A skeptical dive into the weird, sketchy, occasionally life-changing world
of self-improvement.
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Day 28: I am getting an early night and you should too
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Something I saw some time ago: “Depleted brains seek distraction.” I wish I could attribute it, but I was tired, and scrolling, and now I’ve forgotten without any possibility of recall who said it. But it certainly seems abundantly true; the more tired I am the more likely I am to seek distraction, whether it’s
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Interlude
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A quick one, this week, because, well… Our cat Bianca died a few days ago. It was sudden. We’d hoped to have a couple more weeks, but she became unable to eat, and keeping her longer wouldn’t…
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A NU START
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When you’ve been painting for a stretch of time, something odd can happen. Lift your attention from the canvas, and the world appears as if made of paint, impossibly bright and detailed. Nip out to get some…
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Continue
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The last two weeks have been hard. When I try to write it up, as I have many times now, I’m hit with a wave of weariness. Inside and out, everything seems drained of colour and vitality.…
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I quit
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Gidday Cynics, Quitting is not my strong suit. It’s hard to think of something I’m worse at: apart from simultaneously quitting smoking, coffee and religion1 nearly twenty years ago, I don’t like to give up on things.…
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I found the Überman
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Gidday Cynics, Remember “life-hacks?” Today, life-hacking is a cutesy phrase that means anything from “make your bed after showering” to “rip the the transformer out of your microwave and use it to burn patterns in wood and/or…
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40
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I turned 40 a couple of weeks ago and thought it’d be a good opportunity to reflect, piecemeal, on where I find myself in life, the universe, and this whole self-improvement thing. Psuedo The pseudoephedrine has been…