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from “acquisition mode” to “enjoyment mode.”

first time i read something that - I feel - describe so well my own relationship with Mathilde, met at 17, and together for 18 years (and counting)

But Haidt also spends a fair amount of the book exploring a comprehensive moral matrix (fascinating) along with the need for the divine—or specifically, a need to belong to something bigger than ourselves, balanced by a hunger for awe. He spends a fair number of pages exploring (and gently denouncing) the New Atheist movement for (willfully) misunderstanding the role of religion in peoples’ lives—he points out that people are motivated to show up for each other not because of shared beliefs but because of belonging. Absent something to belong to, we are adrift.

To me, having my own website, even one I run as a business with my friends, gives me a degree of freedom over my own work that I’ve never had before.