Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World

To live in Kairos time, we need to shift the focus from what we do with our time to how we experience each moment—what you might call mindful productivity. It’s a simple idea, that making the most of our time isn’t about doing more but about being more: more present, more engaged, and more attuned to the quality of our experiences.

To manage your physical resources, use energy syncing to align your most demanding tasks with your daily energy peaks and block a weekly magic window for strategic work. For your cognitive resources, apply sequential focus to tackle one major task at a time, considering how your environment impacts your attention and off-loading worries to your not

Kairos expresses the quality, not the quantity, of time.

He signed up for an online course and committed to spending three to five hours every weekend cooking in his small kitchen in Paris. “I tried new ways of doing things, I searched online when I was stuck, I’d take photos and write down notes. I focused on improving and tweaking a little bit every time. And in the evening, I’d invite my friends for a

The value of a pact lies not in its length but in the insights and growth it brings.

We have very little control over how we feel, which is why it’s hard to force ourselves to feel motivated. A pact solves this challenge by emphasizing doing over planning. As psychologist and philosopher William James explained: “Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under

When your aim is to learn, quitting is not an admission of failure. It’s an exercise in adaptability. There is no point in rigidly clinging to an obsolete path when everything else has changed. Pausing is the appropriate move when the data you’ve collected strongly indicates a new course of action, when your efforts are negatively affecting your ph

I call the quitting option pause, again with intention. This not only eases the stigma of throwing in the towel but also reflects what quitting often is: a strategic temporary decision. Curious minds understand that the future holds infinite and unimaginable possibilities, including the potential to restart an abandoned experiment.

Every time I decide to simply persist with my current direction, it feels like taking a stand. We’ve been conditioned to think of enjoying forward momentum as coasting or taking our foot off the gas, and what should be seen as a healthy pushback against the cult of more is frowned upon.