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Buddhist Economics: How to Start Prioritizing People Over Products and Creativity Over Consumption
Buddhist Economics: How to Start Prioritizing People Over Products and Creativity Over Consumption

“Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.”

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How to Get Out of Your Own Way and Unblock the “Spiritual Electricity” of Creative Flow
How to Get Out of Your Own Way and Unblock the “Spiritual Electricity” of Creative Flow

“No matter what your age or your life path … it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.”

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How to Write Fat Books: Walter Benjamin’s Principles of the Weighty Tome
How to Write Fat Books: Walter Benjamin’s Principles of the Weighty Tome

A seven-point blueprint to the dark arts of filling pages.

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How to Get Rich: Paul Graham on Money vs. Wealth
How to Get Rich: Paul Graham on Money vs. Wealth

Debunking the pie fallacy, or why there’s more to success than giving people what they want.

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Maya Angelou’s Beautiful Letter to Her Younger Self
Maya Angelou’s Beautiful Letter to Her Younger Self

“Be courageous, but not foolhardy.”

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The Best Illustrations from 150 Years of Alice in Wonderland
The Best Illustrations from 150 Years of Alice in Wonderland

Down the rabbit hole in enchanting reimaginings.

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Against Cynicism: Isaac Asimov on the Case for Optimism about the Human Spirit
Against Cynicism: Isaac Asimov on the Case for Optimism about the Human Spirit

Why cynicism is, above all, a disservice to our own happiness.

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The Last Hotel: Patti Smith Sets Jack Kerouac to Song
The Last Hotel: Patti Smith Sets Jack Kerouac to Song

Two great talents at the intersection of reality and dream.

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The Science of Mental Time Travel and Why Our Ability to Imagine the Future Is Essential to Our Humanity
The Science of Mental Time Travel and Why Our Ability to Imagine the Future Is Essential to Our Humanity

Shedding light on “the cognitive rudder that allows our brains to navigate the river of time.”

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Whitman’s Urban Reverie: A Passionate Ode to the City from the Poet Laureate of Nature
Whitman’s Urban Reverie: A Passionate Ode to the City from the Poet Laureate of Nature

“Give me comrades and lovers by the thousand!.. Give me the streets of Manhattan!”

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