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• 2025

  April

  • Are You Buying the Product – or the Praise?
  • Dwight Schrute Is My Life Coach

  February

  • Heroism in the Age of Dishwashers
  • The Wistfulness of Your 30s
  • You Don't Need More Content – You Need Better Attention
  • Dr Pepper

• 2024

  October

  • On Writing: Short Enough to Finish, Long Enough to Matter
  • ADHD and the Struggle With Internal Expectations

  September

  • ADHD and the Burden of Possessions

  July

  • The Ron Swanson Approach: Birthdays for Introverts

  May

  • Big projects, small favours: Boost your work reputation by nailing the extremes
  • The 19th Century's Lottery for Life

  April

  • 4000 Weeks: Embracing Limits for a Fuller Life

• 2022

  July

  • A Stopped Watch
  • Lilacs and War

  March

  • Legs Look Weird
  • Low Birth Rates and High War Deaths
  • Economic Sanctions Cause Discomfort in a Very Comfortable Modern World
  • “Humanity is just not what I think it is.”

  February

  • Caffeine, late nights and book introductions
  • Attempting yoga for the first time

• 2021

  February

  • The Price of Whisky

  January

  • Dressing Gowns Are Stupid
  • Brutalism