Guides

Long-form answers to the questions people ask when they are trying to turn what they believe into what they actually do. No fluff, no listicles, and useful whether or not you ever install our app.

• Personal principles vs habit tracking: which one actually changes behaviour?

  Why streak counters plateau, what a principle does that a habit cannot, and how to combine the two.

• How to write your own personal principles (a method that produces usable ones)

  Mine your own decisions, write in the imperative, attach observable standards, then stress-test until it costs you something.

• What is a personal operating system (or personal constitution)?

  What the term actually means, the four parts a working one has, and how to build a minimal version today.

• How to review your values weekly without it becoming a chore

  A ten-minute format built around exceptions rather than scores, and why long reviews always die.

• Decision journaling: how to record why you decided something

  The minimum format that beats hindsight bias, what to capture before the outcome, and when to reread.

• What are 'principles' in the Ray Dalio sense? A plain explanation

  The public idea explained plainly: what transfers to an individual life, and what does not.

• How many personal principles should you have?

  Five to eight, and the three structural reasons why more stops working.