INSIGHTS
Thinking about emotional functioning
This is where I examine mechanisms, challenge popular explanations and follow questions far enough that the answer becomes more useful than a slogan.
STARTING TOPICS
A few lines of inquiry the site is built around.
Why You Can Know What to Do and Still Fail to Start
Procrastination often begins before time management enters the picture.
Dopamine Addiction Isn’t Quite What You Think
The popular explanation is simple. Human motivation is less cooperative.
Why Minor Obstacles Can Produce Major Irritation
Frustration tells us something about blocked goals, expected reward and our tolerance for the gap between the two.
Why You Keep Saying Yes and Then Resenting People
The problem may involve care, guilt and responsibility long before the resentment appears.
Why Rest Can Feel Wrong
Leisure becomes surprisingly difficult when usefulness has become the price of permission.
Why More Information Doesn’t Always Make Decisions Easier
At some point, a decision problem becomes an uncertainty problem.
COMING NEXT
The article library will grow alongside the website.
The early editorial strategy will focus on the pain-point territories we are actively testing: decision paralysis, task initiation, stimulation and reward, frustration, resentment, overresponsibility, productivity guilt and related problems. That lets the writing function as both public education and market evidence.
Where would you like to start?
You can begin with the emotional pattern itself, with the way you would like to work, or simply by reading until something starts to make more sense.