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Hi, I’m Ken. I test the tech, cook the food, and read the books — then tell you honestly what’s worth buying and what to skip. If I recommend it here, it’s because I actually use it.
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- Deep Work Blocks: How to Actually Protect Them: TimeHere’s a question worth sitting with: when did “being busy” become the same thing as “doing good work”? Because I’ve spent whole days answering messages, shuffling tasks around, and feeling productively exhausted — only to realize I never did the…
- Weekly Review: The 30-Minute Practice That Runs Your Life: ProductivityLet me tell you what happens without a weekly review productivity practice. You blink, and it’s Thursday. You have seventeen browser tabs open, a legal pad covered in notes you wrote Tuesday that might as well be ancient Sumerian, and…
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A real person, testing real things.
I’m endlessly curious and a little obsessed with finding what actually works. I cook most nights, read more than I probably should, and automate my house because I can — then I write about it honestly, including the harder stuff like rebuilding a life in recovery. Every recommendation here is something I’d hand to a friend. No sponsored fluff, no copy-paste hype.
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