Thinking
- 📺 Skepticism: Why critical thinking makes you smarter • 15 minute video by Bill Nye, Derren Brown, Michael Shermer and Lawrence Krauss about how and why to process new information critically.
Mortality
- The Time Trap of Productivity • In a culture so focused on managing time, we have become subservient to it.
Meaning
- How to Live a Meaningful Life • Play a supporting role in other peoples’ stories • Brian S. Lowery 📺
Happiness
- Happiness = letting go of control
- Unhappiness = trying to control things I can’t
- News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier | The Guardian • News is bad for you. It leads to fear and aggression. It hinders your creativity and makes you sick. We should stop consuming it, says Rolf Dobelli, who’s abstained for years 📖
- An argument for logging off • Avoid spending time consuming stressful information about things you can’t influence • Aaron Francis 📖