Learn: screen-time auditing, done properly

How to Run a Screen-Time Audit on Yourself (the 5-Second Method)

A step-by-step self screen-time audit: capture every 5 seconds, aggregate the metadata, and find the repeat behaviors eating 30+ minutes of your day.

7 min read

Context Switching Is Costing You More Than an Hour a Day — Here's the Math

The real cost of context switching for knowledge workers: what the research says, how to measure your own switch rate, and the fixes that actually stick.

6 min read

Stop Polling: Replace Your Morning Check-Everything Loop With One Digest

How to spot a polling loop in your screen data and replace eight page-checks with a single scheduled morning digest.

5 min read

The Hidden GDP in Tiny Inefficiencies: Why 15 Seconds Matters

Why micro-inefficiencies — a 15-second menu journey, a 250ms tool lag — compound into hours per month, and how to hunt them systematically.

6 min read

Auditing Your Workflow With Cheap AI Models: Token Math, Prompt Design, and the Observations-Ledger Pattern

How to build a cheap-AI daily audit of your own workflow: token math, prompt design, and the observations-ledger pattern that keeps briefs s

How to automate the repetitive computer tasks you don't notice you're doing

A ranked, arithmetic-backed guide to automating repetitive computer work — hotkeys, text expanders, scripts, extensions — by payoff per minu

What tab hoarding actually costs: the attention math and the one-hotkey session fix

Tab hoarding isn't clutter, it's a tax. We run the arithmetic on switch costs, memory load, and re-orientation time, then fix it with one ho

How to protect deep work blocks using your own screen data (not calendar theory)

Deep work blocks fail for mechanical reasons your calendar can't see. Here's how to find and fix them using your own screen-time data.

How Often Do You Actually Check Email? Measuring the Habit With 5-Second Sampling

How often do you really check email? A 5-second sampling method quantifies it, then a 3-window batching fix cuts the cost by 40-60 minutes/d

How to measure your context switching on Windows (three ways, from free to fully automated)

Three ways to measure context switching on Windows, from a manual tally sheet to a fully automated local watcher, with real arithmetic.

The notification audit: which alerts earn their interruption, measured, and how to silence the rest

Most phone alerts fail a simple cost-benefit test. Here's how to measure interruption cost per app and cut notifications that don't earn the

Onboarding accelerator: how a one-week screen audit finds the SOPs and shortcuts nobody told the new hire

A one-week screen audit for new hires surfaces the SOPs, shortcuts, and dead-clicks nobody wrote down. Here's the arithmetic and the method.

The one-week time audit: a day-by-day plan from first capture to first fixed leak

A seven-day plan for auditing your screen time: what to capture each day, how to read the data, and which leak to fix first.