About

Extraordinary Routines is an archived labour of love by writer Madeleine Dore exploring how people cope with the ebb and flow of daily life.

read the Book

The many lessons gleaned from the project have been collected in the book, I Didn’t Do The Thing Today.

Explore the archive

In this archive, you can peruse hundreds of interviews, experiments and musings.

You can also listen to three seasons of the companion podcast Routines & Ruts

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