A skeptical dive into the weird, sketchy, occasionally life-changing world
of self-improvement.
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Won a Year
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In my last post, dated a little over two months ago, I said I hoped that I would have some good news worth sending a newsletter about. Well, the thing that I was hoping for did happen, and now I have my good news post, and a curious aversion to posting about it. Because even though I have proof, I’m still not quite convinced that…
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Day 27: a quick one, while he’s away
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The AI article is out. https://www.webworm.co/newgods It’s horrible, but I’d appreciate you reading it anyway. Today’s chief achievement was making some little blocks to boost the lounge suite’s height by about a centimetre so the robot vacuum…
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Day 26: All we can do is do all we can.
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This evening I baked a cake for my son’s birthday celebration at his preschool tomorrow. In an attempt to be inclusive, I made it gluten, dairy, and egg-free. From the taste, this will work perfectly, because no-one…
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Day 25: boats against the current
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In last night’s D&D game there was a discussion about the things that live rent-free in your head: mainly advertising jingles. I recently bought a packet of the Warehouse’s Market Kitchen brand of puffed wheat cereal coated…
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Day 24: oops
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It was around 9 AM this morning when I realised I hadn’t sent out an email yesterday. It wasn’t laziness or tiredness or illness; I just forgot. Straight forgot. Which is odd; getting this email out is…
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Day 22: you may live in interesting times
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My nights have started getting late again. In my defence, the daughter wakes up at 11 pm sharp every night; her body clock seems infallible. (It used to be 10, but then we were hit by the…
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Day 21: aaaaarghhhhh
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I nearly made the whole body of the email just “aaaargh” but I opted for not. But man, it was tempting. I just spent the best part of the evening taking turns with My Wife trying to…
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Day 19: it just keeps happening!
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I did a couple of the hard things that my previous email assured readers, courtesy of Ms Rachel, that you can in fact do. I guess this email is proof! I am feeling more testy and scatterbrained…
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Day 18: You Can Do Hard Things
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There’s something I’ve heard that I can’t fully attribute, probably because it’s common sense, or perhaps just sense. I’ve variously heard it from friends and relatives and a therapist and social media memes, and it goes along…
