Experiments
Personal experiments I run on myself—tracking habits, interventions, and outcomes with the curiosity of a scientist studying their own life.
Active Experiments
Morning Routine Optimization
Testing whether a structured 90-minute morning routine (meditation, exercise, deep work) improves daily productivity and focus.
Deep Reading Practice
Testing whether 1 hour of focused reading daily (no phone, notes required) improves retention and idea synthesis compared to passive reading.
Completed Experiments
Digital Minimalism Month
30-day experiment removing social media and limiting phone usage to essential apps only.
Key Finding: Screen time dropped 65%. Noticed significant improvement in attention span and reduced anxiety. Now maintaining modified version permanently.
Cold Shower Protocol
Testing Wim Hof-style cold exposure (2-min cold showers) for energy and stress resilience.
Key Finding: Morning alertness improved, but no measurable impact on stress. Discontinued—the discomfort wasn't worth the marginal benefits.
Daily Writing Practice
500 words minimum every day for 60 days to build writing fluency and clarity of thought.
Key Finding: Completed 58/60 days. Writing speed doubled. Ideas became clearer through the act of articulation. This blog is a direct outcome.
Planned
Spaced Repetition for Papers
Using Anki-style spaced repetition to retain key insights from research papers read during the semester.
Sleep Optimization
Testing various sleep hygiene interventions (temperature, light exposure, caffeine cutoff) to optimize sleep quality.
Why I Run Experiments
Most self-improvement advice is generic. What works for someone else may not work for you. The only way to know is to test, measure, and iterate.
I treat my life as a laboratory. Each experiment has a clear hypothesis, defined metrics, and a commitment to honesty about results—including failures. The goal isn't to optimize every aspect of life, but to learn what actually works for me.
This practice connects to my work in Agentic Decision Sciences: understanding how interventions change behavior requires empirical testing, not just theory.