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Lessons from Gaming: Random Universe
My experiences as a gamer have taught me lessons applicable to the real world (assuming it exists). One key skill for dealing with reality is the ability to model it. Roughly put, this is the ability to grasp how things work and make reasonably accurate predictions. This ability is useful: grasping how things work is…
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How to Choose an Online Therapist
Learn how to choose online therapist support with confidence. Find the right fit, check credentials, and start therapy at your own pace.
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AI Advice Is Undermining Couples
It feels great when an AI chatbot validates your side of a conflict. But it ignores the empathy and accountability relationships actually require.
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Taking a “Break” From the Aging Process
My 92-year-old friend Anne shares her brilliant plan for taking a mini-vacation from the process of aging.
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What Does Allyship Look Like Right Now?
How is allyship defined? In what ways do we need to expand which groups we include in our consideration of being an ally? How does this relate to Jewish identity?
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Against nostalgic ecology
When we think about the natural environment and how to treat it, we often assume by default that what we’re trying to do is return the nonhuman world to where it was before we started seriously messing with it. That impulse is very understandable. The world’s ecosystems functioned better, in the way that they had…
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How to De-escalate Your Heightened Emotions at Work
The workplace is a unique caldron of stress, due to long hours and the effort to maintain a persona and livelihood. These low-key mindfulness techniques help.
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What Personality Reveals About Musical Choices
Do you prefer music written in a major or a minor key? Your preference is likely linked to your own personality traits.
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Why You
A self is a story of why you are you — a selective retelling of the myriad chance events between the birth of the universe and this moment: atoms bonding one way and not another, parents bonding with one partner and not another, values binding you to one culture and not another. Against this utter…
