Personal Development

Musings on living a better life + becoming a better human. Plus tools, projects and communities that help you do that.

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Failure to Cope "Under Capitalism"

Petersen writes gawker.com

Keely Adler

‘7 Rules of Power’ by Jeffrey Pfeffer: How good people can accumulate power

Kevin J. Delaney charterworks.com

Ilana Ettinger

Deep Laziness

Sarah Perry ribbonfarm.com

Keely Adler

There’s No Speed Limit

Derek Sivers sive.rs

unoptimal

The quest for psychological perfection

Gena Gorlin genagorlin.substack.com

Jay Matthews

Get Numb Before You Get Good

Cedric Chin commoncog.com

Mo Shafieeha

That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if

Prashanth Narayan

some of the biggest challenges faced by computers and human minds alike: how to manage finite space, finite time, limited attention, unknown unknowns, incomplete information, and an unforeseeable future; how to do so with grace and confidence; and how to do so in a community with others who are all simultaneously trying to do the same

LDF

Cognitive bottlenecks: the inherent limits of the thinking mind

Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Reading nesslabs.com

Keely Adler