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A few weeks ago I woke up anxious about a few things: a lack of clarity on a project I’m working on, the misfortune a friend recently experienced, an upcoming trip, general planetary vibes. But then while putting away the…

We are all of us descended from creatures who—while figuring out how to feed and protect themselves in an oft-dangerous and unfriendly world—somehow found the time to invent poetry, trebuchets, the microprocessor, and Love Is Blind. We contain multitudes, in…

If you sleep terribly (or miss an entire night of sleep) you accumulate sleep debt. That debt isn’t easy to pay back, as it’s not a matter of simply napping an hour a day until you’ve caught up. The complete…

At the reading group I run every Sunday, our loose rhythm is to meet up, chit-chat for a bit, and then go around the table and have everyone say something about the book they brought to read. We then read…

I’m fortunate not to have all the details of my early adulthood chiseled into the immortal stone surface of the internet. Facebook materialized midway through my university career, and the majority of what was shared by me and my peers…

The most fundamental thing to remember when interacting with other human beings is that they are people, just like you. This shouldn’t be a heterodox statement, yet much of what’s published in the “how to flirt,” “how to network,” “how…

When something’s going wrong with your health or your life or your relationships, or if you’ve suffered some horrible experience or found yourself holding just a really bad hand of cards, it’s understandable that you might begin to feel like…

Many of the real-life conversations I’ve had recently have orbited around the theme that everything’s changing, kinda sorta really fast, but also in some ways too slow to accurately perceive. It’s the boiling frog problem at scale. We can point…

When developing a new habit, it can be helpful to set yourself up for success in your strongest moments so that you’re more likely to maintain the habit when you’re not at your best. If you’re trying to eat less…

I’ve been stuck inside for days. First a heat wave rolled through, blasting the area with 100-degree-plus temperatures and skin-glazing humidity levels that made leaving an air conditioned space inadvisable. Then a continent-belting plume of wildfire smoke flowed down from…