True class and financial wealth have almost no correlation
If you spend any time watching people with very different amounts of money move through the same social spaces, you stop believing the script most of us were given.
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The rise of the generalist: why breadth is becoming the real competitive advantage in an AI-driven economy
According to the World Economic Forum, 39% of core skills will change by 2030. Nearly half of what employers value today will be outdated within a few years.
Why adults without close friends aren't antisocial — childhood taught them vulnerability equals pain
From the outside, adults without close friends often look self-sufficient, comfortable alone, perhaps even admirably independent.
High intelligence doesn't protect against bad decisions - it makes people better at constructing convincing justifications for the bad decisions they were already going to make
Here's a finding that stopped me cold: a 2012 study out of Yale found that people with the highest science literacy weren't the most aligned on contested facts.
Research links 1960s–70s childhood independence to stronger self-regulation — and modern parenting may be undoing it
Children who grew up in the 1960s and 70s typically left the house in the morning, came back when the streetlights came on, and figured things out in between.
Trump's spiritual advisers see Iran strikes as biblical prophecy — and they have institutional power
The Trump administration convened nearly two dozen evangelical leaders for private counsel in the wake of its strikes on Iran, according to an investigation by The Intercept.
People who often research self-improvement but rarely start may not be lazy — they may have confused the feeling of learning with the feeling of changing
I have a confession.
The reason some people become wiser as they age while others become more rigid has little to do with intelligence. It depends on whether they ever learned to sit with discomfort
One has this quiet depth to them.
I’ve noticed that the moment I stop trying to impress someone is the exact moment they start leaning in and asking real questions — like people can smell performance from a mile away even if they may struggle to name what feels off
I've noticed this for years but only recently had language for it.
I’m 37 and I’ve learned the hard way that few people are coming to save you, few people are keeping score, and the life you’re waiting for permission to start is already passing by
I'm 37. I run multiple websites read by tens of millions of people, I wrote a book about Buddhism, I built something that didn't exist when I started, and I still catch myself, more often than I'd like to admit, waiting.
I’m 37 and I realized last year that I’ve been measuring my worth by how useful I am to people — and I genuinely don’t know who I am when few people need me
I figured this out on a Tuesday.
Research suggests happier people keep fewer friends — not from antisocial tendencies but from refusing to tolerate draining relationships
A packed social life is often treated as a marker of a well-lived one.