About Idle & Awake

Idle & Awake is a small, independent team that makes calm, useful things for the web: essays you can trust, plain answers to everyday questions, and free tools that work in your browser. Everything is free to read and use, with no sign-ups and no paywalls.

What we make

• Essays — short, evidence-based essays about success, motivation, money, wealth, mindset and habits. Each one takes a single idea, tests it against a real, documented case or study, explains where it falls short in a section called The other side, and ends with one small thing to try today.
• Blog — answers to questions people actually ask about business, tech, science, travel, food, history and work, with dated sources and numbers checked against them.
• Tools — calculators, converters and file tools. They run in your browser, so the numbers you type and the files you open stay on your device. Each tool explains its formula and is tested against worked examples.
• Time — world clocks, time-zone and meeting planners, sunrise and sunset times and the next daylight-saving change, calculated from the standard IANA time-zone database.
• Tiger — our YouTube channel: absurd what-if questions, answered by one sleepy tiger who digs up the facts and runs the numbers on screen. Every episode has a page with the short answer, the numbers and the sources.

How we work

Every essay and answer must cite at least two sources, use only quotes we can trace to where they were said or written, and pass checks for sources, banned claims and duplication before it is published. Drafts that fail are rewritten or dropped, and when we find a mistake we correct it openly. Read the full rules in our editorial policy.

We don’t give financial, legal or medical advice, we don’t promise results, and we don’t write about politics, religion or the private lives of real people.

Who runs it

The sites are run by the Idle & Awake team. We keep the team’s personal details off the sites on purpose — what we publish should stand on its sources, not on who we are. You can always reach us at pp.idleawake@gmail.com.

How the sites are funded

Idle & Awake is supported by display advertising from Google AdSense, by Amazon affiliate links where a book or product is directly relevant, and by readers who choose to support us on Buy Me a Coffee or Ko-fi. Advertisers and supporters never see posts before publication and have no say in what we write. Affiliate links never change a recommendation.

Get in touch

Found a mistake, a better source, or a tool that gave you a wrong result? Email pp.idleawake@gmail.com or see the contact page. We read everything and correct errors openly.