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Some of the most popular / my personal favourite posts on this site.

Books & Reading

The secrets to reading 200 books a year

Every 1 minute a day you read = 1 book a year

How to choose books you’ll actually read

9 short books all creative people need on their shelf (originally published in The Startup)

Philosophy & living

This is how you go from self-hatred to self-acceptance (originally published in The Startup)

How to find happiness (everything I know so far)

Why hell is other people

Self-care for the self-hating

Creativity & productivity

Be harder on yourself (or someone else will)

The 5-minute journaling technique I use to banish anxiety

Planning is just escapism

Eliminate procrastination by asking two incredibly simple questions

Minimalism

Is minimalism the future? 

How to fail at minimalism (featured on Becoming Minimalist)

Smartphones are making us dumber

Misc

These are not my best years

Keep drawing lines in the sand

Why I get tattoos

70 hours in Paris (an attempt to freeze time)