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Today I Learned · by Lotte Jansen · 2026-10-14

My 3-month experiment with culture after a tiny failure

would love to hear how other people handle this. I am especially curious about the version that works on a tired weekday, not just on an ideal Sunday.

I had a disappointing first try, a surprisingly good second try, and then a third attempt that taught me humility. So, naturally, I now have opinions

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Jisoo Park · 12 likes

I would push back gently on the culture part

Maya Putri · 7 likes

What happened after the first week? I am curious whether tiny stayed easy. The social part surprised me too

Maya Putri · 4 likes

Big fan of this approach. For me it came down to the recipe

Lotte Jansen · 1 likes

This is useful for some cases, but terrible advice if the stakes are high

Rohan Mehta · 0 likes

Really good advice, and it feels doable. This is more useful on a tired commute than on a perfect day

Kabir Khan · 8 likes

I like this more then the top-level advice

Achieng Njeri · 0 likes

This is genuinely helpful thanks for writing it out. I would write it down before changing anything else

Noura Alotaibi · 0 likes

glad you shared it; small wins count. This would have saved me a lot of trial and error

Yasmine El Amrani · 0 likes

This is the kind of disagreement I like