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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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A “Dynamic Interaction”: How We Learn (and Unlearn) the Language of Love
A “Dynamic Interaction”: How We Learn (and Unlearn) the Language of Love

From developmental psychology to Timothy Leary, a reframing of love as deliberate mastery rather than magical thinking.

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Elementary School Kids Record Recommendations for Their Favorite Books
Elementary School Kids Record Recommendations for Their Favorite Books

A sweet reminder of what algorithms can never give us.

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Alan Watts on the Difference Between Belief and Faith
Alan Watts on the Difference Between Belief and Faith

How to master the delicate dance of unconditional openness to the truth.

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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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Tove Jansson’s Rare Vintage Illustrations for Alice in Wonderland
Tove Jansson’s Rare Vintage Illustrations for Alice in Wonderland

Down the rabbit-hole, Moomin-style.

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The Art of Looking: How to Live with Presence, Break the Tyranny of Productivity, and Learn to See Our Everyday Wonderland
The Art of Looking: How to Live with Presence, Break the Tyranny of Productivity, and Learn to See Our Everyday Wonderland

“When you look closely at anything familiar, it transmogrifies into something unfamiliar.”

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The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on Growing Old, the Perils of Success, and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart
The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on Growing Old, the Perils of Success, and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart

“If you can fall in love again and again… if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical… you’ve got it half licked.”

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