The Six Systems Model – Part 1: Closing the Gaps in Personality
January 10, 20252-Minute Overview What It Is A distinctive framework that merges personality traits with intelligence, grounded in neuroscientific research [1,2]. In…The Six Systems
January 2, 2025The Six Systems is a personality model, created by Jason Hreha, that identifies six fundamental traits—each viewed as a core…Problem Validation: The Key To A Successful Product
October 1, 2023Problem Validation might be the most important thing a product team can do. If you're not building a product that…Parrot Theory
May 18, 2023A recurrent criticism of AI, especially of language learning models (LLMs) like GPT, is the supposed lack of deep thinking…Introspective Intelligence: Key To Behavior Change
April 24, 2023Introspective Intelligence is the capacity to self reflect, accurately deciphering one's strengths, weaknesses, likes, dislikes, and predispositions. It's a measure…Commitment Contracts: Their Modern Origin
April 18, 2023Commitment Contracts have become popular in the behavior change world. One of the most celebrated behavior change applications, StickK, has…Goal Menu
April 17, 2023A Goal Menu is a rank-ordered list of all the different activities that one can do in order to reach…Transformative Practices: The New Habits
April 5, 2023Habits Habits are routine behaviors that are performed automatically, requiring little or no conscious effort. They help us solve recurring…Anti-Knowledge
March 14, 2023Anti-Knowledge is information that makes you dumber. It's knowledge that gives you a less accurate understanding of the world. Flat…Habit Menu
March 12, 2023Table of Contents If you're familiar with my work, you probably know that I believe that habit formation is a…The Hooked Model
March 9, 2023What is the Hooked Model? The Hooked Model was developed by Nir Eyal, a writer and consultant on technology and…Habit Agnostic
March 7, 2023Habits Are Means, Not Ends. Why do you want to form a new habit? For example, running. Why do you…Routinery Product Critique
March 6, 2023Routinery is simple and fairly elegant. It is, in short, a trigger delivery app. Its main value proposition is that…Fabulous App Product Critique: Onboarding
March 6, 2023Fabulous is a behavior change app that does almost everything wrong. It claims to be based on behavioral science, but…Noom Product Critique: Onboarding
March 5, 2023Noom claims to be based on psychological research, but breaks almost every rule of behavioral design.Habit Coaching: A Necessity For High Performers
January 29, 2023What is a Habit Coach? A Habit Coach is an expert in behavioral science and human performance who is able…Irrational Labs: 3Bs of Behavioral Design
January 27, 2023Dan Ariely's applied behavioral economics firm, Irrational Labs, has become a well known player in the world of behavioral science.…Behavioral Strategist: The Behavioral Science Role Of The Future
January 12, 2023Behavioral Strategy is the process of ensuring that a rigorous understanding of human behavior and psychology is incorporated into the…Behavioral Science Advisor
January 11, 2023Behavioral science has become a fad in the business world. While behavioral science insights can be useful, they are equally…Cognitive Mirroring
January 7, 2023Cognitive Mirroring is the process of representing and repeating back to someone what they believe in order to establish a…Pyrrhic Interventions: The Problem With Most Behavior Change Programs
January 2, 2023Pyrrhic Intervention: an intervention that causes a positive change in one metric, while negatively impacting another, more important metric. Example:…How To Create A Habit In 4 Steps
December 14, 2022Here is the most reliable way you can create a new habit. Step 1: Write out your goal. What are…The Behavioral State Model
December 13, 2022The Behavioral State Model is a model of behavior that I've been developing for a number of years. The basic…Fogg Behavior Model: An Overview
November 29, 2022Get my Fogg Behavior Model PDF Cheat Sheet I've compiled the most important information from this overview in a Fogg…What is a habit?
November 24, 2022In 2017, I defined a habit as “reliable solutions to recurring problems in our environment.” This was adopted by James…Hooked: How to Build Habit Forming Products Is Wrong
November 24, 2022Table of Contents Hooked: How To Build Habit Forming Products By Nir Eyal and Ryan Hoover Over the years, I've…Habit Formation is actually Habit Matching
November 23, 2022Everyone is approaching habit formation the wrong way. Most so-called habit experts and academics approach habit formation with a behavior…
