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Perhaps the title is a tiny bit strong, but I don’t think by much. I read…

I think what’s happening to America right now can best be captured as a…

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There’s a lot of confusion about the term Postmodernism. To people on the…

I have been drawn to questions of happiness and fulfillment for much of my adult…

We in the West are in the beginning—or perhaps the middle of—a catastrophic…

The idea is that there are two ways for humans to derive happiness: This will…

I think a lot about happiness and how to achieve it.—both as individuals,…

A while back I wrote a short piece called Addiction Caused by Isolation, where…

For like the last 10 years I’ve been looking for a solid book summarization…

I think I bring this up every year or so, but the point is becoming more acute…

I’ve been thinking about the role of desire in the human identity, and I think…

As I get older I become increasingly convinced that the center of happiness is…

I have a theory for why music makes us feel good. Not a theory—a hypothesis.…

There are many articles—like this one—that say that automation and…

“It has no relationship whatsoever to anything anchored in some kind of metaphysical…

I read a fantastic piece in Las Vegas on a guy who did LSD regularly for over…

I think the most important skill in life might be facing failure, defeat, and…

I realized something a few months ago about youth and meaning. I think the reason…

I’ve been somewhat serious about coffee for many years, and I’m settling…

I woke up at 5:30am this morning with an idea. Many studies have shown that appreciation…

Perhaps one of the problems in the western world is that there is an inherent…

The question of how to attain happiness is one of the most timeless and important…

I subscribe to a model of human understanding that sees each person as a combination…

In this post I talk a good amount about the future of happiness, but I want to…

I am a lucky bundle of molecules. I received this form after the big bang happened,…

The search for happiness has been in progress for millennia, and despite numerous…

“Future research should investigate whether the decreased rate of depression…

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I’ve mentioned this book I’m reading, Spent, a number of times, and…

You may have heard some version of a cliché that, “We are our memories.”,…

Researchers have wondered for a long time why those who are religious tend to…

I am going to do something that could be considered embarrassing: I want to capture…

As a manager one of the core things I focus on with my team is keeping track of…

In both work and life, there are few things worse than having the wrong metrics.…

I just finished reading Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect for the first time in…

We humans are fantasy engines. Evolution, wanting to make us as successful as…

I believe it’s hardest to lose someone you love when it happens unexpectedly.…

I rarely read essays that I know to be in my top five of all time, but I just…