The New Rules

To: Myself
From: Me
CC: My Friends and Family

  1. No clothes are worth paying tons of money on. You are going to ruin them at some point anyway.
  2. Don’t buy any more thumb drives. Any file too big to SSH to your home PC isn’t worth putting on a USB drive you will likely lose, destroy, or wash in the washing machine. Burn a CD.
  3. Stop buying nice pens. You leave them in your pockets and wash them in the washing machine, destroying them and all of your clothes.
  4. Stop feeling guilty about everything
  5. Get more sleep.
  6. Read more, you like it.
  7. Cheer the fuck up, you miserable piece of crap.
  8. Play more music. You like that too.
  9. Keep all pens, thumb drives, CDs, clothes, food, and books you need to read in the gigantic messenger bag you complaint about never filling.
  10. Cease and desist all general paranoid daydreaming about unusually horrible things happening to you and your loved ones. Your family doesn’t even know you do this, it’s better to just quit it and avoid the therapy down the road.
  11. Stop staying up until 1 AM making dumb self-help lists.

9 Responses to “The New Rules”


  1. 1 luke

    love this list. noted.

  2. 2 Scrivener

    It is a great list, especially number 7.

  3. 3 Kim

    Rule #12
    Hug your girlfriend more. She likes it.

  4. 4 Justin

    I will update the rules from time to time.

  5. 5 drew

    12. Add drewandbritt.org back to the blogroll. They like it and it makes drew feel important.

  6. 6 Justin

    I don’t remember deleting you from it, but I haven’t added you because the blogroll is either going to go away or be moved to a separate page.

    My whole plan is to remove the sidebar. I’ll put you back.

  7. 7 Justin

    I haven’t been too good about following this list.

  8. 8 Scrivener

    And here I was happily imagining that you were living a life of joy and fulfillment because of The List. Why’y ya have to go and dash my dreams, man?

  9. 9 Justin

    I have been looking through some old posts and I have found a few of them which are positively embarrassing, but others, like this one, that I wish I had kept mindful of.

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