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Essays by Ken Lane — 59 episodes
Upgrading My Life By Downgrading My Phone
The Two-Hour Rule: Making Better Decisions in 2025
Your Job Right Now
A Truly Liberating Realization: Nobody Cares
Simple But Not Easy: Enjoying the Doing
Why Your Should Nickname Your Stuff
Don't Find a Job You Love
Preparing for My No-Buy Year (2024)
My Jar of Quotes, Organized By AI
Howdy: How to Disarm Your Distractions With Friendliness
Raise the Blade: Philosophical Epiphanies While Mowing Grass
What I Wish I Had Known About Training: 7 Rules for Fitness Beginners (From Kenetic)
A Complex Fascination With Simplicity
Why (On Earth) I Date-Stamp Everything
Running Your Own Race: Not Necessarily an Essay About Running
Writing For My Wife
4 Reasons to Compose Thoughts With a Typewriter: A First Draft
4 Reasons to Create Your First Drafts in Ink
The Spellcheckless Frontier
Your Favorite Pen
Let's Steal From Japan
30 Minutes in the '30s
The Laziest Way to Tidy Up
The Mindfulness Practice of Trail Running
Gamifying Productivity and Avoiding Burnout for Asynchronous Workers
Laundry in the Coal Mine
How Is This the Best Thing That’s Happened to Me?
Becoming Besties With Death
How to Design Your Inner Role Models
6 Reasons to Make Analog Journaling a Part of Your Life
Running on Cruise Control
How to Make Chores Suck Less
Determine How to Spend Time With One Question
My Favorite Place in the House to Start My Day
Two Ancient Notions That Helped Pull Me From the Depths
Who Tells Your Story: Cementing a Legacy Through Good Work
5 Reasons Why I Left Social Media (and 4 Things to Consider)
Choosing Your Shovel: A Field Manual to Leveraging Fear & Managing Anxiety
Your Clothing Code: A Guide to Owning Only Your Favorite Clothes
A Great Little Life
Am I Glad to See You: A Story About Visiting Dying Friends
I Talk Too Much (And What I’m Doing About It)
"Jump, Fatboy, Jump": A “Skinny Fat” Man’s Jump Rope Rediscovery
The Rich Poor Man: Insatiable Affluence vs Contented Poverty
The Greatest Piece of Financial Advice I’ve Ever Received
Helping Relieve Anxiety & Depression With God's First Question
Waking Up: We’re Focusing On the Wrong Metric
6 Thoughts Upon Reactivating My Facebook Profile After 16 Months
The Broken Autopilot.
Get Exclusive: The Digital Alternative to Social Media
You Owe It To Yourself to Give Your Craft the Focus It Deserves
Don’t Abandon the Tools You Forged in 2020
For Your Future Self: 4 Attributes of a Sustainable Existence
The Importance of Determining How Much is Enough & Why
How to Make Self-Improvement Suck Dramatically Less
Living 25 Minutes at a Time
My Least Favorite Side Effect of Mindfulness Meditation
Let’s Stop Forcing Things
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