Henenlotter rules, and more people should say it.

(I knew it was going to be bad, y'all. But like... yikes.)

Bloober didn't successfully thread the most contentious needle in recent remake history for you to capitalize on it with this dreck. Oof.

"No, no, don't you see? He was RIGHT to k*** her, because in doing so he set her free. The game never said anything about men's socially ingrained unwillingness to caregive or put up with anything less than a 100% unobtrusive life partner"

This is maybe the most egregious misunderstanding of a piece of media meant to depict the complexities of living in masculinity since Fight Club, though I doubt it will be nearly as impactful

(Cal Newport's later work on Slow Productivity IS actually crazy helpful and not at all enabling, so I do guess there's hope for me yet)

"Cal Newport wouldn't think my planner system is weird," I whisper to myself as I start my 3rd Kanban board of the week.

On a certain level, I have to assume a lot of this is just to validate and self-soothe all us neurotic time-management obsessives, not to actually educate or provide help.

Oh, time-blocking is a good method for building in Deep Work? I should only check my email once a day? I need to set SMART goals and remember my why?

You don't say.

Just feels like books about how to build more meaningful activity into your life should probably not shame you for needing the book? But the self-help industry would kill itself if it didn't actually just breed more self-hate for eternal sales revenue so...

Snakes? In MY oil? More common than you think.