Guides and essays on momentum, habits, and getting unstuck.
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28 May 2026 · 5 min read
Two of the five letters do real work. Two are conditional. One is actively harmful for most of what people care about.By goaldrift
26 May 2026 · 5 min read
Some dependencies are real. Others are conditions you invented, and they behave exactly like real ones until you write them down.By goaldrift
23 May 2026 · 5 min read
If you press unstick, some of your text goes to a model. Here is exactly which text, where it goes, and what happens to it afterwards.By goaldrift
21 May 2026 · 5 min read
Nobody starts a session at full concentration. Planning for the ramp is more useful than pretending it isn't there.By goaldrift
19 May 2026 · 5 min read
A goal owned by two people can go quiet in a way a solo one can't, because each of you can reasonably believe it's with the other.By goaldrift
16 May 2026 · 5 min read
A goal set in January was written by someone who didn't know about March. Revising it isn't failure, but there's a version of revising that is.By goaldrift
14 May 2026 · 5 min read
The phrase describes doing the minimum at work. The same thing happens to things nobody is paying you for, and nobody notices at all.By goaldrift
12 May 2026 · 5 min read
A weekly look catches things that have stopped. A monthly one catches things that have been continuing in the wrong direction, which is a different failure.By goaldrift
9 May 2026 · 5 min read
Some goals are correct to leave alone for a year. Telling those apart from the ones you're neglecting is the whole problem.By goaldrift
7 May 2026 · 5 min read
You can follow tutorials indefinitely and never get better, because the thing that produces learning is the part tutorials remove.By goaldrift
5 May 2026 · 5 min read
The hardest part of coming back isn't willingness. It's not knowing where you were, and that's a problem you can solve in advance.By goaldrift
2 May 2026 · 5 min read
Work nobody is waiting for has no external structure at all. What's usually missing isn't discipline — it's any signal that it's going anywhere.By goaldrift