Laura Pike Seeley
@laurapikeseeley
Laura Pike Seeley
How many times have you tried to remember something important and felt it slip through your grasp?
Atria Books • Building a Second Brain
Sometimes, it’s really hard to be happy. And there’s a reason for that: The human brain isn’t hard-wired for happiness. Why? Because happiness isn’t essential for survival.
Why humans are surprisingly bad at being happy
Finding your essential self: the ancient philosophy of Zhuangziexplained
bigthink.com
The ability to connect and form strong social bonds is fundamental to human experience and emerged through unique structures in our brains. But ever-more-powerful technologies and ubiquitous access to media have hijacked our need to connect intimately and emotionally with others.
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The Enlightenment changed the course of human history, placing reason at the center of culture. Our current project of civilization is failing and needs a new direction. Learning about life in the Universe highlights the uniqueness of our planet and of life here. This knowledge should pave the way to a new Enlightenment, one with the goal of... See more
Marcelo Gleiser • Enlightenment 2.0: We need another Age of Reason to save our civilization
How many of these things we produce is not productivity. How you spend your life is.
Kelly Stout • Is It Even Possible to Become More Productive?
When boys are showing care and concern and support for other people, celebrate it in the same way that you might celebrate more traditional things that are celebrated for boys, like sports victories or catching a big fish. You want to celebrate when they care for friends or family, too
Keren Landman • How to talk to boys so they grow into better men
instead of mandating employees commute to work like ants during rush-hour traffic to be warehoused in cubicles invented in another era, we need to accept that our fundamental patterns of behavior have changed. Our firm has been investigating ways to make the office building a place people want to come to instead of being forced to attend.