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Life & Meaning
Work, mortality, ambition, and what a life is supposed to add up to.
44 essays
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Alexey Guzey · 2023
lifehacks
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9 min
Michael Nielsen · 2022
Notes on Effective Altruism
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52 min
Kurt Armstrong · 2022
Repair and Remain
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15 min
Agnes Callard · 2021
Breaking Points
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12 min
Craig Mod · 2021
The Life of One Den
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37 min
Oliver Burkeman · 2021
Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket
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6 min
Simon Sarris · 2021
The Most Precious Resource is Agency
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9 min
Conor Barnes · 2020
100 Tips for a Better Life
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Milan Cvitkovic · 2020
Things you're allowed to do
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14 min
Tyler Cowen · 2018
The high-return activity of raising others' aspirations
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26 min
Autotranslucence · 2018
Becoming a Magician
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14 min
Tim Urban · 2018
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You)
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1h 43m
Zadie Smith · 2018
Joy
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Wilfred M. McClay · 2017
The Strange Persistence of Guilt
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Mihir A. Desai · 2017
The Trouble with Optionality
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6 min
Aella · 2017
How I Lost My Faith
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11 min
Tulika Bahadur · 2016
Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
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13 min
Patrick O'Shaughnessy · 2016
Growth Without Goals
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Tim Urban · 2015
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The Tail End
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7 min
Alison Gopnik · 2015
How an 18th-Century Philosopher Helped Solve My Midlife Crisis
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41 min
Sam Altman · 2015
The days are long but the decades are short
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8 min
Roger Angell · 2014
This Old Man
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32 min
Friday Night Meatballs: How to Change Your Life With Pasta
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17 min
James Somers · 2012
The best general advice on earth
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2 min
Atul Gawande · 2011
Personal Best
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51 min
William Deresiewicz · 2010
Solitude and Leadership
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38 min
Paul Graham · 2008
Cities and Ambition
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23 min
Nick Bostrom · 2008
Letter from Utopia
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18 min
Michael Chabon · 2006
The Future Will Have to Wait
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13 min
Matthew B. Crawford · 2006
Shop Class As Soulcraft
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50 min
David Foster Wallace · 2005
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This Is Water
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25 min
Anna Quindlen · 2000
Anna Quindlen's Commencement Address at Villanova
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9 min
Gwern Branwen · 2000
On Having Enough Socks
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1h 27m
John Gardner · 1994
The Road to Self-Renewal
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James Carse · 1986
Finite and Infinite Games
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Richard Hamming · 1986
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You and Your Research
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53 min
Bob Black · 1985
The Abolition of Work
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42 min
Thomas Nagel · 1979
The Fragmentation of Value
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1h 50m
Mikkel Aaland · 1978
Sweat Bathing and the Body
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25 min
Richard Feynman · 1966
Do not remain nameless to yourself
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5 min
Joan Didion · 1961
On Self-Respect
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12 min
C.S. Lewis · 1944
The Inner Ring
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Bertrand Russell · 1932
In Praise of Idleness
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32 min
Nat Friedman
Some things I believe
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3 min
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