Moral Licensing: Why Good People Do Bad Things
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. Matteo sat on the floor watching his cat, Gus. Gus had pressed his entire body against the heating vent.…
Ghost Polishers: When Your Performance Exceeds Your Existence
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. Jeff Bezos was sitting in a 31st-floor office in Manhattan when he ran the calculation that would build the…
The Fluidity Protocol: What Bruce Lee Taught Us About Adaptive Systems
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. You have probably seen the black-and-white clip. Pierre Berton interviewing Bruce Lee in Hong Kong. Berton asks the martial…
How the Terracotta Warriors Taught Me About Rediscovery and Healing
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. The bicycle was older than it had any right to be, and the man renting it to me from…
Low Expectations: Why Barry Schwartz was Right in 2005
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. In 2005, Barry Schwartz delivered a line to a TED audience that challenged the fundamental foundation of high achievement.…
The Bridge You Build Through Suffering
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. The train from Bangkok rattled west for three hours. The air grew thicker. The rice fields gave way to…
Performative Skepticism: Why Knee-Jerk Doubt is the New Laziness
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. You want to know what drives me crazy? You might expect me to say "liars." No, liars are easy.…
Significance: Why Needing to Matter Is Making You Small
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. My friend keeps peacocks. Real living peacocks, wandering her property like living chandeliers. They're magnificent and exhausting to watch.…
What To Do When the Efficiency Trap Is Making You Miserable
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. A machine exists to transform inputs into outputs. Fuel in, motion out. Hours in, results out. A garden exists…
Some Days You Don’t Want to Do Anything. That’s Perfectly Alright.
Reading Time: 8 mins # This post may contain affiliate links. Last Saturday started like every other. Before my feet even hit the floor, my brain was already running the…
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