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Gidday Cynics, This newsletter has been a long time coming. This is strange, because it’s one of the very few areas in self-improvement where I already understand the topic, I’m reasonably proficient at it, and I even know a bit about how to teach it. What’s more,
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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 have been right. She arched and smooched and purred in the
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On beginning again (and again), art as a form of self-improvement, immortality, and cats.
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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. It’s hard to do anything but sit and scroll, even though
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The one thing I should have done ages ago
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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 instantly stop your heart.” But this term has its origins in the
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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 left in Australia lest I be convicted as a drug dealer and
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Take two and call me in the morning
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For a lot of people, “get in the sea,” is sound life advice
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It turns out you can just be whelmed
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Grab a brush and put on a little make-up: this is the Cynic's Guide to morning routines
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The Cynic's Guide to Self-Improvement is increasing prices to more effectively bring you more of whatever this is