Kylie-Anne Kelly can’t remember the exact moment she became her boyfriend’s one and only, his what would I do without you, but she does remember neglecting her own needs to the point of hospitalization. “I talked him through his aspirations, validated his opinions, and supported his career. I had to…

“It’s not true that no one needs you anymore.” These words came from an elderly woman sitting behind me on a late-night flight from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. The plane was dark and quiet. A man I assumed to be her husband murmured almost inaudibly in response, something to the effect of “I…

Humans have a fundamental problem dealing with climate change. While the climate deals in decades, centuries and millennia, people are generally dead well within a century and make decisions on far shorter timeframes still. Take politicians. Their decisions are typically based on the next election,…

When train doors close, these jingles warn riders to stand clear. Montreal’s signature “doo-doo-doo” has the same intervals as the opening for Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man.” In Budapest, a fleeting arpeggio sounds like a cheerful “ta-da!” [Hungarian] Kérem, vigyázzanak, az ajtók…

Last winter, a risk analyst at Credit Suisse noticed that one of their clients, a hedge fund named Archegos, was light on collateral. As is common in this world of high finance, Credit Suisse had loaned Archegos money to buy stock. The value of Archegos’s position had come down and the bank’s models…

TOKYO — Simone Biles had already given up on the idea of opening the Olympic team competition with a Yurchenko double pike, the kind of eye-popping, high-scoring, highlight-reel entrance that intimidates opponents, entices sponsors and wins golds. She didn’t have it. Not tonight. She knew that much.…

transcript 0:00/1:09:29 -1:09:29 transcript Modern work culture is built on a broken model of the mind. 2021-07-20T05:00:07-04:00 ezra klein I’m Ezra Klein, and this is “The Ezra Klein Show.” [MUSIC PLAYING] Something I’ve been wrestling with lately, both in my head and then, of course, on the show,…

I’m spending more than 1500 dollars/euros each year on a bunch of subscriptions for news websites and applications. They include all the usual suspects in English and French, plus some specialized publications covering business and tech. As someone who supports quality journalism, then, allow me to…

Epizone AI: Outside the Code Stack Best Thing Since Sliced Bread? Public Intelligence The Unpredicted The Self-Domesticated Ape The Handoff to Bots 50 Years of Travel Tips 101 Additional Advices Type 2 Growth Rights / Responsibilities The Scarcity of the Long-Term Hill-Making vs Hill-Climbing Future…

There’s a good chance most of the problems in your life and work come down to insufficient slack. Here’s how slack works and why you need more of it. Imagine if you, as a budding productivity enthusiast, one day gained access to a time machine and decided to take a trip back several decades to the…

The neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021. Credit...Manshen Lo By Published April 19, 2021Updated Dec. 3, 2021 Leer en español阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 Listen to This Article At first, I didn’t recognize the symptoms that we all…

April 8, 2021 Every Blogging Option Sucks Except the one that makes sense for you Every so often, I’m gripped by a compulsion to investigate my blogging approach and reassure myself that the path I’ve chosen remains the best fit for my needs. I haven’t done this in a couple of years, but now I find…

8 Min Read (Reuters) - Toyota may have pioneered the just-in-time manufacturing strategy but when it comes to chips, its decision to stockpile what have become key components in cars goes back a decad

Why the Ever Given got stuck in the Suez Canal, by @bhgreeley - who knows more about boats than should be allowed https://t.co/0eSrRsyIHw

2020-09-27 The first time I read Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood, I got to the end and promptly turned back to the first page and began to read it again. This was my introduction to Butler’s writing, and I was unprepared: for the radicalness of her perspective on human nature, and for the encounter…

Understanding where you have an edge and where you don’t can help you prevent problems, spot opportunities others miss, and rapidly learn. We all have a circle of competence – an area in which we have a lot of earned knowledge. The size of that circle is not important. What is important is knowing…

