
An honest, skeptical, wholehearted dive into the weird, sketchy, cringey, occasionally inspirational and life-changing world of self-improvement. Pretty much what it says in the title.
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Gidday Cynics,
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There’s a good chance you’ve seen the following letter a lot lately: I’ve been meaning to send it out for a while now. I’m sending it to recipients of both The Bad Newsletter and here on the Cynic’s Guide, because — to say shortly what I’ve...
There’s this skit at the opening of the Tenacious D song “Kielbasa” that starts with KG saying “Dude, we gotta fucken write something,” and because I got into the D at an impressionable age and the lyrics are burned into my hippocampus with...
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