FIRE stands for Financial Independence/Retire Early. It’s a term that was coined in the United States by personal finance bloggers who started to blog about their journeys of achieving financial independence with the aim of escaping the rat race and retiring earlier than the standard 60-65 age bracket. Obviously this is a hugely attractive proposition […]

I have a fairly structured morning routine that I’ve developed over the years. It used to go something like this before we had kids: Wake up and go to the toilet. Go back to bed for an HRV reading. Take a shower immediately. Brew a cup of coffee with coconut oil and do a ten-minute […]

I learned about chronotypes from sports sleep coach Nick Littlehales. While I’ve never had much trouble sleeping, I have struggled on and off with going to sleep and waking up at the right times. Your chronotype describes your sleeping characteristic – whether you’re a morning person or an evening person. Chronotypes are genetic traits and […]

One thing I’ve realized during the past 5 years or so is the mind-boggling amount of crap information that’s passed around as absolute truth. Of course, the arrival of the internet only hugely magnified this problem, so we live in an age where it can be extremely difficult to know what’s true and what’s not. […]

Update March 2026 — I’ve moved on from the dual-phone approach. These days I use a browser extension to strip the addictive elements out of social media instead. See: How I Stripped Social Media Down to What Actually Matters. Smartphone usage and social media have become very detrimental to our attention spans and the ability […]