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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 · 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 · 12 posts
How to Think, and What's Real
How to think and what is real, from Plato and Aristotle to Darwin and Deutsch, each argument walked one move at a time, the dissenters kept in.
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Collection · 11 posts
The Sacred Books
The ten books billions live by, each in its own language against the great English translations, with the keystones broken down where the translators split.
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Collection · 7 posts
Power, Story, and Love
The human dramas: the Art of War on winning without fighting, the Odyssey on getting home, with power, story, and love still to come.
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Collection · 3 posts
Career
Managing people, warehouse software, and the work that starts after the sale.
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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.