"You cannot fact-check your way out of status competition"
Dan Williams frames anti-intellectualism as a status problem: taking expert advice can feel like admitting inferiority. Facts alone won't fix that.
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"If I forget how to be uncomfortable, I forget how to grow"
Jenny refuses AI to keep the friction that helps her grow. I see it as a tool we have to learn to use well, but her case for discomfort is hard to argue with.
16 years: what my wife has taught me about life (so far)
Shannon and I have been together for 16 years. A few things she's taught me about love and life so far, including why you should always pack snacks.
"Motivation is weather, discipline is climate"
Why do we tell young people that good work should feel effortless? My highlights from a piece arguing that discipline matters more than motivation.
“The art of happiness is also the art of suffering well”
Thich Nhat Hanh's No Mud, No Lotus is a book about suffering that turns out to be about happiness. The passages I still return to in hard times.
"Someone that you'd high five but not hug"
On the Ologies podcast, Dr. Kandi Wiens explains how stress turns into burnout and which physical signs to watch for. Plus a great test of friendship.
"I don’t want to hide my grief or my joy"
My university classmate Keith writes straight from the heart about being open with the people who matter. A post that reminded me why I subscribe.
"The ceiling on my appreciation is high, but the floor is high, too"
Sasha Chapin on how to like everything more. Enjoyment is a skill you can train, and so much of the internet trains the opposite one.
"Nobody waves—but everybody waves back"
Jess Pan spent a year living as an extrovert. Her book got me thinking about depth over volume, and about this blog as my way of waving first.