Edison Experiments

During its lifetime, Edison users came up with a tremendous variety of experiments to try, and gave each other encouragement and support. I've listed some of the titles below. You can find other experiment ideas at blog posts tagged 'experiment-idea'.

  • "easy" fat loss
  • 59 seconds
  • 99 Experiments Book Cover
  • A one week diary
  • Abundance Log
  • Amazon Widgets on BringIt
  • Apple Cider Vinegar for Weight loss
  • Apply Autofocus time-management to my personal life
  • Apply Getting to Yes to a property boundary problem
  • Apprenticeships in Software Development
  • Ascending daily workout
  • Attempt to switch back from Mac to Linux
  • Attempting the "Geek to Freak" muscle-building technique
  • Avoid All Sugar and Carbs at Thanksiving
  • Avoid owning a car
  • Back to Basics - Get rid of stuff
  • Be a professional writer for two weeks
  • Be with sick mom in critical care
  • Become a git guru
  • Behavior modification and metaawareness to sustainably fulfill academic responsibilities
  • Being infinite. Transcending. Making God a part of everything I do
  • Better positivity promoter
  • Bike Riding
  • Blind date in 1 hour
  • Blue Canary Night Light
  • Break down past milestones to help with future goals/projects
  • Breakfast improvement
  • Brushing teeth with left hand
  • Build Focus Habit with Marathon Training Schedule
  • Caller ID Appliance
  • Calories in Vs calories out theory
  • Can an iPad help your kids avoid glasses
  • Challenge my boss's ideas
  • Change Thyroid Medicine to a Compound
  • Change the Conversation
  • Coconut Oil for Weight Loss
  • Cold showers
  • Completing todo lists before leaving for home
  • Components of In-Class Attention
  • Conditioning Only instead of Shampooing
  • Counteracting the detrimental effects of sitting
  • Cramming- the new approach
  • Create First Digital Report
  • Create a daily to-do/habit/journal planner
  • Creative writing every day
  • Daily Meditation
  • Daily writing
  • Dance as a workout
  • Dating 101
  • Deep Breathing Every Day
  • Dental care with Xylitol
  • Develop Online Yoga Library
  • Develop a new life plan
  • Discover if external factors influence hot flashes
  • Do strenuous exercise (mountain biking) for 1+ hours every day for three weeks
  • Does Dehydration Contribute to Grumpy Mornings
  • Does a bland diet help you lose weight
  • Doing continous bookkeeping
  • Don't lose the cell phone!
  • Dress better in public
  • Drink more water @ office
  • Dry clothes without a "clothes dryer"
  • Effect of Contact Lens Age on Comfort
  • Effect of Diet on Mood
  • Effect of Keeping Food Log on Nutritional Behavior
  • Effect of rest days vs cross-training on subsequent running pace
  • Effects of drinking milk on night sweats
  • Elbow health. The reading hypothesis
  • Elimination Experiment
  • Extreme Batching - Intentionally Creating a Weekly "Vacation Tax"
  • Firmly anchor my visions in daily life
  • Fly in airplane
  • Gallon Of Milk A Day
  • Get A Job
  • Get a drivers licence
  • Get to bed earlier
  • Getting Unstuck
  • Getting a full night's rest
  • Getting rid of shin splints
  • Give myself a break for a week
  • Go on a New Media Diet
  • Grow a cocoa plant in Melbourne, Australia
  • Hair Flip
  • Handover Control of Household Budget to Spouse
  • Have magnet implanted in finger
  • How will I know if this day is a success?
