The world's least qualified life coach. (allegedly)
THE MAGAZINE · ISSUE 44 · OCTOBER 2026
Long-form disappointment about life, work, money, love and technology.
Technology / Internet CultureFILE No. 5762-K
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MAKE THIS WORSEEveryone's recreating 2016: the dog filter, the Mannequin Challenge, the bottle flip. I tried a full weekend. My body has instructed a solicitor.
MAKE THIS WORSE →A local man has spent three weeks secretly answering prompts as an 'AI', for less than the AI costs. He wrote a sonnet about a fridge.…
MAKE THIS WORSE →Most people just want a human. The chatbot was trained on the humans it replaced. The nine stages of typing 'speak to an agent' until something…
MAKE THIS WORSE →Studies say AI chatbots flatter users far more than people do. Same questions, two answers: one from a chatbot, one from a human who has met…
MAKE THIS WORSE →Moneymaxxing, loud budgeting, underconsumption core, doom spending. A glossary of money trends from someone doing all of them at once, badly.
MAKE THIS WORSE →Wildflowering: dating with no timeline, 'letting it grow naturally'. Seven months in, I've learned wildflowers mostly get mowed. An open letter.
MAKE THIS WORSE →Clear-coding means stating your dating intentions up front. When two clear-coders meet, it's a hostile takeover with breadsticks. Full transcript.
MAKE THIS WORSE →Micro-dating promises efficient 30-minute dates. I scored mine like a performance review. Punctuality: 4/5. Chemistry: insufficient. Outcome: managed exit.
MAKE THIS WORSE →They vanished for 47 days, then came back with 'heyyy stranger!!' like I was the one who left. A ghostlighting diary. I learned nothing. Twice.
MAKE THIS WORSE →A boss printed an 'Acceptable / Unacceptable' poster for the office kitchen. It starts with mugs. It ends with you never being ill again.
MAKE THIS WORSE →Nobody said 'return to the office'. They added optional lunches, core days and a dashboard. Hybrid creep, week by week, until there was no week left.
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