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The Case for Keeping a JournalThe journal has suffered somewhat from its associations. On one side, the leather-bound, fountain-penned version favoured by a certain kind of aspirational stationery enthusiast — beautiful as an object, rarely actually written in. On the...

How to Build a Habit That Actually SticksThe standard advice about building habits tends to congregate around motivation: find your why, visualise your future self, want it badly enough. This advice is not completely wrong, but it overestimates the role of motivation...

The Underrated Art of Doing NothingProductivity culture has waged a long and largely successful campaign against idleness. The result is a widespread inability to be unoccupied without feeling guilty about it. a condition so normalised that people describe full...