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Where I’ve been.
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Appreciative Inquiry
It’s just as important to recognize what’s going well as what could be better.
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The best worst year.
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The year of the flood.
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Free Will
Far from being essential to our humanity, the belief in free will holds us back from being more humane and pragmatic.
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The Stories In Our Heads
Much of life is acting out the stories in our heads about who we are and what we’re doing. Changing the stories can in some ways change our lives.
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It’s easy to start things, much harder to sustain them.
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Black Panther
A morally nuanced action film for our time.
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Deep Work
The ability to sustain deep focus on our most important work is growing rarer at the same time it’s becoming more essential.
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Letters to a Young Chef
Lessons from a master chef on the business and craft of cooking.
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And one.
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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Cooking made us human, and continues to remind us of what that means.
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The New Jim Crow
Institutional racism depends more on indifference than outright hostility.
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Politics and the English Language
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
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Superintelligence
Artificial superintelligence poses the greatest threat to our species, a threat we had better start addressing soon if we're to have any hope of addressing it at all.
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On two birthdays.
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Man’s Search for Meaning
Meaning is found not in what we expect from the world, but what the world expects from us.
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It’s Okay to Be Here
How mindfulness finally clicked for me.
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Ancillary Justice
Can there ever be a just empire?
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The Moral Foundations of Violence
Violence does not stem from a psychopathic lack of morality. Quite the reverse: it comes from the exercise of perceived moral rights and obligations.