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Wait! I think Michael Lewis is right.
An author should be judged on whether they deliver on their promise. Contrary to what everyone else claims, Lewis did what he said he would.
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#108: Humanism and the conversation of the ages (feat. Sarah Bakewell)
The latest book from the author of At The Existentialist Café surveys seven hundred years of humanist thought.
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Americans Applying to UK PhDs: A Guide
What I wish I'd known when applying to Oxford
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Cody Kommers
Meaning is post-hoc.
If you think you can predict ahead of time what will be meaningful, then you're wrong.
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In the Land of Happiness
Bhutan has its own national theory of happiness. How cool is that?
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How to read a novel as a theory of behavior
Stories can model the one thing computation never can: experience
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Great, AI can write essays. Can we stop asking students to do useless writing assignments?
We were never that good at teaching the fundamentals of writing to begin with. This is an opportunity to rethink them.
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Bad is stronger than good
Positive emotions don’t drive the plot. Negative ones do.
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The Off-Policy Theory of Happiness
Why the metrics we use to evaluate decisions are not the ones we should use to make them.
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Meaning is not an unmitigated good
It's the things we love most which can also most hurt us.
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The Meaning Effect
Nathan Hill rebrands placebos in his novel “Wellness”
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The biggest recent improvement I've made for an increased sense of meaning
Better sleep.
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