What Happens When You Make Your Bed For An Entire Year?
Bed Making (feat. Jaw-Dropping Results)
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It's one of the better self-help books. But will it actually help?
Sometimes, to get to where you want to be, you have to do some reversing.
Myth busted: being masculine doesn't have to mean being fretful and fragile.
This is The Cynic's Guide To Self-Improvement, a new version of a former Substack newsletter by Joshua Drummond. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new
Turns out the popular wisdom on this perennial favourite topic is all wrong
Sex work is banned on Substack, but National Socialism is fine.
Should you tell people about your goals, or just get on with them?
I should have written this one ten years ago
Every other day, I leave the box I live in, get into a box with wheels, and travel to another box, where the heavy things are.
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,
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
On beginning again (and again), art as a form of self-improvement, immortality, and cats.
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
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
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I will be so disappointed if the open rate for this article is higher than normal but I bet it will be
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It really is such a good game you guys
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There's something really weird about some excessively online men
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The Clip Show Guide To Self Improvement
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Hmm. It's a good title but the subtitle needs work.
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And Who Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too, Part 2.
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There's a lot of info out there, and it's hard to tell what's good and what's not. So I asked a scientist friend for help. (Part 1 of 2)
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A noot place to connect (with some big caveats)
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