2000s

A flowerhorn fish in a fish tank. Used to illustrate a blog about lofi chill beats for study, because my wife implied it was aquarium music. Photo by Nicholas Blackmore.

Fish tank beats for chill/study: my guilty pleasure

Lofi study beats are my long-standing guilty pleasure. I know it’s wrong to enjoy these chill streams. So why can’t I stop listening to them? “Would you turn your fish-tank music down a bit?” my wife demanded, without turning to look at me. Up until that point we had both been very content, working away […]

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Photo of a May 2002 New York Times article by Stacey Kravetz with an illustration by Lars Leetaru. Shared under fair use principle.

Carrot and Stick and Caffeine

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How a short lifestyle column, about the pleasures of completing early-morning errands, got lodged in my brain for two decades… If actions speak louder than words, then the actions that we take routinely and automatically can seem to speak loudest of all. People’s lives are defined by routines. When they try to change their habits

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