Lifestyle
When Should You “Follow Your Gut”?
Our subconscious ideas and feelings can be enormously helpful—or hugely destructive—depending on the conscious thinking that informs them.
Politics & Liberty
Politics and Living Your Best Life
Too much politics is bad for your mental health. But if we want to live lives based on rational values, we must engage in politics—in a certain way.
Lifestyle
Why I Used to Skip School Every Day
A podcast episode has helped me finally understand why I used to skip class every day and go exploring instead.
Lifestyle
Are Your Ideas Your Own?
It's not where you got an idea that matters, but how you came to accept it.
Business & Finance
Three Principles for Finding Meaningful, Fulfilling Work
Is your work meaningful and interesting to you? If not, do you have a plan for how to transition to work that is?
Lifestyle
A Week with the New Intellectuals
Here are three big takeaways I got from my week at the New Intellectuals Conference.
Lifestyle
Your Time Is Your Own
Your time is your life, in more ways than one. Here are three important applications of this principle to help you guard your time and put it to best use in support of your wellbeing.
Lifestyle
The Problem with Mindfulness
Many popular figures tout mindfulness as a way to improve your happiness, calm your mind, and reach a state of focus. But is it really the best way to achieve those goals?
Lifestyle
Dealing with Others’ Irrationality
I have made a list of a few practices that have helped me deal with irrational people and reduce how much their irrationality affects my ability to enjoy my life.
Lifestyle
The Fundamental Flaw Undermining “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”
The book provides a standout example of the essential importance of being critical and paying close attention to the ideas implicit in books on self-improvement and good living, not just their surface-level advice.
Lifestyle
Cheap Productivity: Procrastination in Disguise
“Cheap productivity” is my term for when we do a task that—although useful and productive—enables us to put off some more important or daunting task.
Lifestyle
Struggling with a Project? Try Going on a Retreat
I decided to go on a countryside retreat, and it’s one of the best decisions I ever made.