Everyday Systems

Glad to hear it, Deb! Good to see you here outside the "walled garden" of facebook. Just like old times.

Dave, sorry I somehow missed this till now -- I was too focused on the mechanics of updating the bulletin board I guess to actually read it carefully!

Anyway, now that I've finally gotten around to it, congratulations on your progress and thank you for this detailed update!

Sounds like you are ...

Miran, thank you for this! It definitely takes some practice to get a feel for this kind of approach.

Instead of ticking off, I move or delete whatever hasn't been accomplished. Everything that remains when the day has passed (with maybe a touch more cleanup the next day) was done, implicitly ...

Hi All,

New episode -- hope you like it.

Episode 104: Aristocal
Posted by Reinhard on 2026-04-30
Know thy calendar, know thyself.

https://podcast.everydaysystems.com/episode/104/

Reinhard

So glad to hear it! (and glad I didn't totally give up on it but kept it limping along all these years until the good bots got more powerful than the bad bots and I could revive it).

I think I should be able to keep it in fighting trim going forward.

Main thing is the humans come back now too ...

I also moved the habitcal over to the new infrastructure (yesterday).

so now habitcal.everydaystems.com instead of everydaysystems.com/habitcal

Redirects are in place so all your old urls should still work.

There are still many strange and ancient things about the habitcal, but at least it's ...

Glad to hear it, Amy!

I just moved the bulletin board over to all all new technical infrastucture.

My hope is that you won't notice anything except that it is faster.

The main url has changed, but I have redirects in place that should automatically take you to the new urls from the old ones.

Old url: everydaysystems ...

I'm having my openclaw bot (Klaus Klankenstein) clean up the bulletin board a bit....

I've noticed it's already a lot snappier since it deleted over 200K spam new account registrations and 600K spam private messages.

It's now installing more robust anti spam measures (that don't rely on people ...

Glad we're back in business!

OK, I think I fixed it for real (cloudflare dns thing also required a tweak on the webserver). You may want to clear cookies.

Hope that does the trick for everyone.

Testing... something is still flakey.

If you are having trouble logging on the the bulletin board all of a sudden, try clearing your cookies for everydaysystems.com

Here are some instructions on how do do that for a particular site:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/888xj5/can_i_clear_cookies_and_cache_from_one_site_only ...

Sounds promising -- keep us posted!

I once tried a "Weekend and Evening Luddite" approach (sounds like a cell phone plan) but pulled back to the original.

Learned something from the experiment, at least, I think.

Reinhard

Happy to hear it! The regularity I think can actually help with any emotional baggage one might have attached to it. It's like exposure therapy, doing it every day.

Interesting! I hadn't heard of fediverse either... I will add it to my HW list of platforms to check out.

No worries at all! I only just noticed your response, so we're even. :-)

I find it so easy to miss stuff on these boards.

Glad the flogging idea seems like it might be helpful (even if only as a threat :-)). And thanks for you kind words about the podcast -- hope you find other stuff that's useful ...

Very good point, Stefan! (and possibly the inspiration for my next episode)

I think of that related but (to my mind) not quite identical problem as "task burden." Not the stress of the rules per se, but the stress of carving out the the time that some of the systems take.

"Schedualistically ...

I like it... it's a little like "Timebox Lord," except you provide the timer. Very mentat!

I am a fan of the tomato mayo sandwich as well! Powerful nostalgic associations with my dad, who loved them too. The tomatoes were much better down where he lived (New Jersey) than where I live now ...

Thank you, Miran! So many good things to consider.

1. IDD episode should be out soon -- I started it last month but then switched. Glad you are interested!
2. I will think about reading the No S site... maybe. There are many things I would probably feel the desire to tweak, I'm a little afraid it ...

Hi All,

New podcast episode:

Episode 103: Rule Burden, Decision Burden
Posted by Reinhard on 2026-03-13
I'm now practicing 33 Everyday Systems. How is that possible? Is it even a good idea?

https://podcast.everydaysystems.com/episode/103/

Hope you enjoy.

