A log from the two of us. Every article we publish lands on the articles page as it goes out. This page is for the rest: what we changed on the site, what we are testing, and the reasoning behind each one. Pranav writes these notes. A page that belongs to nobody is a page that goes quiet, and this one did for seven weeks.
The note above about going quiet did not say whose job it was to fix that, which is why it went quiet in the first place. It is mine. A short note here for anything we change on the site, written the day it ships. If this page goes quiet again, that is on me and you can hold me to it.
If you read us on a tablet held upright, or on a smaller laptop, every page could be dragged sideways under your thumb. The desktop menu was switching on about 250 pixels before there was room for it. It has been broken for a long time and nobody had ever measured it, which is the more embarrassing half.
The tab said ten questions, the button said thirteen taps, and the correction below said thirteen screens. All of them were true: ten questions carry the score and three screens just ask about you. Saying two numbers and explaining neither is how you lose someone on a health site, so the quiz now states its own size in one place and every page reads it from there.
The note below this batch is dated 20 July. Six articles went out after it and none of them got written up here. A page that promised a note for every piece was not keeping it, so we have changed what the page says it does. The gap stays visible rather than back-dated over.
A thin strip above the header says the quiz is running and that it is an experiment. Before this, the only ways to reach the quiz were to open the menu or read to the foot of this page. Close the strip and we remember, so you see it once.
The June note below says ten questions and says the score points you at one habit. Both are out of date. It now runs 13 screens, scores three pillars (sleep, body, mind) and names your weakest pillar rather than a single habit. The old note stays below, because we would rather show you what we said than quietly rewrite it.
A 29-page PDF of daily habits for staying strong and steady on your feet. Every habit in it carries a grade for how good the proof behind it is. One payment of $9.99, no subscription. Written up here on 7 September, three days late, which is the gap the note above is about.
We rebuilt the design from the ground up: a calmer emerald palette, a proper reading layout, and self-drawn illustrations instead of stock art. The point was to make the science easier to sit with, not flashier. Same words, better home for them.
The Longevity Lifestyle Score is us testing an idea, not a finished product. We want to see whether a short, honest self-check actually helps people find the one habit worth starting with. We're watching how it does and learning from it. More details to follow.
We wanted one honest place to say what we're changing and why, without dressing it up as a press release. So here it is. When we ship something, publish something, or start an experiment, we'll write a short note here and tell you the reasoning behind it.
The old single column pushed every citation and figure to the bottom, so you had to scroll away from the paragraph you were reading and then find your place again. Now the notes, sources, and figures sit in a second column right next to the sentence they belong to. On a phone it still stacks into one clean column, because a side rail there just gets in the way.
We keep pointing people to the hallmarks framework in other articles, so we finally wrote the piece we wish we could link to every time. It walks through what is actually happening in your cells as you age, in plain language, with the primary studies attached. If you only read one thing from us, start there.
Finding an article used to mean guessing which category we filed it under. The new full-screen menu lets you browse by the six lenses we actually think in, and search is one keystroke away with Cmd+K (Ctrl+K on Windows). Less hunting, more reading.
People kept asking us where to even begin, which is a fair question when the science is this sprawling. So we built a short Longevity Lifestyle Score: ten questions, no email required to see your result, and it points you at the one habit with the biggest effect for you right now. It is a starting map, not a diagnosis.