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Collection · 3 posts
Career
Managing people, warehouse software, and the work that starts after the sale.
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Collection · 6 posts
Staying Alive
How to take care of the one body you get: muscle, the heart, food, sleep, and the rest, plus how long a human can really live. The actionable science, with the hype stripped off.
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Collection · 11 posts
The Inner Life
Meaning, the mind, and how to bear a life: Frankl, the spirituality of imperfection, and the truth about every kind of meditation.
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Collection · 11 posts
The Sacred Books
The books billions live by, opened on their own terms: the ideas that hold each one together, original-language context where it changes the meaning, and honest notes on translation.
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The Book With No Blood Test
A field guide to the DSM, psychiatry's catalog of about three hundred disorders, not one of which can be proven by a test. A tour of the labels, the conditions medicine can prove cold instead, and how sure you should be that a diagnosis is you.