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Victorian diary-writers kicked off our age of self-optimisation | Aeon Essays

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:01:50 +0000

Nineteenth-century diaries show a growing middle class engaged in a constant quest for self-mastery and productivity. With the invention of printed commercial diaries came a new way of looking at life and new organisational possibilities. The future could be mapped out, goal-oriented, solution-focused. The Victorians were great innovators, but progress was Janus-faced. For every leap forward, a renewed pressure to go further, and faster, to do better, be better. The age of progress was also an age of anxiety.

Tags: #history #journaling #productivity #selfhelp #victorian #writing

Practical betterments

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:00:23 +0000

A collection of one-off actions that improve your life continuously — however marginally.

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Quantified Awesome: Development-driven behaviour and integrated tests for life | sacha chua :: living an awesome life

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 02:36:17 +0000

I am pleasantly boggled that this is possible, and will probably write all sorts of odd tests now. Because Cucumber can fill in web forms, click on stuff, and so on, I might even be able to use it to check information on other sites. (When I check my mail, then all the messages in my inbox should be less than a week old?)

Tags: #lifehacks #quantified #selfhelp #testing

The (Other) Secret: Scientific American

Wed, 23 May 2007 04:32:21 +0000

""You've got enough power in your body to illuminate a whole city for nearly a week." Sure, if you convert your body's hydrogen into energy through nuclear fission."

Tags: #funny #oprah #selfhelp #thesecret