Free Ice Cream, AI Excuses, & Productivity Tricks

Welcome Back!

The newsletter 4 when you “don’t feel like it”. Every week, I find tools and tips for lazy people like you (and me).

This week’s Bum Agenda:

• 🍦 Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s (no catch, just cones)

• 📺 Severance on Apple TV — corporate weirdness + existential dread

• 🤖 Excuses to leave any party early

• ✅ Do the least and still count it as a win

👇 Scroll for the goods.

🍿 BINGE WORTHY SHOW

Severance (Apple TV, 2 Seasons)

• Summary: Severance is a show about people who have their work memories severed (literally), and it's a wild ride. Think "The Matrix" meets "Office Space," but with more existential dread and less cubicles

🍔 BIG BACK ACTIVITIES

🥤 Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day 2025

1. What: Ben & Jerry’s annual Free Cone Day, offering free ice cream cones to all customers

2. When: Tuesday, April 8, 2025, from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. local time

3. Why you care: It’s free ice cream man…

🤖 AI PROMPTS FOR EVERYDAY LIFE - SOCIAL BATTERY SAVER

Holiday season = too many parties, too little energy. Use this if you’re already checking the watch and looking for a exit.

Prompt:

Write 3 polite excuses to leave a holiday party early—each one tailored for:

1. A work event

2. A family gathering

3. A New Year’s Eve party with strangers

Keep it light, believable, and low-drama. Bonus points if they sound responsible and mildly charming.

💡 Use case:

Pop one of these in your Notes app for quick copy/paste, or use it to inspire your next well-timed Irish goodbye

💻 DIGITAL TOOLS

Accountabilify - An AI accountability coach available on Telegram to help users stay responsible and on track with their goals.

DeskRest - A macOS application that provides smart break and posture reminders to enhance productivity and well-being during work hours

Flora Fauna - Platform that provides an infinite canvas integrating leading text, image, and video models, enabling users to ideate, iterate, and collaborate on creative projects in real time.

Remove Paywall - An online tool designed to bypass paywalls, allowing users to access content that is otherwise restricted

🧰 PHYSICAL TOOLS

FryDaddy Electric Deep Fryer - Small, easy-to-clean appliance that quickly fries foods like fries and chicken with minimal oil, automatic temperature control

Hook and Ring Game - Fast-paced drinking game where players take turns swinging a ring onto a hook

Weed Puller - Yanks weeds out by the roots while you stand tall like a garden boss—no bending, no dirty hands, just stomp, pull, eject, repeat

Chicken Waterer Cups - Egg prices are high—keep your VIP egg layers hydrated with these leakproof, easy-install chicken waterer cups so they can keep cranking out the gold.

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✔️ PRODUCTIVITY TIP:

The “Minimum Viable Effort” Rule

If you can’t do it all, just do barely enough.

• Reply “got it” instead of drafting the perfect email.

• Tidy one corner instead of the whole house.

• Open the document.

That’s it. That’s the win. Future You doesn’t need perfection—just a running start

🖇️ LAZY RESOURCES

Videos:

The Productivity System I Wish I Found Sooner - Effective productivity system that helps you focus on the right things consistently

2 Hour Pomodoro Brown Noise - If you need to focus brown noise is your friend.

Article:

3 Ways to Harness the Power of Your Unfocused Mind - The unfocused mind might be a superpower.