Everyday Systems Podcast

Reinhard Engels

Simple, commonsense self-improvement systems

  • 20 minutes 13 seconds
    Everyday Systems #84: The Hygiene Hypothesis as the Explanation for Everything

    Cure all your ailments with dirt, pain and danger

    29 March 2024, 12:08 pm
  • 42 minutes 5 seconds
    Everyday Systems #83: The No S Diet 2024

    The No S Diet, from scratch, as if I’d never spoken or written about it before. Draft chapter for the upcoming Everyday Systems Compendium, and hopefully interesting and useful in its own right.

    29 February 2024, 8:08 pm
  • 24 minutes 51 seconds
    Everyday Systems #82: Clock & Calendar, Your Sword & Shield

    Build habits by leaning on the clock and calendar rather than fighting against them. Beyond N and S days. Cutesy task phrases. Powerfully silly times. Calendar-First Tasking.

    31 January 2024, 7:34 pm
  • 25 minutes 21 seconds
    Everyday Systems #81: State of the Systems 2023

    Annual update on all the Everyday Systems and how they are doing for me personally 

    29 December 2023, 11:48 am
  • 29 minutes 10 seconds
    Everyday Systems #80: Antimantras & Repetitive Thought Injuries

    I think I mix about 14 metaphors in this episode:  We’ve got a goose-stepping white bear baseball player with devil horns doing jiu jitsu on the death star. A ridiculous Chimera, if you put it all together. But maybe just the guardian-gargoyle image you need to keep the antimantras at bay.

    30 November 2023, 6:08 pm
  • 13 minutes 47 seconds
    Everyday Systems #79: My Pet Demon

    Self-saboteur? Time to stop playing with your pet demons (maybe).

    25 October 2023, 4:57 pm
  • 19 minutes 45 seconds
    Everyday Systems #78: Spider Hunter, a CBT for Anxiety Game

    Anxious? Here's a fun technique for getting over it. It's halfway between gamified mindfulness and exposure therapy.

    27 September 2023, 4:43 pm
  • 19 minutes 45 seconds
    Everyday Systems #77: Aristotelian Self-Portrait

    Aristotle: "You are what you repeatedly do." Well, what do you repeatedly do? In this episode, an exercise for finding out.

    31 August 2023, 6:59 pm
  • 33 minutes 24 seconds
    Everyday Systems #76: My Friend, ChatGPT

    Practice being human with AI

    22 July 2023, 11:34 am
  • 12 minutes 13 seconds
    Everyday Systems #75: Apps for Mentats

    Everyday Systems as Apps for Human Minds.

    31 May 2023, 5:15 pm
  • 10 minutes 35 seconds
    Everyday Systems #74: Tidiness for Demihumans

    Four catchphrases for tidier habits

    29 April 2023, 10:56 am
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