You money or your life?
March 28, 1948. Sunday night on NBC radio. Jack Benny is walking home from a party with Ronald Colman’s Oscar…
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Mind the present
On the morning of 16 November 1973, Buddhist monks carried a body down to Muir Beach and burned it on a wood pyre. The body belonged to Alan Watts, dead at 58 after years of heavy drinking that his friends had watched with growing alarm.
Grief is love with no place to go
In the opening of the book The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), Didion writes: Life changes fast.Life changes in the…
How to find meaning in a meaningless world
The beautiful ones The 8 mice arrived on July 9, 1968 and got dropped into a steel enclosure at the…
Emotions vs Feelings: What, Why and How it Matters
Article summary Your brain constructs emotions the way an improvising chef builds a dish. Not by following a recipe written…
What is motivation and how to get it?
A groom let himself into the writing room with a cup of coffee. He had been paid £5 a year…
How to Memento Mori
When a Roman general won a major battle, the senate awarded him a triumphus. A triumphus was a massive public…
Systems vs Willpower
On October 30, 1935, the Boeing Model 299 lifted off the runway at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, climbed to…
The Soft Place We All Need
What a lonely monkey, a stuffed orangutan and 70 years of science tell us about being human. A small monkey…
What Personality Tests Predict about Your Future
Most personality tests can’t predict your future. Research shows that only two frameworks reliably forecast grades, income, health and happiness.…