Reinhard

I will check out skool, thanks for the suggestion!

I like the idea of finding a next step from the boards -- I suspect at some point I will not be able to keep them going (though I will try as long as possible, and will certainly at least archive them so all the historical content is still available).

Facebook is a partial solution, but I respect ...

Sounds like it worked out all around!

You are doing the right thing! For many years I did not weigh regularly. It is certainly not a No-s requirement. I would respect the relationship and her expertise and knowledge about your particular situation.

You see this coming, so one way or another, it isn't going to be a red day -- so relax and figure out how to best enjoy this with minimal stress.

Ideal: ask your family how crushed they would be if you make it Saturday and see if you can hold off on the baking till then.

Also fine: take a ...

Good point, Stefan -- you are absolutely right. I am sure there is nasty stuff in that 58% (or whatever) covered by the category of UPFs. I didn't mean to suggest there isn't -- just that 58% doesn't really narrow anything down sufficiently to help find it.

Many thanks as always for your ...

Everydaysystems #102: The Superfood Cinematic Universe
The No S Diet takes on Ultraprocessed foods.
https://podcast.everydaysystems.com/episode/102/

Enjoy!

I will try to get that "rule burden" episode in sooner then... probably not this month, but maybe next.

It's average total pushups per day for the period.

My more recent aspiration has been to shoot for 4 sets every weekday, usually associated with my morning shovelglove or alternate 14 minutes of ...

Thank you both for your kind words and thoughtful questions/observations!

Stefan, "rule burden" is very real (even for me). I'll get into a lot more detail when I get to that episode, but I think the main reason I'm able to juggle so many systems is that I actually enjoy them to a degree (if I didn ...

Hi All,

New episode, hope you enjoy! (and happy new year)

Episode 101: State of the Systems 2025
Posted by Reinhard on 2025-12-31
My 7th annual review covers just the highlights from 33 total systems: how color-coded spreadsheets changed my behavior more than goal-setting, fine-tuning Glass ...

Thank you, Miran! Really appreciate this thoughtful feedback.

Yes, the listening aspect is key for me. Maybe I should sell it as "podcasting for yourself." I have another system I'm going to discuss in 2026 I hope, "plogging," which is basically blogging for yourself, so this fits. :-)

That ...

Hi Diego,

Sorry I didn't see your updated yearly check-in until just now.

Huh, probably not what you were hoping for! But facts are facts. Good to acknowledge what is going on.

Some questions/issues to consider:

You have a theory about exercise. Shovelglove sounds like it was constant, but ...

New episode -- hope you enjoy.

Episode 100: Mantrafication Clip Show
Posted by Reinhard on 2025-12-04
For the 100th episode, a clip show of course—in which I revisit Mantrafication and share an actual full clip of my current mantra. Part tour of all the systems compressed and contained in that ...

Miran,

I love this! Thank you for the detailed response and photo.

Makes a lot of sense. And I think you've perfectly capture the spirit of punchcards in the notebook medium.

The analog clock inspiration is both a lovely nod to a charmingly antiquated technology and structurally effective ...

I weigh pretty much every day pretty much at the same time and track the monthly averages in my lifelog spreadsheet. As you husband advised, Maigret, I find it helpful to get a sense of the normal fluctuations (quite a lot of this!) and so no single number is going to freak me out too much.

If I ...

Miran, I'm so glad this episode spoke to you. And so grateful to hear it.

I would be very interested to see an example of your 4-quadrant punch card! The concept definitely intrigues me.

Interesting to hear about your drawing notebooks. When I was a kid, I drew a lot. I'd love to pick that up ...

My Halloween behavior was definitely not exemplary this year, but some thoughts that have served me "well enough" in previous years (and will hopefully help with the small mountain of candy we still have left...):

1. Semi-joking: wear a rubber mask. I was a "wolf in sheep's clothing" (utterly ...

New Episode -- hope you enjoy.

