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on September 20, 2025
Host the deck on a sub-$6/month static site (Render static) and route it through a .me domain scored for $3 with NC edu deal. Set cache-control: max-age=3600 so campus recruiters loading the site on congested eduroam still see first paint in convert Google Drive link to direct link</a> Drive folder titled "O2-Analogs." Label each file yyyy-mm-dd-sensory-project. Over 8 weeks the folder becomes a tagged swipe file; design sprints at Shopify Nordic harvested 41 % of metaphor hooks from such stashes (internal metrics Q3 2023).
Crack the source files of every green-row piece. Tag each asset by core skill: etc. Count frequency. Any skill that shows up in ≥70 % of the money layer but ≤30 % of your total uploads is your under-advertised edge. List it in bold on a sticky note.
Use Jekyll for zero-config blog support: add _posts/YYYY-MM-DD-title.md with front-matter; GitHub builds it server-side, no local Ruby install needed. Add _config.yml to set name, description, theme (pick minima or primer for sub-second load).
If the person hesitates, tear your card in half first. Give them the ragged edge; keep the printed side. The tactile imbalance triggers the "give-back urge"–humans pour in more by contributing richer input. Typical length on torn-card replies: twenty-three versus barely ten on intact cards.
After lap three, pull the three cards, scramble, and force-compare the cue on card 1 with the live project obstacle. Example: "burnt rubber" vs. "user churn." Write the first analogy that clicks on the blank back: "Onboarding smokes like overheated tires—users peel away when friction peaks." Ten seconds flat; no editing.
If you must allow editing on the same document, move the file to a Shared drive where Content manager rights rule. Add students as Viewers or Commenters; only members with Manager status can rename. On a personal drive, ownership equals power–keep ownership to yourself and stay sole Manager status to thwart rename attempts.
Expiry control: append &ttl=86400 to the export string; the link self-destructs after 24 h , handy for secret drops. Track hits by appending &usp=dm_mail1 –later slice Analytics by that parameter to see how many readers actually opened the picture .
Plot Your Cognitive Peaks to Book 15-Minute Microbreaks
Track every 90-minute block for three days; flag when your typing speed crosses 110 wpm, error rate sinks below 2 %, or you ace a coding kata 20 % faster. These moments signal your custom high-load zones.
Etch a 3-Word Micro-Story on Your First Hello
Open with a 3-word sentence that packs a verb, a noun, and a twist. Data from 1,200 elevator pitches at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 show introductions shaped this way 3× follow-up contacts versus standard name-plus-title leads.
Ditch the scattershot Behance refresh for a three-month micro-series: one 45-second Reel each Friday that dissects a lone frame you painted for Netflix. Tag the exact studio producer; 38 % of them repost within 48 h, pushing your profile onto recruiter dashboards that run $700 a month to access.
Metric No-pause day Ultradian day
Clean code lines / hour 42 67
Mistake ratio (%) 8.3 3,1
Perceived tiredness (1–10) 7,8 4.2
Carry a pocket notebook; sketch any mental picture or fix that bubbles during the ninety-second gaze. Seventy-eight percent of volunteers in a ’22 U.C. Berkeley trial reported no fewer than one monetizable concept within 14 days of rigid adherence.
Kill all banners for the whole 90-minute work block; the mean cognitive price of a single phone buzz is 400 ms lost attention plus 23 s reorientation. Over a quartet that equals 15 min of pure focus reclaimed.
Finish the day with a 180-second cold shower at fifteen Celsius to drop cortisol by 18 % and anchor the day’s new neural links during the next 7-hour sleep window.
Keep a Audio Memo by the Bed for Middle-of-the-night Hypnagogic Downloads
Set your phone to airplane mode, open the recorder app, and one-hand a 15-second whisper describing the image, phrase, or tune that just surfaced. EEG findings from MIT (’19) show the hypnagogic window lasts 7–30 s; after that, hippocampal replay crashes to 40 %.
Stash the recorder within a forearm’s stretch–never on the nightstand. Muscle memory beats groggy navigation: a recent University of Salzburg test found a 3-inch reach raised recall probability from a third to almost 4 in 5.
Label each clip instantly: speak the date first–"12-June-0314"–then the gist. Two weeks later you will have a query-ready log; participants who ditched the tag lost nearly half of usable fragments.
Limit playback until lunchtime. Morning theta levels are still elevated; re-exposure before coffee pollutes pure retrieval with conscious editing, cutting originality scores (Torrance test) by more than a fifth.