Section of the magazine
This section cuts across all the others. It is about the shape of a habit rather than its subject: how small the smallest version needs to be, what it should be attached to, what a bad week removes first, and why a record that keeps a total tends to end the thing it was recording.
Entries in this section
Every entry carries the date it was written. The dates are the only figures on this site that we ask anybody to take on trust, and they are the reason the order below is worth reading in either direction.
20/08/2026
A streak turns the count into the object, and then the habit gets performed in whatever degraded form keeps the count alive. A tick, an index card that expires at the end of the month, and no total anywhere.
18/08/2026
Most morning routines are designed on a good morning by a person with time. The mornings they need to work on are the other ones. Decide the floor in advance, in writing, on a good day, and then halve it.
10/08/2026
Define a new habit as the version of itself that takes two minutes, and treat that version as the habit rather than a warm up. The point is not the two minutes. The point is that starting stops being something you decide about.
The habits in Habits and Routines run into two neighbours more often than into any others. The first is Sleep and Rest, where the question of the evening is taken up from the other side, and the second is Everyday Nutrition, which handles the meals end of the same subject. Readers who prefer to follow the dates rather than the sections can do that from the front page, where every entry is listed in the order it was written.