Notes on
the night

Willpower probably isn't the mechanism, and dopamine probably isn't either. A seventy-year-old finding explains the scroll that won't end better than either popular theory does.

Your phone is face-down and you're still braced for it to buzz. A named psychological state explains why — and the fix isn't a policy, it's a habit almost nobody builds.

The size of the task isn't what decides whether it follows you to bed. A real fix exists, and it isn't "finish it."

Not random, and not usually a bad sign. The honest, unremarkable reasons your body keeps opening its eyes at the same hour — and what actually helps.