Antidotes for Chimps

How the pursuit of happiness sabotages your life, and why meaning is the ideal replacement

Why you should consider boycotting food delivery services.

Why vulnerability is the key to wholehearted living.

Time is a game played beautifully by children, and by imitating them, we can live our lives more wholeheartedly.

How learning to laugh at yourself can improve your life

How Taoist philosophy can help you let go of your harmful expectations.

Tara Brach’s “radical acceptance” allows you to weaken psychological turmoil by facing it head on

How our quick-consumption online brain affects our ability to think critically, analytically, and to learn new things.

Political division is tearing America apart. To repair it, we need to empathy and understanding.

Routine can be a wellspring of beauty and creativity, if we pay attention.

The web is boundless nourishment for our idle curiosity. And it’s making us sick.

A review of Alan Watt’s evocative book—The Wisdom of Insecurity.

With so much information pollution online, being able to identify accurate information has become more important than ever.

For the existentialists, hope wasn’t just a comforting fantasy, but a rejection of life.

The writing is gorgeous, the subject hideous, and by the time I closed the book, I knew I’d just finished one of the greatest ever…

With such a hatred of the popular press, Republicans turn to deceptive news sources instead.

Our tiny virus-sized reporter chats to the original coronavirus, to understand how this all started.

Michel De Montaigne remains one of the most refreshing philosophers in history, and has tackled a penis or two.

How our psychological immune system gives us a more hopeful reality.

Why black and white thinking makes asses of us.

A little history and a lot of beauty in the Queensland capital of Brisbane.

Why do we sometimes put more effort into impressing strangers, than our long-term partners?

What do you do when you’re subject to philosophical assault?

How a bag made prisoners of us, and our struggle to break free.

The struggle of having an average IQ in a meritocracy, and what to do about it.

Reflections on death from the world’s most insightful people, making us take stock on what’s important in our lives.

Boredom has much to teach us, if we can muster the courage to face it

Why the glut of 21st-century entertainment might be damaging our personal relationships

Tips on how to get a thorough understanding of something, instead of just skimming its surface.

The boundless value to be had dampening your filter, and letting your honesty shine through