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Jan 19, 2024

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On Reflection

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Walter Rhein

How an Entitled Response to Adversity Can Be an Example of Toxic Privilege

A disagreement during a basketball game allowed me to perceive a significant flaw in my personality

Jan 11, 2024

How an Entitled Response to Adversity Can Be an Example of Toxic Privilege

Jan 11, 2024

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Middle-Pause

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Jenny Wren

Checking Out So I Can Check Back in

Mint is my model for slow living in a big world.

Nov 13, 2023

Checking Out So I Can Check Back in

Nov 13, 2023

Neha Kandwal

12 NASA recommended air-purifying plants that you must have in your house

The right to clean air is a fundamental right. Yet we rarely ever get to breathe clean air, especially in cities. Now, buying an air…

Dec 12, 2019

12 NASA recommended air-purifying plants that you must have in your house

Dec 12, 2019

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Wise & Well

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Robert Roy Britt

The Overwhelming Lack of Intellectual Humility

We humans all think we know more than we really do. That’s why we argue about everything.

Nov 17, 2023

The Overwhelming Lack of Intellectual Humility

Nov 17, 2023

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On Reflection

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Walter Rhein

How the Mindset of Rural Tribalism Has Held Me Back My Entire Life

A reminder that you have no obligation to maintain any relationship that does not treat you with dignity

Nov 10, 2023

How the Mindset of Rural Tribalism Has Held Me Back My Entire Life

Nov 10, 2023

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Creators Hub

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Clive Thompson

One Weird Trick for Writing a First Draft

Seriously, it’s really weird. But it’s helped me for 25 years!

Apr 30, 2022

One Weird Trick for Writing a First Draft

Apr 30, 2022

Clive Thompson

Let’s Stop Calling It “Content”

Hollywood and tech firms want to reduce culture to a slurry of interchangeable bits. Let’s not help them out

Sep 30, 2023

Let’s Stop Calling It “Content”

Sep 30, 2023

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Mark Manson

Why I’m Wrong About Everything (And So Are You)

F ive hundred years ago cartographers believed California was an island. Doctors believed that slicing your arm open and bleeding…

Jul 31, 2023

Why I’m Wrong About Everything (And So Are You)

Jul 31, 2023

Mark Manson

20 Paradoxes That Are True

Some of the most important truths in life are contradictory on the surface. They seem like impossibilities, yet experience proves them to…

Feb 6, 2013

20 Paradoxes That Are True

Feb 6, 2013

Theo Seeds

How to tell if someone’s full of shit.

Can you tell a real expert from a fake expert? Here are 6 strategies you can use to sort the geniuses from the phonies.

Aug 28, 2023

How to tell if someone’s full of shit.

Aug 28, 2023

Theo Seeds

How to have deeper conversations.

Your 21st century guide to winning friends and influencing people. Plus, lessons from a psychologist, George Carlin, a dating coach, and a…

Sep 18, 2023

How to have deeper conversations.

Sep 18, 2023

Kaki Okumura

Finding optimism when life’s problems feel impossible

What I’ve learned from Japanese values of responsibility

Aug 19, 2023

Finding optimism when life’s problems feel impossible

Aug 19, 2023

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