Manoj Surya
Loneliness – [How to identify and deal with it]
Stats show people are becoming more and lonelier. Loneliness can bring you closer to death than your drinking friends, obese …
LifeLife
What's life? Across our curated articles and stories, you'll find a 21st Century perspective on topics such as life lessons, creativity, mindfulness, self-improvement, and much more.
Bennett Notes
People Who Are Obsessed With Success and Prestige
What does it look like to be obsessed with success and prestige? It probably looks a lot like me at the moment. A guy who …
LifeDerek Sivers
Time is personal. Your year changes when your life changes.
A new day begins when I wake up, not at midnight. Midnight means nothing to me. It’s not a turning point. Nothing …
LifeBehavioral Scientist
Why We Spiral
You’re 12 minutes late to the weekly staff Zoom. Once you’ve “joined audio,” the first thing you hear is the boss’s voice. …
Life WorkHarvard Business Review
You Need to Be Bored. Here’s Why.
You need to be bored. You will have less meaning and you will be more depressed if you never are bored. I mean, it couldn’t …
LifeThe Guardian
Don’t like joining in? Why it could be your superpower
Some people spend their lives feeling out of place in groups – but this tendency comes with unique opportunities.
LifeThe Wall Street Journal
Nobody’s Buying Homes, Nobody’s Switching Jobs—and America’s Mobility Is Stalling
The paralysis has left many people in houses that are too small, in jobs they don’t love or shackled with ‘golden handcuffs.’ …
Life WorkThe Wall Street Journal
Adults Are Going to Sleep-away Camp to Make Friends. It Seems to Actually Work.
Overnight camps are increasingly catering to solo travelers who are looking for in person connection
LifeThe New Yorker
A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem
The discomfort of loneliness shapes us in ways we don’t recognize—and we may not like what we become without it.
LifeExperimental History
Face it: you're a crazy person
When people have a hard time figuring out what to do with their lives, it’s often because they haven’t unpacked.
LifeUseful Fictions
How to increase your surface area for luck
One distinguishing feature I’ve noticed among people who are unusually successful is that they just try a lot of stuff — …
Lifelearning-loving & meaning-making
Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage
There is a moment, just before creation begins, when the work exists in its most perfect form in your imagination. It lives …
LifeThe Guardian
The life swap dream – or a marketing gimmick? The Italian towns selling houses for €1
Frustrated with my life back in the US, I was captivated by the idea of a new home – and new life – for less than the price …
LifeThe New York Times
When Humans Learned to Live Everywhere
About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for …
LifeClearer Thinking
Believing you only have one option is dangerous
Often when we only see one option, there really are others that we’re not considering. So, read on to find out some of …
LifeThe Guardian
Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds
Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media.
LifeHarvard Kennedy School
The Friendship Recession: The Lost Art of Connecting
According to the American Perspectives Survey, the percentage of U.S. adults who report having no close friends has …
LifeSimon Späti
Finding Flow: Escaping Digital Distractions Through Deep Work and Slow Living
A personal guide to reclaiming focus in the age of endless temptation.
LifeHarimus blog
Kakizome, Japanese way of new-years resolution
Instead of “I’m going to read one book at least, per week” you can do “It’s the year of reading”. Instead of X days per week …
LifeArchitectural Digest
Should More of Us Be Moving to Live Near Friends?
For these six people, the realest consideration in real estate acquisition was the friends they made along the way.
LifeHarvard Business Review
Will You Make Good on Your New Year’s Resolution?
We all tend to make resolutions that are aspirational—and thus quickly abandoned. And when societal systems are failing—in …
LifeThe Times
Why conversations are better with four people
Three might be a crowd but four appears to be the magic number when it comes to conversation. And, according to an academic …
LifeCNN
Tokyo government gives workers 4-day workweek to boost fertility, family time
The Japanese capital is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees, in its latest push to help working …
Life WorkGizmodo
'Enshittification' Is Officially the Biggest Word of the Year
That rage you feel as you deal with every single piece of tech in your life? It’s caused by enshittification and the …
LifeAdam Grant
My Social Anxiety Cheat Sheet for Mingling
I’m not here to cure social anxiety, but I have managed to empower myself enough in social situations that I got to …
LifeThe New Yorker
Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds
New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.
LifeThe Guardian
The big idea: should we be thinking about luck differently?
We tend to focus on good or bad fortune, successes and failures. But what about the fact you’re here at all?
LifeHarvard Business Review
We're Still Lonely at Work
Many aspects of modern life contribute to loneliness, including cultural, economic, demographic, and technological factors …
Life WorkThe Guardian
Europe beats the US for walkable, livable cities, study shows
Cities such as Zurich and Dublin found to have key services accessible within 15 minutes for more than 95% of residents.
Life TravelCBC
Cities are overheating. How do we cool them down?
It’s possible to plan for heat in cities, with more trees, better windows and even daylighting streams.
Life