Minimum effective dose = the smallest effort that still gets the result - not zero, not max.
Borrowed from medicine and fitness (Tim Ferriss made it stick for me). When my PKM stack or workout plan ballooned, the extra steps rarely paid off. I ask: what’s the shortest version that still works? Weekly review beats daily if weekly holds. One capture app beats four if ideas still land. Pairs with Slow Productivity, Digital Minimalism, and Process Over Outcomes.
Most people right-click every link to open it in a new tab. There's a faster button right under their finger - same gesture on Windows, Mac, and Linux - and almost nobody uses it.
I figured RSS quietly died around 2010. A friend pointed out it never actually did - it just stopped being trendy. Two weeks of using it later, I was a convert.
Every time I tell someone I run my own website, they ask why I don't just post on Facebook. After years of watching platforms die and rules change, here's why I keep my own corner of the internet.
Every couple of years, someone tells me they're going mobile-only. A few months later, they're sheepishly asking to borrow my laptop for taxes, video edits, or a PDF form. Here's why I keep mine around.
I almost deleted Facebook a couple of years ago. Then I stumbled onto a built-in feature most people don't know exists - and it's the only reason I still open the app.
Month one with AI on WordPress builds I was thrilled. Month three I finally got consistent output - helpers, reference examples, and a short rules doc that stop every feature from drifting.
After losing half a Saturday to theme-shopping, I picked HugoPlate - and a year and change later, I'm still on it. Here's what comes in the box, what I changed, and where it still bites.
Leading worship with just an acoustic guitar always felt thin in a big room - until someone slid a pad track underneath me during practice. The whole night changed.
I lost my old PHP hosting (and a chunk of my work with it). A weekend of fumbling later, I landed on Hugo + GitHub + Cloudflare Pages - free, faster, and honestly better than what I was paying for.