Good genes are nice, but joy is better
...When scientists began tracking the health of 268 Harvard sophomores in 1938 during the Great Depression, they hoped the longitudinal study would reveal clues to leading healthy and happy lives...
What is First Principles Thinking?
...If you know the first principles of something, you can build the rest of your knowledge around them to produce something new...
Hire managers of one
...A manager of one is someone who comes up with their own goals and executes them. They don’t need heavy direction...
Recommended Book: Decisive
...10/10/10, we think about our decisions on three different time frames: How will we feel about it 10 minutes from now? How about 10 months from now? How about 10 years from now?...
Beyond the checkbox mindset
...You can always switch back later...
Lasagna Soup
..This family friendly recipe takes just 25 minutes...
9 fun ways to increase your agency with zero grinding required
...you know you can have fun too right?!...
This Is How To Avoid Being Scammed: 8 Secrets From Experts
...I don’t need to tell you that you shouldn’t send $500 to someone claiming to be a stranded astronaut trying to get back to Earth...
Thought Experiment: How Einstein Solved Difficult Problems
...Mastering thought experiments can help you confront difficult questions and anticipate (and prevent) problems...
10 questions to answer before you die
...Most people don’t plan for death. Here are the most important questions to answer and things to do now—so your people don’t suffer later...
Between Two Trailers - Recommended Book
...I lost those formative years of discovering who I really was, of knowing where my home was. It sent me on an incessant quest of looking for myself—for home—in all the wrong places...
11 behaviours punished in school -- but rewarded in adulthood.
...I left the education system. But the education system did not leave me...
Air Fryer Breakfast Frittata
...This air fryer breakfast frittata is easy to make using a cake pan that fits in the air fryer basket...
The other backpacks
...Even after days on the trail, they probably couldn’t tell you a thing about anyone else’s backpack...
The Periodic Table of Cognition
...Most of the discoveries about what electricity could do happened without the knowledge of how they worked....
Too Busy to Pay Attention
...What if we knew when our time would end? What if there were no cause and effect to our actions? What if there was no past? No future?...
The Optimization Sinkhole
...What if there's no such thing as the perfect coffee maker?...
On the Edge - Recommended Book
...I’m going to make a bold, daring generalization here. For the most part—at least when it comes to financial and career decisions—people do not undertake enough risk...
Your Spending Habits Are All in Your Head
...Consumers do some complicated mental accounting when allocating money, and researchers are mapping it...
One-Pot Beef Ramen Noodles
...This 30-minute meal is packed with savory flavor...
