The meaning of life is something like: To trade the constraints imposed upon you by others, for constraints you impose upon yourself. If you fail to design your own choice architecture, one will be assigned to you. The brain loves efficiency; the brain wants to preserve bandwidth; but the brain is agnostic as to who installs the routines. When ever

In describing the nature of work on the self, the literatures of self-improvement offer two distinct options: the path of endless effort and the path of absolute effortlessness.

The internet of today, designed to make you a permanent input, does more than just steal time from you; it erodes your agency and substitutes internet-awareness for self-awareness. Those are the three things—time, agency, and self-awareness—that we use to construct our identities. Without them, sense of self weakens, identity destabilizes, and the