How do we live curiously in a world obsessed with results?

Anne-Laure Le Cunff’s Tiny Experiments is a quiet rebellion against the pressure to chase outcomes. Instead of rigid goals, it invites us to explore life through tiny, curiosity-led experiments.

At the core of this approach is the idea of a pact—a simple, personal experiment framed like this:

“I will [action] for [duration].”

A pact shifts the focus from success to consistency. You’re not committing to results, instead you’re committing to showing up. That makes starting less intimidating and the process more forgiving. A pact isn’t a productivity hack. It’s built on four grounded principles that make it sustainable and flexible:

• Purposeful
  The action should feel meaningful—something you genuinely want to explore or learn from.
• Actionable
  It should fit your life as it is. You don’t need more time or energy—you just need a sliver of both.
• Continuous
  Small, repeated actions matter more than intense one-offs. Think like a scientist gathering data.
• Trackable
  Keep it binary: did you do it—yes or no? That’s it. This echoes the Daily Questions from Triggers 📕.

Instead of carrying the emotional weight of big resolutions, a pact becomes a lightweight commitment, something you can return to, powered by your own curiosity.

✏️ A Practical Example

She shares a challenge she gave herself: write and publish 100 articles in 100 workdays. Not for fame or followers, but to learn through consistent practice.

Inspired by this, your own pact might be:

“I will have one conversation about [a topic I love] with someone new every day for a week.”

It’s not about solving a problem. It’s about testing a possibility—turning a vague question like “What energizes me?” into something real you can act on.

🧠 Exploration as Unlearning

Beneath the surface, Tiny Experiments is about more than trying new things—it’s about unlearning inherited scripts.

Many of us live by assumptions we never chose: what success should look like, how long things should take, what counts as progress.

Tiny experiments let you challenge those scripts gently. Every pact becomes a way of asking:

What if I did it differently—just for a while?

That opens doors to unexpected paths. Instead of defining yourself by fixed outcomes, you let your identity evolve—one tiny step at a time.

🎈 Why It Matters

Tiny experiments don’t reject goals—they reframe how we relate to effort. They take off the pressure to “get it right,” making it easier to begin, to keep going, and to learn along the way.

Here are the big ideas from Tiny Experiments:

• Start small, stay curious: Let interest—not outcomes—drive your next step. Tiny experiments help you keep moving, without the fear of failure.
• Use pacts to build momentum: Frame your experiments as: “I will [action] for [duration].” Keep them purposeful, actionable, continuous, and trackable.
• Question your defaults: Notice the rules you’ve been following without realizing. You don’t have to unlearn everything but you can test a different way.
• Focus on depth, not just output: Productivity isn’t about doing more—it’s about doing things that matter, with presence and care.
• Let curiosity lead: It’s one of your most sustainable sources of energy. When you follow it, learning happens naturally.
• Treat uncertainty as your playground: Instead of fearing the unknown, explore it. Tiny experiments give you a safe way to take risks.
• Make your impact now: You don’t have to wait to leave a legacy. Start by doing something meaningful today.

Tiny Experiments invites us to see growth not as a straight line, but as a garden: full of unexpected blooms, wild turns, and discoveries that only happen when you’re paying attention.

Anne talks about interstitial journaling as a tool, but she calls them Field Notes.

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