“Depending on your perspective, Immanuel Kant was either the most boring person on the planet or a productivity hacker’s wet dream,” best-selling author Mark Manson writes in today’s nugget. Waking up at precisely 5:00 AM every day, and following a daily routine so mechanical as to allow his neighbors to tune their clocks accordingly, he was “efficiency personified.”

But Manson is not looking for productivity hacks. Instead, he is chiefly interested in Kant’s “principle of humanity”, which, he argues, has profound implications in terms of designing your life around self-improvement. Read on to learn more!