Testing The Pavlok Behavioral Change Algorithm: Does It Really Work?

March 19, 2014 in Habit Change

I wanted to take a few minutes to let you “peer behind the curtain” and see some of the cool technology we’re building at Hack The System, and my newest company, Pavlok. Since Pavlok is all about behavioral change, the first thing we had to develop and test rigorously — even before the actual technology […]

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SXSW 2014

March 12, 2014 in Stories

I just returned back from SXSW, after 5 days staying with Steve Kamb and Staci Ardison of Nerd Fitness. Read Staci’s awesome story of Staci: Your Powerlifting Super Hero. I’m back in Boston now, but wanted to show you a quick photo album of what I was up to. I flew in to SXSW on […]

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Guest Post: How Parker Used Systems To Hack His Way To Co-CEO

March 10, 2014 in Guest Post

Today, I’m proud to share a post from my friend Parker — an HtS reader, and Co-CEO of Recruiting Ninja. It’s always great to learn from people who’ve accomplished cool things — and the immediate inclination is to skim an article, say, “That’s great…I should really do that,” and then do nothing. But like many […]

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The Email Management System That Saved My Life

February 28, 2014 in Productivity

Managing our inbox is harder than it’s ever been. In fact, just typing in “email management” yields 2.1 BILLION search results. Don’t believe me?  It’s getting ugly, folks! It seems like large parts of our day are consumed with email: thinking about it, organizing it and responding to it. In response to this surge, entire […]

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When “Just Do It” Isn’t The Answer

February 26, 2014 in Exercise

Nike loves to make me feel horrible. For the second consecutive day in a row, the low is 10 degrees and you know what — sometimes, I just don’t feel like moving. But then I see commercials like this, and at 6am, with the brutal cold rattling my bones, somehow, I muster the energy to […]

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