Sublime

Status quo bias

Stephen Wendel • Designing for Behavior Change: Applying Psychology and Behavioral Economics

this means that I believe the right action is the one that maximizes total ‘utility’ in the world (you can think of that as total happiness minus total pain).”

Zeke Faux • Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

VIRTUE IS UP; DEPRAVITY IS DOWN

George Lakoff • Metaphors We Live By

‘Does this choice diminish me, or enlarge me?’

Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks

“The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.”—John Rawls

Timothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

Philosophy

Michael Huemer • Knowledge, Reality, and Value: A Mostly Common Sense Guide to Philosophy

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taylorpearson.me • The Illegible Margin: Profiting From the Gap Between the Map and the Territory

Is the way things are right now optimal—or, adopting a lower standard, acceptable?

Adam Alter • Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most

rationality;