Episode 99: Bracket Journaling
Posted by Reinhard on 2025-10-30
Moleskines for Monkey Mind

https://podcast.everydaysystems.com/episode/99/

New episode:

Episode 98: Practical Panpsychism
Posted by Reinhard on 2025-09-16
What if your fridge had a soul? Would you keep it clean?

https://podcast.everydaysystems.com/episode/98/

enjoy!

Congratulations! Thanks for letting us know!

I'm glad you liked it, Miran! Thanks for letting me know.

New episode:

Episode 97: Microreflection
Posted by Reinhard on 2025-07-31
Tweet to yourself, spreadsheet diaries, soul sampling.

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode/97/

Thanks, Miran, for the Loop suggestion! I will take a look. I suspect I'll slog ahead with my spreadsheets because I'm so heavily invested in them at this point and love the infinite flexibility (also I'm on ios and I think loop is android only). But loop does sounds like a great option -- at the ...

What's nice about both "surgical flogging" and "greenishness" is that they give a definite noodge without adding to the total rule burden. Without rules like No S, I don't think they'd be enough, but with them, they're very powerful, without adding risk of overwhelm. That's been my experience at ...

Hi Stefan,

Glad it resonated!

You are absolutely right about it getting tougher as we get older. Our habits may be better, more firmly in place -- but the same effort often doesn't yield the same results. Metabolism and all that.

I think for me the process has been mostly so slow and smooth that ...

New Episode -- enjoy!

Episode 96: Greenishness
Posted by Reinhard on 2025-06-16
Brokenhearted about breaking your streak? Let Greenishness Be Thy Motivation.
https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode/96/

New Episode -- enjoy!

Episode 95: Allocation Mind
Posted by Reinhard on 2025-04-30
When "growth mindset" hits its limits, it's time for another approach.
https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode/95/

I've been pushing these podcast episodes to youtube recently and getting some comments there.
I ...

Ha, ha. Thank you, Stefan!

I've been putting this one off for years, but I finally had to (sorry?):

Episode 94: G-Ray Vision
Posted by Reinhard on 2025-03-27
A mock superpower for not looking at porn.
https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode/94/

You are very welcome, ceo418! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

So glad to hear it! Good luck and curious to hear how it works for you.

New episode, enjoy!

Episode 93: Weekend Luddite 2025: The Rules, The Persona
Posted by Reinhard on 2025-02-28
Specific rules and a general approach for managing your relationship with technology -- battle hardened by over 20 years of practice.

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode/93/

So glad you liked it, oolala53.

Yes, Zeno is surprisingly Zen, in a way.

Interesting about the impact of those very intermittent mega workouts. I do believe that much of exercise is about sending a "signal" to the body that muscle etc. is in fact needed, rather than some construction project. The ...

Thank you, Stefan! I love the British officers at Eaton analogy.

I guess you could say "Everyday Systems are won on the gameboards of Wingspan and Cataan -- there practitioners learn to reconcile competition and cooperation, allocate limited resources, and practice serene acceptance, and enjoy all ...

It's so sad that rather from learning from the rest of the world in terms of moderate eating, the rest of the world is learning from us/US...

I find it baffling that the causes of obesity and these related conditions are still treated as such a mystery. I read an article recently about this new ...

New episode -- hope you like it!

Episode 92: The Wisdom of Games
Posted by Reinhard on 2025-01-28
Game mechanics as life hacks (also some game recommendations).

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode/92/

Congratulations and thank you for letting us know!

Thanks, Stefan! Working on a few in parallel, not sure which will be ready first.

Final episode for 2024, hopefully with a little something for everyone:

Episode 91: State of the Systems 2024
Posted by Reinhard on 2024-12-30
6th annual review of the Everyday Systems and how they are doing for me personally
https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode/91/

Apologies for my weirder ...

Hi Stefan,

Yes, I do a fair amount of stretching now and warm up now, possibly most of it useless, and I do it partly out of superstition (and so if I ever have to go back to a PT again, I can say "see, I've been doing this for years!"). Some if it is straight from PT, some if it is from random ...

