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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web One-Third of Americans Making $250,000 Live Paycheck-to-Paycheck: Survey My mom might say, “Cry me a river.” We need an income, and that income should grow throughout our lives. But financial success has never been just about what we earn. Oliver Burkeman’s Last Column: The Eight Secrets to …
Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Seven Varieties of Stupidity We seek to better understand intelligence. We should seek to understand stupidity with equal vigor. ‘Everything Is Terrible, but I’m Fine’ I’m doing great; all those other people are suffering. I’m Right, and You’re an Evil Monster It should be strange to us …
Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Aristotle Goes to Hollywood Catharsis is the real power of the Story. When we go from, “That poor man,” to “That could be me,” empathy is born. Earnings Math Catches Up With the Tech Highfliers Earnings drive stock prices. Sometimes this means we can feel comfortable while …
Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web What’s the Secret to Happiness? My dad would love this. He would read it and quote Polonius’ instruction to Laertes: “This above all: to thine own self be true.” Happiness begins with knowing ourselves. Mindfulness Hurts. That’s Why It Works. Confronting our challenges hurts. Ignoring reality and …
Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web OPINION: It May Be Time to Rethink the Emphasis on Taking Calculus in High School How many high school graduates go on to really use trigonometry and calculus? Maybe we should teach statistics (or economics) instead. I Got Lost Hiking in the California Sierra. Here’s How I …
Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Nobody Knows Anything, Kentucky Derby Edition The best thing I read this week: On Overconfidence. No, America Is Not Collapsing The fall of America is not on the horizon. Our demise is being over-stated. How Good Are You at Detecting Bullshit? Take Our Test Because we are …
Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web How To Make New Friends as An Adult—And Keep Them Just a quick thank you to some old friends, Gary, Chris, Jay, and John… and a new one, Sven. I would be a disaster without you. The Mental Health Consequences of Staring at Yourself on Zoom All …
Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Why American Teens Are So Sad I worry a lot (too much?) about my kids’ state of mind… for ALL of these reasons. Employee Performance Vs. Trust What matters most to employers – Trust or Performance – often depends on the size of the business. Asset Allocation …
Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web Why The Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid I didn’t share this last week because I had not read the whole thing. Now that I’ve read it – twice – I think it is the most important thing we can read. It is …
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