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An important distinction to make, therefore, is the difference between a fetter and a behavior which indicates we have that fetter. For example, crav

While those sorts of reactions might feel like the right things to do at the time, they don’t really help: instead of feeling better, we will likely f

It also touches on the Mandela Effect, ie. many people recalling the same event that never happened, or remembering details that don't reflect reality

There is a corollary for relationships. Some relationships are hard, or even impossible, to change. As an individual, you grow—but your father won’t a

o my surprise, looking for a "self" was much more straightforward than I thought it would be. Many other things were seen (and heard, felt, etc.), su

To honor individuals, we need to offer in individual portal into the network. A place where you aren't constrained by societal norms, by the need to r

What if you and your friends had your own little internet, the size of a room? No outside influence, no outside information, no viral trends, no conte

There should be lots of different, human-scale alternative experiences on the internet that offer up home-cooked, locally-grown, ethically-sourced, co

we all have needs that need to be tended to. I always wonder, what if care is the work? What if caring for ourselves is the revolution, meaning, what

To keep critical feedback in the first category, the research tells us that it should have five elements: the care of the recipient in mind; respectfu

We might ‘dissociate’ and do the opposite: we check out, numb ourselves, engage in escapism, or fixate harder on connecting with others. In a state of

More importantly, it’s about listening to your own self like you really, really matter. It’s taking time to actually connect with yourself, ask yourse

What we often think of as needs are actually strategies for addressing our needs. For example, you might want a cup of coffee in the morning. That’s n

Security is fundamentally about being able to hold and stay in the tension of uncertainty without compulsively resolving it or dispelling it.

patriarchy mystifies technology, casting it as a domain beyond the possibility of comprehension for all but certain experts. Mystification hides the e

As a political theorist, hooks believed fiercely in the power of naming systems—her recurring phrase, in defining what we are up against, was “white s

In We Need To Rewild The Internet, Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon make a very compelling and urgent case for aggressively rewilding the internet, as B

The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partn

Movies are about romance. Novels are about adultery. This is the stuff that falls between, the stuff we never mention, the stuff we call life and forg

One antidote is to allow yourself to imagine what it might feel like to know you'd never fully get on top of your work, never become a really discipli

Not everything I've wanted has manifested. This has usually been a blessing in disguise. Too many times I've believed that I wanted and needed somethi

moving on to acceptance ...was going to be in for the long run, i’m not going to get yes’s right away and part of that means i’ll have to keep searchi

the problem is that the overwhelming majority of workers across the world don’t get a great deal of satisfaction out of their jobs. In the most recent

I won’t speak for anyone else, but I will say that this is the first time in my life that I’m not so confident the future’s going to be as rosy as I o

Work that benefits from my specific skills and ideas. Work that benefits the people who receive it. A salary that enables me to live a comfortable lif

Lots of pain at work comes from being someone else. It’s only when we find or create a job in which we can truly be ourselves, that we realize how muc

This kind of clubbishness seems to be especially congenial to men, who seem to enjoy the ritual aspects offered by formal speeches, songs, toasts and

As in our study, he found that males preferred to engage in physical activities rather than conversation.

That might have as much to do with the fact that men’s friendships are dominated, at the best of times, by an out-of-sight-out-of-mind effect.