Manoj Surya
Loneliness – [How to identify and deal with it]
Stats show people are becoming more and lonelier. Loneliness can bring you closer to death than your drinking friends, obese …
LifeLife
What's life? Across our curated articles and stories, you'll find a 21st Century perspective on topics such as life lessons, creativity, mindfulness, self-improvement, and much more.
Bennett Notes
People Who Are Obsessed With Success and Prestige
What does it look like to be obsessed with success and prestige? It probably looks a lot like me at the moment. A guy who …
LifeDerek Sivers
Time is personal. Your year changes when your life changes.
A new day begins when I wake up, not at midnight. Midnight means nothing to me. It’s not a turning point. Nothing …
LifeThe New Yorker
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.
LifeThe Guardian
The big idea: should we be thinking about luck differently?
We tend to focus on good or bad fortune, successes and failures. But what about the fact you’re here at all?
LifeHarvard Business Review
We're Still Lonely at Work
Many aspects of modern life contribute to loneliness, including cultural, economic, demographic, and technological factors …
Life WorkThe Guardian
Europe beats the US for walkable, livable cities, study shows
Cities such as Zurich and Dublin found to have key services accessible within 15 minutes for more than 95% of residents.
Life TravelCBC
Cities are overheating. How do we cool them down?
It’s possible to plan for heat in cities, with more trees, better windows and even daylighting streams.
LifeThe Wall Street Journal
Gen Z-ers Are Computer Whizzes. Just Don't Ask Them to Type.
The ‘digital natives’ baffle teachers and parents with their lack of typing skills.
LifeJerry Liu
Use Your Potions and Scrolls
In fact, it’s far more important in life that you use the resources available to you, because you’re on a clock. …
LifeWired
People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities—Until They Live in One
Removing cars from urban areas means lower carbon emissions, less air pollution, and fewer road traffic accidents. So why are …
LifeNess Labs
Rediscovering Ikigai: What We Got Wrong and How to Find Meaning in Life
One unique Japanese concept is the idea of ikigai, which can be roughly translated to reason for being (or “raison …
LifeThe Wall Street Journal
What Gen Z Will Lose if They Don't Have Friendships at Work
As more young people work remotely, they aren’t forming close relationships with colleagues. That will have a profound …
Life Remote WorkThe Atlantic
Overwhelmed? Just Say 'No.'
The science of how to stop saying yes to everything—and be happier.
LifeThe Guardian
My experiment in phonelessness was a failure. It also changed my life
Constant connectivity is a new expectation, exhausting to meet. My worst fear about turning my phone off has been missing a …
LifeCNBC
Why can't today's young adults leave the nest? Blame high housing costs
Nearly one-third, or 31%, of Gen Z are living with their parents because they can’t afford to buy or rent their own …
LifeLars Yencken
The fresh start effect
People have been doing New Years Resolutions forever. You’re more likely to run a marathon at a milestone age like 30, …
LifeCraig Mod
The Walk and Talk: Everything We Know
A walk-and-talk is a moveable salon. A small group of people walk together for a week, having casual conversations …
LifeWillem's Blog
Hello, stranger
While enjoying my fresh wok lunch in Amsterdam, I noticed something odd: other folks coming in for something to eat ignored …
LifeIs there anywhere in the world someone can just live for free?
I’m thinking back to the early-American homesteading days when a man could venture into uncharted territory and make a …
LifeThe Guardian
'People are happier in a walkable neighborhood': the US community that banned cars
A new housing development outside Phoenix is looking towards European cities for inspiration and shutting out the cars. So …
LifeTravel + Leisure
It's Cheaper to Live on a Boat Than Rent an Apartment in These U.S. Cities
Maybe it’s time for your own personal floating oasis.
LifeThe New Yorker
Why Walking Helps Us Think
Since at least the time of peripatetic Greek philosophers, many other writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection …
LifeThe Economist
The U-bend of life
Why, beyond middle age, people get happier as they get older.
LifeSasha Chapin
In praise of blowing up your life
Most people are tremendously resistant to change, capable of coming up with countless ingenious stories about why something …
LifeHacker News
Where have you found community outside of work?
Asking for myself and those who are looking for what good communities often provide: feeling of connection, purpose, a place …
LifeVox
How companies sell you on the promise of "community"
American life is hostile to community building, but we’re more desperate for it than ever.
LifeEL PAÍS
How the American Dream convinces people loneliness is normal
American lore is full of tales of the lone cowboy, the rugged individualist who will do what needs to be done. But, in …
LifeNPR
Would you live next to co-workers for the right price? This company is betting yes
So a growing number of employers around the country have decided to build their own housing for workers, mostly for them to …
Life WorkHere & Now
You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard
According to Franco, the key to building a community of friends is setting up planned interactions, like regular group events …
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