Things that make you go Hmmmm

The internet has made us all cargo cultists to some degree. We see someone successful describe their process and we assume that their success flows from that process. We copy the external forms without understanding which elements actually matter. Maybe the successful person's elaborate morning routine contributed to their achievements, or maybe... See more

Anxiety about the “meaning” of citizenship and anxiety about who belongs in America, in other words, more than share a border (pun intended?) with anxieties about low birth rates. Because the vision for raising the American birth rate is also not about creating a nation with stronger ties. Rather, it’s about forcing women back into roles that they... See more

I emailed some of the early members of the women’s movement to ask how men around them adapted to such fast-moving changes. When it came to their intimate male partners, they told me, hostility toward feminism wasn’t so blatant; as it had with Mor, it took the form of a jumbled ambivalence that had the power to make reasonable women feel utterly

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The Energy Audit

So what is energy, really?

We don’t know. Not exactly. But we know this: it leaves signatures. And if you want to understand how energy is working in your life, the cleanest method is biological observation .

• Which people leave you feeling charged?


• Which ones leave you drained?


• What foods wake you up?


• What foods sedate you?


• What

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