Are your fitness trackers actually helping you...or quietly making things worse?

In this mini episode, Kathy takes a deep dive into the world of wearable trackers: steps, sleep scores, HRV, and the growing body of research that suggests obsessively monitoring all of it might be doing more harm than good.

From the surprising (and very made-up) origins of the 10,000 steps target, to the genuinely wild science around orthosomnia - where your sleep tracker gives you worse sleep - this minipod will make you think twice before checking your wrist first thing in the morning.

In a slightly different episode Kathy sits down with ops VA Helen Taylor and tech specialist Chris Davies for a proper conversation about AI.Not a how-to, but an honest look at how small business owners and solopreneurs are actually using it, where it falls flat, and what separates the people getting real value from the ones walking away disappointed.

From writing and admin to thinking partnerships and customer-facing tools, they cover the practical, the less obvious, and the genuinely tricky questions about what AI means for the future of knowledge work.

If you've ever pulled the lever once, got a mediocre answer, and closed the tab then take a listen and maybe you'll pull the lever a few more times in future.Connect with Chris here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-davies-819113186/Read Ruben Hassid's newsletter on AI: https://ruben.substack.com/Useful links:https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10032626-prompt-engineering-best-practices-for-chatgpthttps://www.anthropic.com/research/labor-market-impacts

In this minipod Kathy takes a brief detour from planners and systems to explore something every productivity framework quietly depends on: happiness.

Drawing on Yale psychologist Laurie Santos's wildly popular Science of Wellbeing course, this episode unpacks why the things we chase most fiercely, promotion, money, status, rarely deliver the lasting happiness we expect. Santos calls it the satisfaction treadmill, and once you see it, you can't unsee it.

Kathy shares the three research-backed habits that actually move the needle, and why the uncomfortable truth is that we already know what makes us happy. We're just very busy not choosing it.