A couple of caveats about the episode:

1) sorry about all the ".01" etc. stuff -- I didn't realize when I was putting together my script how badly all those decimals would speak. I should have stuck with "thousandths" and "hundredths" when possible.

2) after some subsequent investigation, I feel ...

So glad you enjoyed it, Stefan! We experiential learners have it hard... :-)

I do Shovelglove Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Run Tuesdays, Thursdays and usually Sunday but sometimes Saturday instead.
The Shovelglove days I'm pretty religious about keeping on that cadence, the running days I'll ...

New everyday systems podcast episode #90:

Zeno's Paradox Exercise Progress Plan -or- How to Philosophize with a Sledgehammer
Bounce back from injuries and setbacks by recasting progress as a reward
https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode/90/

The math sounds promising! Good luck and looking forward to hearing how it goes.

Just remember the Mr. Micawber principle:

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty-pound ought and six, result misery ...

New episode. Hope you enjoy.

Episode 89: Proactive Procrastination (ProPro)
Posted by Reinhard on 2024-11-20
How to stop permasnacking on news. Use techniques inspired by the No S Diet and read it like a meal

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode/89/

So glad to see this check-in, Diego!

I agree with you about them feeling like "religious practices." This is a good thing! Whatever your take on religion, religion gets habits.

I find there are so many holidays and such (NWS days) that it would be too much to add another regular S day.

As things ...

Nice streak! Sorry it's taken forever for me to pop by here.

Sounds like you have a good handle on "habit vs. calories" (prioritizing the former).

Best of luck going forward!

Just posted a new episode -- rather late, but just (and appropriately) in time for Halloween. Enjoy!

Episode 88: The Metaphysics of Todo Listing
Posted by Reinhard on 2024-10-31
Todo Lists Are Your Salvation / Todo Lists Are Your Damnation
https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode/88/

I am not a fan myself. But it is easy to administer (spam basically defeated me here -- I had to lock it down so hard it's almost impossible for new people to join). And people seem to be there.

One thing I've found helpful in keeping it in bounds is not having the app on my phone -- a very helpful ...

Sinnie,

I'm so glad it resonated with you and thank you for letting me know!

For me, all my various "glass ceilings" are mostly, at the end of the day, attempts to deal with anxiety -- or rather with my muddled, sometimes dysfunctional attempts to cope with it. It's messy and often embarrassing ...

ladybird, thank you for sharing your thoughts! I'm so glad you got something out of this episode even if this particular problem isn't much of an issue for you.

As you noticed, it does have some elements in common with other problems, and could be useful in thinking about them. If you haven't read ...

Hi Stefan,'

I'm glad it resonated with you!

That's a good question about the 2...

4 I've heard as the threshold for a "binge," so I didn't want that. One felt too paltry. And three (if actually practiced daily) would also have bumped into other published thresholds I'd read for alcoholism. I ...

Episode 87: Variable-Height Glass Ceiling
A more nuanced approach to systematically moderating alcohol (and other substances)

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode/87/

This started out being a draft glass ceiling update chapter for the book, but morphed into a more expansive reconsideration ...

So good to hear! And thanks for letting us know. "Nothing much to report" is very encouraging at 15 years into it!

Hi Per,

Sorry for the delayed response. It's a tad heavy, assuming you are not fairly fit already. I started with 12 pounds and it was fine, but I tend to advise easing into it more gently.

But it makes a huge amount of difference where you place your hands in terms of how strenuous the movements ...

Enjoy!

Episode 86: Motive Mixologist
When you don't like what you want

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode/86/

Reinhard

I'm glad you liked it Stefan! And wow, what a response!

I love your German version. I'm trying to think what I might say differently, but nothing jumps out at me. Very well done!

I have experimented with rucking before I'd ever heard the term, maybe 15 years ago. I basically put 10 pounds of ...

Glad you like it, Stefan!

