How we write, source, and update.
The trust contract between this site and the people who read it — including how we write, source, update, and disclose AI assistance.
Habit Cycles is a small editorial site about a single subject: building habits with edges and reviews. Everything published here is written or commissioned with care, sourced where the claim isn't obvious, and updated when something we wrote no longer matches what we believe.
Who writes
Habit Cycles is written by Jamie Murphy. He has tracked his own habits for years, watched the same pattern surface across cycle after cycle of building and breaking, and developed the method around what was already working in his own practice. Friends and family used it early on and told him where it broke; the method has been refined run after run since.
The full first-person story of how Habit Cycles started is on the about page.
How we use AI
Jamie writes the content with the assistance of AI, but only from an editorial point of view. Ideas, concepts, framing, and stories all come from him, not from a model. He has careful processes and tooling in place to prevent hallucinations from making it into published work, including source verification, factual cross-checks, and a final read-through against the original idea.
AI is treated as an editor, not an author. Where it has shaped a piece, the work has been through Jamie's own filter and his own voice.
How we research
The method isn't theory Jamie has sat with on his own; it's been lived by other people too. Most of what's documented here came out of those conversations.
Where a claim is non-obvious, we cite the source. Where a claim originates with another writer (BJ Fogg, James Clear, Wendy Wood, Phillippa Lally), we name them. We link out to primary research and to other writers' work generously. Better that a reader follows a link to the original than that we paraphrase someone else's idea without credit.
How often we update
Evergreen pieces, like the method pages and any blog post intended to remain current, are reviewed at least annually and updated where the content has aged. Date-stamped news or commentary is left as written, with corrections appended.
Every long-form piece on this site shows its publication date and, when applicable, a last-updated date. Both are also embedded in the page's structured data so search and AI engines see the freshness signal correctly.
Corrections
Friends and family told Jamie where the method broke when they first used it. That feedback shaped what's published here, and it still does. If you spot something wrong, write to him directly. Contact details are on the about page.
Factual corrections are made promptly and noted at the end of the article with a brief explanation and the date of the correction. Substantive corrections are also recorded in our public changelog.
Conflict-of-interest disclosure
Jamie also runs StillMind, a separate product (a meditation journal app). It is sometimes referenced on this site where the connection is editorially relevant. We don't run sponsored content on Habit Cycles, and we don't accept payment to feature any tool, book, or method.
When we recommend a third-party tool or book, we say so plainly and explain why. Where any affiliate relationship exists, it is disclosed at the point of recommendation.
Reader contact
Questions, corrections, and feedback are welcome. The fastest route is replying to The Wave Newsletter, or finding Jamie on LinkedIn.
Last updated: 27 April 2026.