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Articles on Being Good, on Being Great
Flow is the Opiate of the Mediocre: Advice on Getting Better from an Accomplished Piano Player Strategy #4: Create…
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Work Habits at Apple – Ole Begemann
Melton: Oh, Christ! Yeah, exactly, I couldn’t do that. I had to do something right away. I said in…
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Defensive Pessimism
I often describe myself as an optimistic pessimist; I guess it’s really defensive pessimism at work. But still, I…
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How To Think
most people won’t tell teenage girls especially the together, articulate ones that they are lazy and the quality of…
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the secret to happiness
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The Great Discontent: Merlin Mann
The fact is that most of us are wandering around, scared shitless, wondering what the fuck’s going to happen…
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The 40-Year Slump
What has vanished over the past 40 years isn’t just Americans’ rising incomes. It’s their sense of control over…
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The magic of Madison County | Iowa Now – The University of Iowa
With its friendly people, rolling scenery, and covered bridges etched with history, I can’t help but recommend a day…
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Money, Happiness and the New Science of Smarter Spending | New Republic
Experiences can have a much bigger impact on people’s happiness than things, and a big part of that happiness…
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Unwelcome tasks and burdens
…Town notables, as town autonomy vanished, found they had become subordinate implements of the imperial bureaucracy, and the life…