Your body wants to be fat. Mine does too. And I’m not just talking about our tendency toward late-night snacking or grabbing an extra scoop of ice cream. We are biologically hardwired to put on weight. Like they say in the programming world: it’s a...

Much like James Nestor, I rarely gave much thought to how I breathed. I mean, it’s pretty obvious that failing to breathe is, you know, bad—considering it has a 100% mortality rate. But breathing isn’t something we typically have to consciously think about. While we can...

Here are the books I read in the month of January - the Read Receipts. This month featured 3 non fiction titles and one fantastic story!...

At some point last year, I read Oliver Burkeman’s productivity book, 4000 Weeks. It was, perhaps, both the most helpful and least helpful productivity book I’ve ever read. Let me explain. The title, 4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, hints at Burkeman’s central idea: time—and humans—are...

James by Percival Everett isn’t a ghost story, but it has a similar effect, forcing you to see a well-known tale from a different perspective....

In his Letters to Lucilius, Roman playwright and philosopher Seneca wrote: “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” That hits home. Seneca isn’t dismissing or denying the reality of suffering in the world. Instead, he’s pointing out a familiar human habit: imagining the worst, and in...

We think we want life to be fair but we really don’t. What we really want is an easy comfortable life - one free from pain and drama. We assume we want a fair life because that would mean we would achieve those things. But...

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