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It's always the first Monday of the rest of your life

On urgency, novelty, and starting again

Jan 5 • Lexi Merritt

If you want consistency, you need accommodation

(finally!) a YouTube video about Big Paper Planning Day

Jan 13 • Lexi Merritt

26 Things To Do This Liminal Space Week

+ an invitation to three days of life design workshops <3

Dec 30, 2025 • Lexi Merritt

How To Make A Meme (Serious)

A embarrassingly earnest experiment in crafting inside jokes online

Dec 4, 2025 • Lexi Merritt

31 things I'd tell myself at 21

10. Being critical about everything is a fun intellectual exercise until you realize you’re also doing it in the mirror.

Nov 25, 2025 • Lexi Merritt

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You Can't See Me, But I Can Make You Rich

May 9, 2024 • Lexi Merritt

Five years of morning pages

Jan 12, 2025 • Lexi Merritt

How I'd Launch A Non-Fiction Book

Jun 25, 2025 • Lexi Merritt

Aspirational Labor & The Mythologies of Creative Work

Sep 1, 2025 • Lexi Merritt

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Bored On The Internet?

Magnet poetry, three minute essays, and other ways to make Zooms more fun

Nov 11, 2025 • Lexi Merritt

Too SMART For Your Own Good

SMART goals made me feel like a failure. Abstract goals changed my life.

Oct 24, 2025 • Lexi Merritt

Structured Novelty > Cosplaying Productivity

An experiment in doing what you want <3

Oct 9, 2025 • Lexi Merritt

The Next Three Months

Wyd October 16?

Oct 2, 2025 • Lexi Merritt

How Artists Make Money On The Internet

+ an experiment in mindful scrolling

Sep 8, 2025 • Lexi Merritt

Aspirational Labor & The Mythologies of Creative Work

Everyone has to practice. If you do well at that unpaid internship, you might even get offered a job!

Sep 1, 2025 • Lexi Merritt

Trying In Public

Trying In Public

An experiment in writing for a living. Shared from the Pretty Decent Internet Café.

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A weekly planning ritual that actually works

Artists need epiphanies. Why not plan for them?

Jun 2, 2025 • Lexi Merritt

How I Use Notion To Organize My 102,394 Good Ideas

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