I kept hearing about laws of power at work, in podcasts, and in one very long group chat argument, so I finally sat down and read the main book cover to cover. Then I compared the standard paperback with the…

I put off reading Viktor Frankl for years because I assumed a book written out of the Holocaust would be too heavy to carry around in daily life. When I finally worked through mans search for meaning this spring, slowly,…

I first read Dale Carnegie's classic in my twenties and mostly skimmed it for tricks, which is the wrong way to read it. This year I worked through how to win friends influence people again, slowly, one principle at a…

Every couch in our house had the same problem: flat, sad throw pillows that came free with the furniture and looked it. I spent three weeks testing the utopia bedding throw pillows lineup, which is really about inserts, the 18×18…

We replaced our queen mattress last spring, and I was determined not to let coffee, a leaking water bottle, or the dog's muddy paws age it early. Over a month I tested the utopia bedding queen size mattress protector lineup…

I drink far more water when the bottle is easy to sip from without unscrewing anything, which is why the owala freesip stainless steel water bottle format caught my eye. For three weeks I rotated the 24 oz versions in…

My dentist has been telling me for years that my manual brushing is too hard and too fast, so I finally committed to an electric brush for a full month. I worked through the oral-b pro rechargeable electric toothbrush lineup…

A plain fleece hoodie is the most worn item in my closet from October through April, so I notice quickly when one pills, sags, or loses its shape. Over three weeks I rotated the hanes mens hoodie lineup in white,…

Coin batteries are the kind of thing you only think about when a key fob, a scale, or a garage remote dies at the worst moment. I spent two weeks rotating energizer batteries 3v lithium coin batteries through the devices…

I break or scratch a phone screen about once a year, so tempered glass protectors are a standing item in my kitchen drawer. Over the past month I worked through the ailun screen protector lineup on the phones in our…