Odds & Ends: September 25, 2026
Salesman. My latest Criterion watch was this 1969 documentary, which follows four door-to-door salesmen from the…
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The 5-Minute Habit That Will Reenergize Your Body and Mind
You’re surely familiar with the idea that humans spend a lot more time sitting than they used to. If you haven’t…
Podcast #1,134: The One-Skill-a-Year Plan for a More Interesting Life
Host: Brett McKayProducer: Kate McKay September 22, 2026We all have things we’ve always wanted to know how…
A Man’s Guide to the Raglan Tee
The raglan tee (or as most guys know it, the baseball tee) is a shirt with sleeves that contrast in color from…
Autofocus: The Productivity System That Treats Your To-Do List Like a River
In one of the emails Oliver Burkeman, author of Time Management for Mortals, sent out to his subscribers, he…
Odds & Ends: September 18, 2026
The virtual Criterion Closet. If you’ve been following along with me for a while, you know I’ve been on a quest…
Camping Etiquette: The Dos and Don’ts
By: Brett & Kate McKay September 17, 2026When it comes to camping, there are rules you should follow…
The Final Strenuous Life Enrollment of 2026 Is Now Open!
Hard as it may be to believe, we’re less than four months away from the end of 2026. If this year has gone by…
Podcast #1,133: The 3-Step System for Simplifying Your Work and Life
Host: Brett McKayProducer: Kate McKay September 15, 2026When people are faced with problems and complexity,…
How to Handle Getting Rejected By a Woman
After weeks of friendly chats with the woman you keep running into at the coffee shop, you worked up the nerve…
100 Skills Every Man Should Know
It’s been fodder for many a heated debate among men for centuries.What skills should every man know?A vast…
Odds & Ends: September 12, 2026
YouTube Update Video. While I used to regularly make videos for YouTube, I stopped ten years ago because I don’t…
What Is Manliness, Anyway? | The Art of Manliness
Launching the redesign of the Art of Manliness has gotten me thinking about our history, and how my…
Welcome to the Redesigned AoM
Every five years or so, Kate and I get the itch to redesign the Art of Manliness. I don’t fully know where…
Podcast #1,132: If I Don’t Return — A General’s Wartime Journal for His Sons
When Mark Hertling learned he was deploying for Operation Desert Storm, he decided to start a journal.Back…
Odds & Ends: September 4, 2026
Harakiri. My latest Zone 2-watching, trying-to-become-a-film-buff movie was this 1962 Japanese samurai film…
A Field Guide to 8 Regional Burger Styles
Americans love hamburgers, and few foods have been interpreted in as many different ways. From Connecticut to…
Podcast #1,131: To Change Yourself, Change Your Situation
in: Character, Podcast, Self-Improvement Brett & Kate McKay • September 1, 2026 Professor of…
How My Grandpa Built a Big Life From Little Purposes
On a recent episode of the AoM podcast, I talked with Jordan Grumet, a hospice doctor and the author of The…
How to Make Yourself Easier to Talk To
In the two-way dance of social interactions, there’s plenty you can do to act smoothly yourself — from smiling…