  • IL-2 Sturmovik Flight log
  • Implementing the GTD System and Its Effect on Mood
  • Improve "Black Ops" video game skills through focused practice
  • Improve Hair Growth and Strength with Biotin and Silica
  • Improve Keyword Quality on My Blog Site
  • Improve Sleep Hygeine
  • Improve reading speed using Tim Ferris' techniques
  • Increase Iron and Ferritin
  • Increase compliance with dieting program with one (maybe) simple behavioural change
  • Increase fruit and fiber in diet
  • Install a new bedtime sleep routine
  • Intended Decisions
  • Intermittent Fasting
  • Invest in an individual stock
  • Invest in partnership for workshops and ebook
  • Is my Kitty the New Pavlov
  • Keeping Track of the Keys
  • Kontera Context Ads Comparison on Two Sites
  • Lead a Meetings Workshop
  • Learning (remembering) with Mnemosyne
  • Learning a new language
  • Learning how to do a body roll gracefully
  • Legumes and Body Comp
  • Lessons Learned
  • Life Coaching With a Day Planner
  • Lifestyle Intervention
  • Listen to Manager Tools Podcast each working day
  • Live a happy marriage
  • Lose 20 Pounds In One Month
  • Lose Weight
  • Love's Daily Planning
  • Lower my LDL cholesterol
  • Lucid Reading Recall
  • Mail Call--Junk Mail diaster
  • Make Mum Happy
  • Make my office paperless
  • Make new friends
  • Making Memories
  • Marketing for Digital Report
  • Marrying habits, goals and tasks
  • Meditating every day
  • Meditation as a replacement for sleep
  • Meeting Guys
  • Memory Loss
  • Mix work and fun to increase total amount of work
  • Mood
  • Morning Water Drinking
  • Move closer to work.
  • Muscle Modification: Bodybuilder to Surfer Body
  • New Exercise Trial
  • No Caffeine
  • No Laptop at Home
  • No RSS for a week
  • No grains
  • Novel Doctor
  • Observe the Ego
  • One hundred push ups
  • One week with focus on kindness and giving
  • Only do things I have planned
  • Optimize House Cleaning
  • Organized Home Desk
  • Over pay on Mortgage Each Month
  • Overeating reset
  • Paint 1/2 of our house
  • Paleo Diet
  • Percentile feedback test
  • Plant Garlic for 2010-2011 Season
  • Plant my first garden
  • Positive Thinking
  • Posture/Stance/Use of Space
  • Publish slideshow of food eaten to website
  • Put a NASA sticker on the back of my laptop's screen
  • Put exercicing back on track
  • Put together a local open-enrollment workshop on productivity
  • Re-establishing pre-internet levels of concentration and focus.
  • Re-starting to run in morning
  • Reach more out to others
  • Record personal informatics with your.flowingdata
  • Remove the words "Not", "No", "Won't" and "Don't" from my conversation
  • Reserve Fridays for Biz Reading / Great Thoughts time
  • Reverse Teasing 1 Week
  • Rewarding Retirement
  • Road Bike as Transportation
  • Roll dice to decide next task
  • Run / Walk 5 Miles each week
  • Run and Meditate First Thing
  • Run until I reach targeted weight
  • See my Master's thesis as an experiment
  • Segmented Sleep
  • Set my Major Goals
  • Sitting on an exercise ball for work
  • Sleep & Light
  • Sleep Hygiene
  • Sleep Quality Improvement
  • Sleep for 7.30 min
  • Sleep influences
  • Slim Bottoms ONLY
  • Slow Carb Diet
  • Soap-free showers
  • Solo dad for two weeks
  • Spending Habits
  • Standing Desk
  • Starting the day early
  • Stop Twittering
  • Stop eating ice cream to gauge impact on tooth sensivity
  • Street Karaoke
  • Strength Training
  • Study Chinese characters and see how many I remember the day after
  • Super Focus + Pomodoro
  • Supplements
  • Swap sleep and work times
  • Taking more initiative socially - does it come back around?
  • Talking with strangers
  • Teach Basic Mental Arithmetic to Adults
  • Terms and sucess rate to book a meeting
  • Test Amazon Widgets
  • Test out glues for home repair
  • The 96 Minute Rule
  • The Effect of Breathing Exercise on Mindfulness
  • The Iodine Experiment
  • The No Soap / Shampoo One
  • The Ritual Experiment
  • The Thrill of Crossing Off a Check List
  • The effect of water and apple consumption on weight loss, controlling for cycling
  • The handstand master
  • The results of Lugols solution
  • To know how the next day will go before I go to bed.