Time Blocking The image above shows my plan for a random Wednesday earlier this month. My plan was captured on a single sheet of 24 pound paper in a Black n’ Red twin wire notebook. This page is divided into two columns. In the left column, I dedicated two lines to each hour of the day and then…

Dearest Spectrumites, Today we tackle the adult meltdown. It’s an elusive beast; rare and camouflaged. Like a predator, it lurks in the shadows, waiting to pounce when its victim is least prepared. Its attack is mighty and fierce; exposing the vulnerable with lethal accuracy. It devours all in its…

Impressive and insightful quote from Barack Obama: “My emphasis on process was born of necessity. What I was quickly discovering about the presidency was that no problem that landed on my desk, foreign or domestic, had a clean, 100 percent solution. If it had, someone else down the chain of command…

Ivanka Trump was my best friend growing up. We first met when I joined her seventh-grade class at Chapin, an all-girls school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that had a reputation for attracting a blue

Column Meik Wiking, author of The Little Book of Hygge, tells us what the Danes know about converting wealth into well-being Paul Ollinger Oct 21, 2020 · 6 min read Photo illustration; Image source: A

Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from Fahad Sperinck, who is making his second appearance in the newsletter after writing a great piece on death metal and normalcy . Check out his latest below: Today

When Donald Trump came out to speak just before 2:30 A.M. on Wednesday, votes were still being counted in enough states—notably Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—to make it impossible to

Back in February (oh, those heady, pre-COVID days…) I rewarded myself for bashing through my eighth tax filing as a self-employed artist by meeting a friend for tea. She listened patiently as I ramble

As part of learning design thinking and design research in design school , we learned about the value of keeping a “beginner’s mind” or “child’s mind” (especially in the early stages of a project). Th

If, on a certain evening about sixty-­six million years ago, you had stood somewhere in North America and looked up at the sky, you would have soon made out what appeared to be a star. If you watched

This story, which reveals why it is that San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich cares so deeply about team dinners, was originally posted on April 18, 2019. "POP WANTS TO talk to you." The server is s

One of Penn Station’s 22 famous eagles being removed from the building’s one remaining facade. The statues ended up in far-flung places like the New Jersey Botanical Garden and on the roof of Cooper U

Ideas The question now is how to leverage its nature to make it maximally useful and used. April 9, 2019 Dan Cohen Vice Provost for Information Collaboration at Northeastern University Fabrizio Bensch

I’ve been intrigued by the concept of a personal retreat ever since I heard Mike Schmitz talk about it on Free Agents a while back. He described how he goes off on a “retreat” every three months to re

It’s felt impossible lately not to be distracted and despondent. I’m trying to spend as much time at my bliss station as I can. What’s a bliss station? Here’s Joseph Campbell in The Power of Myth : Yo

Benefits of a daily diary and topic journals 2019-01-28 You know those people whose lives are transformed by meditation or yoga or something like that? For me, it’s writing in my diary and journals.It

Steven Johnson Follow Jan 29, 2005 · 6 min read This week’s edition of the Times Book Review features an essay that I wrote about the research system I’ve used for the past few years: a tool for explo

The more I use PersonalBrain , the more I like it. That’s not usually the case with information management software and me. I’m usually dazzled by a new application until I get deeply into using it an

Opening keynote for dLRN 2015. Delivered October 16th @ Stanford. Actual keynote may have gone on significant tangents… 1 | a year in the garden A week or so ago, I was reading about the Oregon shooti

The Great Mental Models Volumes One and Two are out. Learn more about the project here . First-principles thinking is one of the best ways to reverse-engineer complicated problems and unleash creative

1. Mass Shootings and Terrorism You probably thought I was going to start this list off with something cute and cliche like, “Stop caring what people think about you,” right? Well, fuck that. Let’s of

Consider the daily schedule of famed novelist Haruki Murakami. When he’s working on a novel, he starts his days at 4 am and writes for five or six continuous hours. Once the writing is done, he spends