Interestingly, Brienne just posted a rather similar story, though for her the environment's effect on her behavior is much more immediately obvious than in Ferrett's case.
He's posting this right after he got a new kindle. Of course if you buy a fancy new device you are going to use it more at first. Let's see if, a year later, he continues reading in bed, or goes back to his phone.
I know that sounds overly cynical, but I have made minor changes to my life that made big improvements. And I wanted to post about them going "hey guys this one weird trick totally changed my life!" And then a week later I was back to my old habits. The enthusiasm around the new idea turned out to be more important than the change itself.
By Ferrett Steinmetz
Ferrett isn't officially a Rationality Blogger, but he posts things that seem relevant fairly often. This one is in the spirit of "Beware Trivial Inconveniences". It's the story of how he realized that a small change in his environment led to a big change in his behavior...