I'll keep thinking about it...

Enjoy!

Urban Ranger, 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.

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode/85/

(Sorry this was so late. These "review" episodes ...

You are so welcome, Kat! Thank you for taking the time to listen to it (and post these kind words).
So glad No S is working for you again.

Reinhard

Hi Amy,

Yes, I think your epic move for you mom might qualify as a top of the mountain situation! I had to do something similar for my dad a few years ago. He never wanted to make any plans for the future and then the future just came and got him. His Parkinson's suddenly got much worse and ...

A very thought provoking question!

My first thought was to downplay the necessity of that for most people: little if anything in most of our lives falls into the moonshot/Everest category. And do we really need Everest ascents and moonshots? From anyone?

My next thought was that even if these ...

Thank you for this thoughtful response, Stefan!

I think, high-level, the way to bring moderation + challenge together is two fold:

1. "Exposure therapy" on all fronts. So seeking challenges -- but moderate and controlled challenges, that are likely to stretch but not break us. To the extent that ...

I enjoyed it as well! (I've enjoyed everything I've read of his)

Many years ago he wrote a nice little piece in the guardian about everyday systems:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... .features4

Reinhard

Enjoy!

Episode 84: The Hygiene Hypothesis as the Explanation for Everything
Cure all your ailments with dirt, pain and danger

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode/84/

Thank you, Amy! I am glad it resonated with you. And that No-s is still working for you after so many years (and the habitcal too!).

Hi Stefan,

Questions like yours are why I do this "work" at all!

I'm so glad the powerfully silly start times look like they might work for you too.

"Up before the enemy" certainly is striking! And I like the way you've spun it around to find the humor in it.

I have two month period coming up ...

Interesting! Thank you, Alex! I will definitely check this out. Looks right up my alley (und eine gute Übung für mein Deutsch!)

Reinhard

Glad you like it, Stefan!

I too prefer print, but I'm not sure how the economics of that work with self-publishing (what I'd been intending to do with the Everyday Systems compendium). I know ebook is easy, and the economics make sense, even if I don't wind up selling many copies.

I'll look into ...

Hi long-suffering No-S bulletin boarders, finally an episode squarely of interest to you:

Episode 83: The No S Diet 2024

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode/83/

The No S Diet, from scratch, as if I’d never spoken or written about it before. Draft chapter for the upcoming Everyday Systems ...

I'm glad you liked this episode, Stefan! Your question about the "angel numbers" a little while ago was the inspiration for it.

I don't have a name specifically for the getting up early part... it's not quite Timebox Lord, or Schedulualisticly Insignificant Time... it's a special case of ...

No worries, I've taken similar hiatuses (no more!).

Understood about FB, it's an acquired compulsion...

Happy lurking! (and maybe more than that once I make some more tech progress and can entice people back here again...)

Reinhard

You are very welcome, Amy! I hope I have something more exciting (or at least forward moving!) to report at the end of this month.

Glad it resonated with you, Amy!

Hi All (or rather, the few of you who are still left here!),

As promised in my last state of the systems podcast, I'm going to post a monthly update of what I've done to upgrade the technical underpinnings of the everydaysystems sites in the same cadence in which I push out the podcast episodes ...

Enjoy! (sorry, not what I said I would podcast about -- No S re-assessment will come next month)

Episode 82: The Clock & the Calendar, your Sword & Shield
Posted by Reinhard on 2024-01-31
Build habits by leaning on the clock and calendar rather than fighting against them. Beyond N and S days ...

You are fight, Duncan. I'm glad you figured it out anyway. I'm hoping to have this fixed in the next few months, but a temporary announcement is easy enough to add.

Thank you, Stefan!

I so appreciate your thoughtful feedback and encouragement.

I'm glad my revisiting old systems plan sounds of interest. Thanks also for the episode suggestion -- I do have quite a few thoughts on that subject (sleep protocols, the psychological power of number). Just trying to ...

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

https://everydaysystems.com/podcast/episode/81/

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