The Guardian
Put your life into flight mode
It wasn’t overly surprising, really, to learn from two recent psychology studies that being “on call” is …
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The Atlantic
Why It's So Hard for Millennials to Find a Place to Live and Work
The paradox of the American Dream: The best cities to get ahead are often the most expensive places to live, and the most …
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How do I stop comparing myself to others?
I always have this problem of feeling inadequate. I’m a junior CS student at a decent but not great school. Some of my …
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Coliving: A Solution for Lonely Millennials?
In a new model of living, residents will have their own “microunits” built around a shared living space for …
LifeMedium
Reconsider
Part of the problem seems to be that nobody these days is content to merely put their dent in the universe. No, they have to …
LifeThe New York Times
Stressed, Tired, Rushed - A Portrait of the Modern Family
The data are the latest to show that while family structure seems to have permanently changed, public policy, workplace …
LifeStumbling and Mumbling
Grit beats talent
The later Nobel laureate James Buchanan used to advise his graduate students: “keep your ass in the chair”. Woody …
LifeFarnam Street
Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
In April of 1958, Hunter S. Thompson was 22 years old when he wrote this letter to his friend Hume Logan in response to a …
LifeNewsweek
Homeless Millennials Are Transforming Hobo Culture
The vagabond ecosystem is changing thanks to cellphones, Wi-Fi, Craigslist and Google Maps.
LifeMedium
7 things I did to reboot my life
I had this epiphany at the beginning of September: This thing that I’m doing? This series of choices I make every day? …
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Most People Won't
Most people won’t. But every once in a while someone puts themselves out there. Makes the leap. Faces rejection or …
LifeMedium
The 'Get My Shit Together' Afternoon
Even the most diligent of us has loose ends we can tie up: unnecessary costs, insurance, emergency preparedness, and so on. …
LifeThe Guardian
Why too much choice is stressing us out
From jeans to dating partners and TV subscriptions to schools, we think the more choices we have the better. But too many …
LifeBrain Pickings
9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings
Reflections on the rewards of seeking out what magnifies your spirit.
LifeMedium
How to be an Overnight Success
I bet so many reading this are not happy because they aren’t getting what they want in life; they are expecting it too …
LifeTED
How Great Leaders Inspire Action
Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question …
Life VideoOutside Online
We Don't Need No Education
At least not of the traditional, compulsory, watch-the-clock-until-the-bell-rings kind. As a growing movement of unschoolers …
LifeThe Guardian
I gave it all up... to live off the land
Last year, my boyfriend Laurence and I gave up our jobs to go in search of an alternative way to live. I’m from London …
LifeThe Atlantic
The Terror and Tedium of Living Like Thoreau
When you’re alone in a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness, the simplest question becomes the most complicated: How do you …
LifeSeth's Blog
In search of meaningful
Since 1989, when I first started doing online media, people have been transfixed by scale, by numbers, by rankings. …
LifeThe Art of Manliness
How to Develop the Situational Awareness of Jason Bourne
As the names implies, situational awareness is simply knowing what’s going on around you. It sounds easy in principle, …
Life TravelJames Altucher Blog
The Ultimate Guide for Becoming an Idea Machine
The way to have good ideas is to get close to killing yourself. It’s like weightlifting. When you lift slightly more …
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Alan Watts on Money vs. Wealth
Among our most toxic symbol-as-reality tricks springs from the concept, use, and pursuit of money: “But this ingrained …
Life WorkTED
Where Is Home?
More and more people worldwide are living in countries not considered their own. Writer Pico Iyer — who himself has three or …
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From US Marine To Zen Monk
Scott Mangis is a former US Marine who now lives his life as a Zen monk near Tokyo, Japan. We explore Scott’s life …
LifeBuilding Asana
Work Hard, Live Well
As an industry, we are falling short of our potential. We could be accomplishing more, and we could be providing a better …
Life WorkHow To Suck At Life
My life sucked when I was fired from a job and lost my home and got a divorce and my mom stopped talking to me. It sucked …
LifeNautilus
Money Doesn't Buy Happiness, But Time Just Might Do It
While on vacation in distant locales, people often find that time moves quite differently than in the places they’re …
LifeThe New York Times
The Moral Bucket List
I came to the conclusion that wonderful people are made, not born — that the people I admired had achieved an unfakeable …
LifeProject Gutenberg
How To Live On Twenty-Four Hours A Day
We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is. It is the realisation of this …
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