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Adobe Stock / Big Think I was really taken with this question because I’ve experienced the same thing, but in reverse. I asked my dad three years ago to write an autobiography — an in-house thing for Thomsons to read down the generations. He took to the idea and took to writing. A week later,…

Set FIRE to the rainy day fund. Photo from Reuters/Tim Wimborne. The promised land, in personal finance, is early retirement. Most of us would be lucky to reach it by age 60. And yet there are soft…

Psychologist Paul Bloom on the importance of suffering, the shortcomings of hedonism, and why he would never plug into the Matrix. Can we live a good life without suffering?

Cristina Spanò for Vox On a recent Monday, my son didn’t want to go to school. The straps of his bicycle helmet were too loose, or possibly too tight, and because he is 4, this was a catastrophe th…

Elon Musk thinks you don’t exist. But it’s nothing personal: he thinks he doesn’t exist either. At least, not in the normal sense of existing. Instead we are just immaterial software constructs run…

Are you exhausted from rushing through life doing the same monotonous things over and over again? Perhaps those things that were once meaningful now seem vacuous, and the passion has burned out. Do…