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Instead of your Life's Purpose (2021)

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Requiem for a Great Cat

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A life of splendid uselessness is a life well lived

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Show HN: Debate Devil – AI debating practice app

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How to Swim Against the Stream: On Diogenes

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The Scandal of Financial Nihilism

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Midlife: A Philosophical Guide

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Life is not short

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Remaining Ambitious

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Zettelkasten, linking your thinking, and Nick Milo's search for ground

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Cancelled by his college

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Kropotkin's 'The Conquest of Bread'

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The case against crisis-mongering

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Getting over Gold: Athletes and Mental Health

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Towards a more Elvish vision for Technology

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How to Think about Pleasure

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Laws of Fun (2009)

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Graphic Designers Have Always Loved Minimalism. But at What Cost?

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Teaching Machiavelli through his letters

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Let there be more biographies of failures

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Encountering Thomas Sowell

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Why is the deathbed perspective considered so valuable?

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Wikipedia frequently-encountered sources, color-coded by perceived reliability

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Letting Go of Nostalgia Urbanism

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John Gray: 'What can we learn from cats? Don't live in an imagined future'

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You're enlightened – now what?

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To be creative, Chinese philosophy teaches us to abandon ‘originality’

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Thomas Sowell interview

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Minimalism conceals the messy realities of society

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The Myth of Self-Reliance: An encounter with Emerson’s essays

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What people get wrong about Bertrand Russell

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What Nihilism Is Not

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The Tyranny of Trendy Ideas in Academia

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On Oliver Sacks and His Obsession with Weightlifting

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Stoicism's Appeal to the Rich and Powerful

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Letter to an Aspiring Doctor

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Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress

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A new book about Nietzsche: tethering philosophy to the mess of daily experience

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On Loneliness and Solitude

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Our brain is a storyteller, not a reporter from an inner world

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How to read Plato (1995)

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Passé présomptif: on Vercingetorix

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Has there been progress in philosophy?

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Switching Off: Joseph Brodsky and the moral responsibility to be useless

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Idle Hands Are the Dreamer's Tools

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Don’t Do for Money What Others Do for Love

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Review of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now

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How Schopenhauer’s thought can illuminate a midlife crisis

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I Was a Bank Robber Until I Read Kant

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Philosophy Needs a New Definition

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The Things We Carry

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The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective

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An introduction to Stoic philosophy and resilience-building [video]

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Author of ‘Sapiens’ on how meditation made him a better historian

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Bruce Lee’s Letters to Himself About Authenticity, Personal Development

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A No-Nonsense Machiavelli

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Meaningness

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Why Haters Hate: Kierkegaard Explains the Psychology of Trolling in 1847

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Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose (1958)

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A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning

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Marie Kondo and the Ruthless War on Stuff

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When Are You Really an Adult?

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Getting to “Philosophy”

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How David Hume Helped Solve My Midlife Crisis

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy shows a higher-quality internet is possible

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Nietzsche on Solitude

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The Greatest Good: What is the best charitable cause in the world?

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David Foster Wallace's Kenyon Commencement Speech (2005)

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What Do We Want, Really?

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An age-old question

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The Roots of Midlife Crisis

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Kissing Your Socks Goodbye

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The self-made man

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Elites embrace “do what you love” mantra. But it devalues work & hurts workers

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That Misery Called Meditation

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See Randomness

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Some Heroes

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The Inner Ring (1944)

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Bill Watterson Commencement Speech (1990)

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Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957)

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Ways of Seeing: Nicholson Baker learns to draw

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Disappointment

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To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees (2009)

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Paper Trails

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A Man Who Thought Too Fast (2020)

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I wag, therefore I am: the philosophy of dogs

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If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention

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