Review of Summa Technologiae by Stanislaw Lem "Intelligence carries conscious beings to a point where their theories are no longer useful to them, where hard-won objectivity drowns in a glut of complexity […] So creative work displaces analysis, and science becomes performative and playful."

Review of ‘Permanent Present Tense’ by Suzanne Corkin “He showed that declarative memory – the storage and retrieval of facts – was dependent on the hippocampus. Non-declarative memory – ‘knowing how’, rather than ‘knowing that’ – functioned independently of the temporal lobe structures he had lost.”

The Rise and Fall of Charm in American Men “In short, Grant suddenly and fully developed charm, a quality that is tantalizing because it simultaneously demands detachment and engagement. Only the self-aware can have charm: It’s bound up with a sensibility that at best approaches wisdom, or at least worldliness, and at worst goes well […]

How Art Can Lead To God by Rod Dreher The American Conservative » Rod Dreher

Why Our World Started in 1979 by Dalibor Rohac The Ümlaut | The Ümlaut

607 – That Monkey Don’t Swim: Maps, Sex and Violence by Frank Jacobs Strange Maps | Big Think

“Nice guys finish last.” Really? What does the research say? by Eric Barker Barking Up The Wrong Tree

The value of the "locker room guy" for your startup by Chris Adventures in Capitalism

Loneliness and Suicide ‘The problem is that as it’s grown easier to be remarkable and unusual, it’s arguably grown harder to be ordinary. To be the kind of person who doesn’t want to write his own life script, or invent her own idiosyncratic career path. To enjoy the stability and comfort of inherited obligations and […]

How to Find Fulfilling Work “We have entered a new age of fulfillment, in which the great dream is to trade up from money to meaning.” –Roman Krznaric