Week 1 – Titanium tea (Tim Ferriss)
[productivity hacks]
Week 2 – Aromatherapy and piano music for focus (Nicholas McCarthy)
[productivity and mind hacks]
- Introduction
- Rules
- Results – No geranium, yes lavender
Week 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)
Week 4 – 10 seconds to happiness (Chade-Meng Tan)
[mind hacks]
- Introduction
- Rules
- Results – The most difficult experiment so far
Week 5 – Joints and hamstrings, beets and golf balls (Amelia Boone)
[bio hacks]
- Introduction
- Rules
- Results – Beets vs. balls
Week 6 – Wantrepreneur detector a.k.a. Coffee challenge (Noah Kagan)
[mind hacks]
- Introduction
- Results – It’s OK to ask for things
Week 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
Week 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
Week 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
Week 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
Week 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)
Week 12 – The zero gravity experience
[mind hacks]
- Experimenting in zero gravity – How I was weightless
Week 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
Week 14 – Don’t depend on caffeine (Jocko Willink)
[mind hacks]
- Introduction – Life without caffeine?
- Results – Why I will not give up coffee
Week 15 – Testing faster typing with Dvorak keyboard
[productivity hacks]
- Introduction + results – Testing the famous Dvorak keyboard (and giving up)
