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A few years ago, I was determined to start a meditation practice. I set a recurring morning reminder. I downloaded an app. But each time my…

Peter’s alarm went off at 6:30 a.m. He was already wide awake. He’d been staring at the ceiling for what felt like hours, his mouth dry and…

What does it mean to “own” something? Merriam-Webster puts it like this: “Belonging to oneself or itself,” or “to have power or mastery…

Back in his Y Combinator days, Sam Altman wrote a blog post about what he called “the post YC slump.” At the end of the accelerator’s…

If you’ve had the chance to travel to Paris, you likely paid a visit to the Louvre Museum, home to Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic painting, the…

On a recent trip overseas, my wife and I found ourselves with three small children and no in-flight entertainment. We were more stressed…

The American artist Edward Hopper painted many windows. In one of his paintings, which gained renewed notoriety during the pandemic, a…

When I have a big decision to make, I often think about one of the most famous American poems: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. But not…

In a letter to his fiancée Felice Bauer, Franz Kafka once wrote, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the…

Imagine you’re a doctor performing critical surgery on a patient who’s just been in a terrible car accident. There’s internal bleeding…