well-evidenced to fabricated. A three-tier framework helps separate what is worth taking, what is worth experimenting with, and what is worth ignoring entirely.

#supplements #evidence #mental-models #biomarkers #habits

By Mick

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Field Notes

"Science is fifteen years behind" — separating the real from the rhetorical

Translation lag is a real phenomenon. It is also the most common defence used for unsupported claims.

A rhetorical move common in wellness discourse: mainstream medicine is decades behind what is already known, and current critique can be dismissed as a temporary lag. The phenomenon is real. The deflection is mostly not. Distinguishing the two is one of the more useful skills available.

#contested #evidence #mental-models #supplements

By Mick

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Mind & Method

The rapid skill acquisition claim, examined

Ericsson, Kaufman, and what "twenty hours" does and doesn't get you

Josh Kaufman's argument that any skill can be acquired in 20 hours pushed back usefully against the popular misreading of Anders Ericsson's expertise research. It also overcorrected. What 20 hours actually buys, and where the "creativity over facts" framing breaks down.

#learning #evidence #deep-work #contested #focus #behaviour-change

By Mick

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Flow & Focus

Single-tasking, attention residue, and the cost of switching

What the task-switching literature actually shows

The popular framing of multitasking as a moral failure misses what the research describes: the brain does not multitask, it switches between tasks, and the cost of switching is larger and more invisible than the people incurring it typically realise.

#deep-work #focus #attention #evidence #neuroscience

By Mick

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Mind & Method

The goal-setting research, briefly summarised

What Locke and Latham actually found, and the implementation intention research that followed

Goal-setting theory is one of the most-replicated findings in industrial psychology. The popular literature has built itself around the surface features while sometimes missing the conditions that make the underlying mechanism actually work.

#habits #mental-models #evidence #behaviour-change

By Mick

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