How My Work Will Benefit You
One question drives everything I write. How do you reclaim your attention so you can find and do your Great Work?
I answer it with two tools most writers keep apart. One is the science I use every day as a physician. The other is the contemplative practice I keep every day as a person.
My writing focuses on topics like…
- How to protect your attention in a world built to take it
- How to find the work that is truly yours
- How meditation, sleep, exercise and diet power everything else
- How to get very good at hard things
- How to build healthy habits with the people you love
Most of all, I write about how to put these ideas into practice in daily life.
The Great Work Experiment
When I studied for my pain medicine boards, I used a simple method. One primary source. One secondary source. Daily review with spaced repetition. Full immersion, no shortcuts. It took me to the 99th percentile.
This site is where I test that method on bigger questions. Can the rules that worked for one exam help you find your life's work, train a calmer mind, or get a whole family moving? I run the experiment in public, one Note at a time.