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The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — even in that we skip forward — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of... See more

Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age

Parenting and family stuff

One of the most valuable mental heuristics i’ve adopted for my life is: “what you have is what you deserve” This doesn’t mean you don’t have the potential to become the type of person who “deserves better”. You do. Probably 10X or even 100x so. But you, as you... See more

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David Foster Wallace: "there's a lot of narcissism in self-hatred"

Because the question isn’t just What are you watching, reading, listening to?

It’s Who is it turning you into?

You Are Your Cultural Diet

When stumped by a life choice, choose “enlargement” over happiness. I’m indebted to the Jungian therapist James Hollis for the insight that major personal decisions should be made not by asking, “Will this make me happy?”, but “Will this choice enlarge me or diminish me?” We’re terrible at predicting what will make us happy: the question swiftly... See more

Oliver Burkeman • Oliver Burkeman's Last Column: The Eight Secrets to a (Fairly) Fulfilled Life

going slow