Relationships & Society
Quote of the day by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung: “We cannot change anything unless we…
Self-condemnation might be the one thing keeping you stuck in the patterns you're most desperate to escape.
Curiosities
J.K. Rowling’s editor at Bloomsbury told her she would never make money out of…
The editor who backed Harry Potter gave its author terrible advice—and he was almost completely right.
Relationships & Society
The Myers-Briggs test is described everywhere as being based on Carl Jung, but its two…
A personality test trusted by millions rests on shakier scientific ground than most people realize.
Technology
Four US tech giants spent roughly $410 billion on capital expenditure last year, much of…
The four tech giants betting their futures on AI are doubling down: nearly three-quarters of a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending by 2026, but the payoff remains stubbornly unclear.
Curiosities
For most of history the world’s largest economy was not in Europe or America but in the…
The West's economic dominance is surprisingly recent—a mere century of advantage after millennia of Eastern superiority.
Technology
Many people assume those who build powerful AI must grasp how it thinks, but in an…
The architects of AI's most powerful systems face a humbling limitation: they cannot fully explain their own creations' reasoning, even when they understand every line of code.
Relationships & Society
Psychology suggests memory is not a recording but a story we rebuild each time: in one…
Picture a memory you are sure of.
Relationships & Society
In 2023, two researchers whose earlier work had reached opposite conclusions about money…
For a few years I carried a tidy little fact around.
Relationships & Society
Thought of the day: a popular Stoic paraphrase often linked to Epictetus, “Wealth…
I have moved between Ireland and Southeast Asia year after year for a while now, and one thing has crept up on me quietly.
Relationships & Society
A modern paraphrase of Epictetus: It is not what happens to you, but how you react to…
The numbers do not care how hard you work.
Relationships & Society
Thought of the day, from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden: “The mass of men lead lives of…
Years ago in Dublin, I was working in finance and I did the thing you are not supposed to do at your desk.
Relationships & Society
Thought of the day by Stoic philosopher Seneca: “The wise man is self-sufficient.…
When I first arrived in Vietnam more than a decade ago, my calendar filled up fast.