The 100 Year Man · Self-Audits
Five documents · free
Where your
capacity went
Five documents. Each one makes you count something you have never counted. None of them tell you what to do about it. Start with whichever one you already know is you.
Where should I send them?
One email and all five open. I will also send the occasional email worth opening, only when it is. No sequence, no pitch on a timer.
01The Sleep Protocol
Two years of my own data and the nine rules I am using to move my sleep from 5h 28m to 6h 49m. The foundation everything else runs on.
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02The Open Loop Inventory
Every unfinished thing running in the background, out of your head and onto paper. Most tiredness is not workload. It is this.
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03The Reactivity Log
Seven days of marking what happens to you, where you felt it, and how long it took to come down. Almost nobody has ever counted these.
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04The Load Ledger
Every standing commitment, what it costs you a week, and whether you would say yes to it today. Nobody is coming to reduce your load.
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05The Cost of No
For everything you would put down: who is actually affected, how badly, and for how long. The barrier was never identifying the load.
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Print them and fill them in by hand. The writing is most of the work.
Counted it all and want to know what it means? The Capacity Brief is ninety minutes on what you are carrying and a written Brief naming what comes off first.