My name is Adriano Ferrari, a Physics Ph.D. student, and the founder of HabitShaper.com.
In this blog, you'll find research on shaping habits, product updates, and random articles on self-improvement.
Wow, with all this novel-writing, I kind of skimped out on the blog updates! Anyway, I’m still here and still going strong. The targets I’ve had have helped me to ease into this nicely. I will say that there are several tweaks and improvements I will be making to the ‘project’-type algorithms as a result [...]
I have just emerged from a battle with my inner critic. Victorious! I usually would slowly write a paragraph, read over what I just wrote. Or read everything from page one. Then I would sit until I thought of how to phrase the next bit. But there was finally a distinct moment when I realized [...]
As vowed, I have begun my novel today. I had absolutely no plan until the day before. But then, in a flash of inspiration, I came up with my plot. It starts out shamelessly autobiographical (basically, it’s me and my current situation almost verbatim), but will slowly build up to some crazy science fiction occurrences. [...]
For a while now, HabitShaper has had a “Write a Novel” preset. Yet I’ve never written one myself! Time to put my money where my mouth is. I hereby declare that I will write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. If this sounds crazy, then you’ve never heard of this lovely and [...]
The title says it all: For now, it’s just a bare-bones transpose of the old site. But once all the ‘teething issues’ are sorted, I’ll be adding a lot of new content. Enjoy!
Just a quick note: I’m working hard on a much-needed website upgrade. My main goal with this new site is to add a lot more content. Such as guides for using HS for particular goals. Estimated time to launch: 3 days.
