The Loser's Guides
Parody how-to guides written in plain language for people who find the self-help industry exhausting. Each guide takes a popular productivity, career, or wellness concept and examines it honestly, which is to say: mockingly.
- How to Fail Upward: A Corporate Survival GuideBecause the people at the top got there somehow, and it wasn't always competence.
- The 4-Hour Work Weak: Doing Less and Feeling Fine About ItA guide to radical underperformance, without the guilt.
- Atomic Habits You'll Abandon by FebruaryBuilding tiny habits that will crumble under the slightest pressure.
- The Art of the Graceful QuitKnowing when to walk away is a skill they don't teach in hustle culture.
- How to Network When You Hate PeopleSocial connections for the socially reluctant.
- Goal Setting for People Who Won't Follow ThroughSMART goals for people who aren't.
- Manifesting: Why the Universe Left You on ReadYou asked the cosmos for abundance. The cosmos didn't reply.
- Your Morning Routine Is Not a PersonalityStop telling people about your 5 AM cold plunge.
- How to Meditate While DoomscrollingMindfulness for the chronically distracted.
- The Power of Negative ThinkingOptimism is overrated. Pessimism is underpriced.
- Productivity Hacks for the Fundamentally UnproductiveTips that assume you have zero willpower. Because you do.
- How to Write a To-Do List You'll Never CompleteThe art of organized procrastination.
- Finding Your Passion (It's Probably Napping)What to do when 'follow your passion' leads to the couch.
- Side Hustles That Will Earn You Almost NothingTurning your free time into a different kind of free time.
- How to Journal When You Have Nothing Interesting to SayDear diary: same thing as yesterday.
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a PowerPointCorporate presentations and the death of meaning.
- Deep Work vs. Deep Couch: A Comparative StudyCal Newport didn't account for how comfortable your sofa is.
- Leadership Lessons from People Who Got FiredWhat getting sacked teaches you about being in charge.
- Time Management for People Who Are Always LateYou'll read this later. You'll read everything later.
- How to Read 52 Books a Year (You Won't)The reading challenge you'll abandon by March.