Last year I wrote about habit forming and the fact that I was going to use a physical device that used noticeable colour indicators (paper and felt tips) to keep track of one single habit - cycling every day - with the hope that making the habit tracking more obvious would help it stick. Here's how I did (greens are "d...

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Tom Scott has just finished ten years of his weekly Things You Might Not Know series on YouTube. Simon Willison has wr...

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I like riding my bicycle. I like being outside; I like getting exercise; I like that I can do it solo and leave all my daily concerns at home as I cycle on a dedicated paved path which winds its way between crop fields and over bridges. Or at least I did until I moved house from somewhere I could be on that path in seconds, to somewhere where I have to dismantle my bike, put it in the bo...

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