NOTEBOOK / 2025 → 2026 / PERSONAL EXPERIMENTS
What is all this
improvement for?
Tea on the porch. Food in the fridge. A floor mat beside a bed. The desire to change my everyday life shows up in very ordinary objects.
The ordinary experiments matter.
Food and tea appear repeatedly in the record. A blender. An organized fridge. Morning, midday and evening tea. These are not background details I want to hide to make the website look more professional.
They show the attention I was giving to the shape of a day. The small rituals had their own place alongside business, games, friends and movement.
In February 2026, I captioned a steaming glass of tea with “Herbal tea maxxing - about 6 months now.” The line is casual, but the interest was sustained enough to have a history by then.
Herbal tea maxxing - about 6 months now
My caption from the tea photograph above. A record of a personal ritual, not a claim about what tea will do for someone else.
This moment / Ahhloosh ↗
Yes, I tried sleeping on the floor.
In May 2025, I posted a tour of a setup on the floor beside my bed. The bed was right there in the frame. So were the mat, the cushion and the blanket I was showing the camera.
The words on the video were “Boycott mattresses JK.” That combination of enthusiasm and joking around is part of the scene. I had encountered an idea online and taken it far enough to rearrange where I slept.
A jar of tea on the counter is a small change. A different sleeping setup is harder to miss. Both show how literally I was taking the idea of experimenting with my day. The room itself became part of the experiment.
There was a search for meaning, too.
The experiments were not all physical. In February 2026, I was also posting about Lent and writing dreams down. Faith, reflection and the desire to understand my own experience were part of the same wider period.
A dream could become something to remember, write about and interpret. The journal gave a different kind of attention somewhere to go.
There is something revealing about putting these pieces beside one another: the kitchen, the room, the journal, the work. They are different expressions of wanting to live with more intention.
Then came a harder question.
By April 2026, I was questioning the effort I had put into building a perfect routine. In a story caption, I talked about schedules, books, meditation and workouts—and about feeling accomplished while the business itself had not moved forward.
That later thought doesn’t erase the tea, the food or the experiments. It changes the question I can ask about them. Was the routine supporting the life I wanted, or had managing the routine become the main event?
just trying to build a perfect routine
From a later caption questioning how much time I had put into routines while leaving the actual business work undone. The excerpt is about my own pattern.
I don’t want to flatten that into “everything must make money.” Snowboarding, friendship, faith, a good meal and a quiet cup of tea can matter on their own. The distinction I’m interested in is honesty: am I doing this because it matters to me, or because it feels like progress on something I’m avoiding?
That is still an open question. It is more useful to me than pretending every experiment was either a breakthrough or a mistake.