Experiment 1 – Titanium tea (Tim Ferriss)
[productivity hacks]
Experiment 2 – Aromatherapy and piano music for focus (Nicholas McCarthy)
[productivity and mind hacks]
- Introduction
- Rules
- Results – No geranium, yes lavender
Experiment 3 – Creativity made easy (James Altucher)
[productivity and mind hacks]
- Introduction
- Rules
- Results
- 10 things I learned from Tim Ferriss (example of “10 ideas” exercise)
Experiment 4 – 10 seconds to happiness (Chade-Meng Tan)
[mind hacks]
- Introduction
- Rules
- Results – The most difficult experiment so far
Experiment 5 – Joints and hamstrings, beets and golf balls (Amelia Boone)
[bio hacks]
- Introduction
- Rules
- Results – Beets vs. balls
Experiment 6 – Wantrepreneur detector a.k.a. Coffee challenge (Noah Kagan)
[mind hacks]
- Introduction
- Results – It’s OK to ask for things
Experiment 7 – Audiobooks, everywhere (Stanley McChrystal)
[productivity hacks]
- Introduction
- Results – How to read 3 books in one week, without much effort
- Audiobooks how-to: Kindle vs. Audible
Experiment 8 – Dealing with anger by “Inviting Mara to tea” (Tara Brach)
[mind hacks]
- Introduction – Buddhist tricks to handle negative emotions
- Results – How to achieve enlightenment by using #hashtags
Experiment 9 – Is this what I feared so much? (a.k.a. Stoic week) (Tim Ferriss, Seneca)
[mind hacks]
- Introduction – Microdosing worst case scenarios
- Results – On poverty and hopelessness
Experiment 10 – Fear Setting exercise (Tim Ferriss)
[mind hacks]
- Tim’s TED talk about overcoming fear with a little of Stoic help – Why you should define your fears instead of your goals
- Introduction – Fear-setting exercise
- Results – We are afraid of taking action, but what we should really fear is staying in the same place
Experiment 11 – The Care Bear Stare (power of groups; Shay Carl)
[productivity and mind hacks]
- Introduction – How a group of people can create “Care Bear stare”
- Results – I still suck at small-talk but I found a way how to enjoy meeting new people
- 5 productivity hacks – presentation for Life Hackers Singapore meetup (created as part of this experiment)
Experiment 12 – The zero gravity experience
[mind hacks]
- Experimenting in zero gravity – How I was weightless
Experiment 13 – Keeping track of good things (Seth Godin)
[mind hacks]
- Introduction – Keeping track of negative things sets the wrong narrative, can we change it?
- Results – How keeping of good things made me do more good things
Experiment 14 – Don’t depend on caffeine (Jocko Willink)
[mind hacks]
- Introduction – Life without caffeine?
- Results – Why I will not give up coffee
Experiment 15 – Testing faster typing with Dvorak keyboard (Matt Mullenweg)
[productivity hacks]
- Introduction + results – Testing the famous Dvorak keyboard (and giving up)
Experiment 16 – Intermittent fasting (Dominic D’Agostino, Peter Attia, Wim Hof and others)
[health/longevity hacks]
- Introduction + results – Why is IF getting so popular (hint: health and longevity), how to do it (safely), and why I won’t change my fasting regimen
Experiment 17 – Life Hacks : Better Sleep (Continuing Care Bear Stare experiment)
[health and productivity hacks]
- Life Hacks : Better Sleep presentation – My presentation for Life Hackers Singapore group, includes lots of advice for improving sleep from managing the blue light exposure and temperature, through supplements to timing of activities
Experiment 18 – How to remember anything you learn (Continuing Care Bear Stare experiment)
[productivity hacks]
- How to remember anything you learn presentation – Using spaced repetition to remember useful things. This is another presentation for Life Hackers Singapore group, prepared and presented by Magnus.
Experiment 20 – Another advice from YouTube celebrity? (Learn from your future self; Shay Carl)
[life strategy hacks]
- Introduction – What advice would 10 year older version of yourself give to you?
- Results – How I can use this to do things now that will be important even in 10 years
Experiment 21 – Priming as a morning ritual to kick ass (Tony Robbins)
[energy hacks]
- Introduction – “Priming” as 3 step process to start morning in high energy state
- Results – On the value of pre-living of what you want to achieve
Inbetweenosode: Best and most useful experiments of 2017
Experiment 22 – Looking differently on how and what people give (Gabby Reece)
- Introduction – Why the same thing is a different thing when done by different person
- Results – When the little thing could be the big thing
Experiment 23 – Practice going first (Gabby Reece)
- Introduction – Practice going first – smile first, greet first
- Results – Mixed results of going first
Experiment 24 – Better than your mom’s lullaby (Justin Boreta)
- Results – Max Richter’s album “From Sleep” one of the most calming recordings I’ve ever heard
Experiment 25 – Floating instead of psychedelics
- (ongoing)
