I’ve always never been able to decide which is Britain’s most beautiful bit: North Devon or the Yorkshire Dales. But I’ve just spent the last three days in the Scottish Borders and now I have an answer. God almighty, they’re beautiful. Also, I bought some cows there.
A reminder from Atomic Habits by James Clear:
“The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game. True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It’s not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement. Ultimately, it is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress.”
If you’re an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don’t make everything a matter of life and deaťh.
This is free advice from an expensive psychologist.
Major cheat code for life: Assume good things are still ahead. You are not behind. You are not too late. You are not disqualified by your past. One new season can change the entire story. Keep showing up with belief. The best chapters are often written after the hardest ones.
Here's David Cameron in 2016 explaining that if we leave the EU we'll be economically worse off and so have less money for public services
Here we are in 2026, worse off, and with less money for public services
Flirting with life is a skill. the guy who whistles walking down the street, compliments the cashier, makes the whole room laugh, treats every stranger like someone worth knowing — that guy never struggles. warmth is the most underrated form of power there is.
Jordan Peterson’s method for remembering everything you read:
Stop highlighting. Stop taking notes while reading.
Read a section → close the book → write down what you remember in your own words. Reformulate it. Connect it. Criticize it.
That’s how information actually becomes part of you.
What’s your take, do you learn and retain more by actively recalling and rewriting, or by highlighting and passive note-taking?
I unfortunately made the mistake of following this and it is without a doubt the most upsetting thing I’ve ever heard and seen.
It’s shaken me badly.
The payback for these animals should be of absolutely biblical harm and torture for the rest of their existence.
Social media trends have turned the world’s most beautiful places into endless bathroom lines at a concert, where everyone waits for hours just to take the same photo to show to people who couldn’t care less 🌎📸
Nothing captures the shallow decay of our time better than this