An honest, skeptical, wholehearted dive into the weird, sketchy, cringey, occasionally inspirational and life-changing world of self-improvement. Pretty much what it says in the title.
Hi! I’m Meg Conley. I write about the intersection of capitalism, culture and care work at Pocket Observatory. Select essays are republished to Substack. If you'd like to receive my official (FREE) newsletter, subscribe here + I'll take care of the rest!
A newsletter about rejiggered classics, transmasculine underpinnings of the plucky heroine, and the failure-limits of graciousness, from table manners to family estrangement.