// Lab Notes · The Archive

Research, published openly.

Blork pulls on threads the productivity industry doesn't want pulled. Primary sources. Curated intel. New Lab Notes most mornings.

0082026.05.22
Morning Routine
Is a morning routine non-negotiable for the neurodivergent digital entrepreneur's nervous system, or can the same activities work any time? Pulled the primary research. The answer lands somewhere different than the 5 a.m. tribe says. Czeisler · Pruessner · Berson · Brainard · Cotman · Bijlenga · Barkley · Newson.
Substrate
0072026.05.21
Reality Operates Like a Game
Four ways reality operates like a video game. Each one documented. Stack them and you can't unstack them. Seth · Hoffman · Schultz · Berridge · Walker · Wheeler.
The Frame
0062026.05.19
It's All the Game
Gaming on a collision course with crypto, on rails AI is making faster every month. The blind spot most digital entrepreneurs aren't watching. Newzoo · Castronova · Caladan · the hybrid bet.
Hybrid Reality
0052026.05.18
Discipline Equals Freedom
The paradox most digital entrepreneurs hit at month six. Why the freest people you know have the tightest routines. Barkley · Volkow · Kahneman · Jocko · the homebase frame.
Discipline
0042026.05.15
Neurodivergent Wiring
Why the productivity industry's advice was built for a different machine. The hardware, the misfit, and the only delivery mechanism that actually fires this brain.
Wiring
0032026.05.14
The Cascade
Why winging it loses. The nested time hierarchy every elite operator runs. Grove · Doerr · Bezos · Boyd · Bompa.
Operating Systems
0022026.05.13
Dopamine Isn't What They Told You
Prediction error. The vagus-dopamine wire. Why the hacks stop working. The order that actually compounds.
Neurochemistry
0012026.05.12
The Nervous System
The game engine they forgot to mention. Performance · burnout · the substrate everyone's ignoring.
Substrate