Is Most A Priori Philosophy a Waste?
A priori philosophy falls flat without empirical data. Australian philosopher Kim Sterelny explains why.
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Do Left-Handers Have More Sleep Problems Than Right-Handers?
Research has tracked how handedness shapes your sleep and energy. Here is what the data shows.
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Against the Cartesian Myth of Work/Life Balance: André Gregory’s Extraordinary Letter to Richard Avedon about the Nature of Creativity
Half a millennium into our recovery from the civilizational wound Descartes inflicted by severing the body and the mind, we are bleeding with a Cartesian cleft of our own making — the damaging divide between life and work. The notion of a “workaholic,” often worn as a badge on the lapel of the modern ego,…
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The Stoic Key to Living with Presence: Seneca on Time Spent vs. Saved vs. Wasted
“Lay hold of to-day’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow’s. While we are postponing, life speeds by. Nothing… is ours, except time.” “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” Annie Dillard wrote in her abiding insistence on choosing presence over productivity. But how…
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The Coziest Place on the Moon: Or, How to Bear Your Loneliness
On July 26, 2022, as I was living through a period of acute loneliness despite being a naturally solitary person, NASA reported that computer modeling of data from its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) had revealed several cylindrical pits on the Moon with just the right shape to be shaded just the right amount to offer…
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Why Leaders Need People Who Don’t Report to Them
Leadership can be surprisingly lonely. Sustainable leaders need trusted relationships where they can think out loud without also having to be the boss.
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PowerBars and Other Signs the Empty Nest Is Coming
Personal Perspective: When my kids leave for college, everything will be OK. I know it will. I think it will. I hope.
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The Self-Aware Sports Parent
Youth sports can bring out the best—and the stress—in kids and parents. Learn what belongs to you, what belongs to them, and how to help kids know they are more than their sport.
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Can We Really Learn to Slow Down Time?
Our brains filter reality through our senses, beliefs, and expectations. With attention, training, and meditation, we can change what we perceive, including our sense of time.
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On Losing a Parent
We spend our lives mastering the art of losing. Our necessary losses shape us; the unnecessary, senseless, devastating losses bend our shape to test our breaking point. We can lose people to life — to conflict, to confusion, to the consequences of their trauma — losses painful precisely because it could be otherwise. We can…