This week’s Soft Stack explores, tools and rituals for making your mornings as bearable as possible. Because waking up is already hard enough. Might as well soften the blow.

Since this week’s Dispatch covered financial glow-ups and sweet ATO refunds, this Soft Stack round-up focuses on tools, resources, and small indulgences that align with that “from broke to better” energy. I may be hopelessly delulu, but I have a financial solulu.

For when you're trying to build wealth, but gently. No Wolf of Wall Street energy here. Just good habits, tidy apps, and the occasional oat latte.

Trading chaos for calm, here’s a stack of digital tools, objects, and rituals helping me stay regulated, focused, and unbothered (or at least less bothered than I was last week).