Design Your Days

a journal of intentional living

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Thinking

The Quiet Case for Doing Less

A full calendar rarely means a full life. We look at the research behind subtraction—why removing the right commitments does more for clarity and creativity than adding another system ever could.

Work

Designing a Workday Worth Keeping

Most productivity advice optimizes for output. We ran a month-long experiment optimizing for a good day instead—and found the two are less at odds than we assumed. Here’s what changed.

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Living

A Home That Holds Your Attention

The spaces we live in shape the days we have. A practical look at arranging a room around the moments that matter—rest, reading, real conversation—rather than around the things we own.