  • Track Body Stats for Thyroid Management
  • Track my computer usage and see if it makes me more focused
  • Tracking my daughter's food and mood
  • Treat Clients Like My Best Friends
  • Try DHEA
  • Try Evening Primrose Oil for Omega-6 to improve Dry Hair
  • Try Firefox LeechBlock to stop email checking in the mornings
  • Try Freewriting
  • Try Isolator on the Mac
  • Try Matt's Daily Plan for Task Management
  • Try Not Being Critical For One Week at Work
  • Try Writing at Raos' Once a Week
  • Try a new batch of couverture chocolate for drinking
  • Try cooking blackened salmon
  • Try having a VA monitor and filter my email
  • Try melatonin to see impact on sleep
  • Try naturethroid
  • Try the "It isn't cancer" mind hack
  • Try two week stretching routine for lower back pain
  • Trying Gist
  • Turning off the fire hose
  • Tweeting less
  • Two weeks of full-time no-parenting work!
  • Use Dance Dance Revolution for Exercise
  • Use Elance for a Commercial Programming Project
  • Use Post-it note techniques to organize book ideas
  • Use a hair towel instead of a regular towel
  • Use mind mapping sofware
  • Using Positive Affirmations to Improve My Attitude
  • Vegan Eatin'
  • Vitamin D3 to Prevent Flu and Colds
  • Voice and Conversation
  • Walk from Munich to Nuremberg in 6 Days
  • Washing dishes with rubber gloves
  • Watching films
  • Weekly Planning Group
  • Weight Loss
  • What I spend
  • What are you searching for?
  • What's the Best Way to Prepare for an Interview?
  • When to take One a Day Vitamin? In the morning?
  • Will my homies start playing Akoha?
  • Work at night
  • Work, Relationship, Fun Balance
  • Working at Night/Summer Schedule
  • Working out
  • Write for one hour first thing in the morning
  • Write weekly
  • Writing
  • Yerba Mate vs. Coffee
  • ZTD, Tracy & Evernote
  • adopt a new oral care regime
  • apply for $1K from awesomefoundation.org
  • ask client for referral
  • bottle good feelings
  • caffeine effect on b/p
  • create a conference poster in two days
  • create virtual coffee shop for writing
  • eliminate chipmunks from house foundation and crawlspace
  • figure out my prime time during the day
  • find a wax that's fun to play with my 10 year old daughter
  • free software giveaway
  • get gum surgery using Alloderm
  • give nine year old daughter unlimited TV time for 1/2 day
  • gum surgery part 2/2
  • improve rc helicopter orientation problem
  • improve sleep hygiene
  • joke of the day
  • keep a simple food log for the next few weeks
  • keep feet warm while mountain biking in winter
  • monitor and reset health during vacation
  • organize a local men's nonfiction book club
  • overcoming negative thoughts
  • plant raspberry bushes
  • play with med dosage
  • preventing ice during wintry mix of freezing rain/snow [micro]
  • reduce animal fat to see if lowers 'bad' cholesterol
  • reduce tooth sensitivity
  • reserve mornings for writing
  • restart "You click, it sticks" email rule
  • run forest, run
  • sitting on an exercise ball
  • slow carb diet
  • spanish
  • stop drinking chocolate for a month
  • take 1000 mg EPA fish oil/day for mood stabilization
  • try Bondo for external wood house repairs
  • try EverNote on Mac and iPhone for notes
  • try The MotivAider to help reduce butt tension
  • try abreva for cold sores
  • try daily Vitamin C + Bioflavinoids dose for afternoon mood crash
  • try one-day contact lenses
  • turn off Gmail's inbox unread count
  • use blue-filtering glasses for cross-country flight
  • will an AdWords campaign get any consulting?
  • write shorter, simpler, and more frequent blog posts