Down With Pseudo-Productivity: Why We Need to Transform the Way We Work
The last several years have seen the rise of a sort of anti-productivity movement. Knowledge workers who feel burned out and that work is pointless, meaningless, and grinding, have been talking more a...
6 Maalis 20241h
The 5 Factors for Crafting Simple (Read: Effective!) Messages
Whether you’re a teacher, parent, or entrepreneur, you want to be able to persuade your students, children, and customers with your messages. That’s a tall task in the modern age, when people are bomb...
4 Maalis 202449min
The Misconceptions of HIIT (And the Role It Can Play in Your Fitness Routine)
You've probably heard of HIIT — high intensity interval training. In fact, you may feel so familiar with the idea that you think you understand it. But do you?People often hold some popular misconcept...
28 Helmi 202449min
The Making of a Stoic Emperor
Perhaps you've read Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, a book many turn to to learn and internalize the teachings of Stoic philosophy. But what do you know of the man who penned that seminal text?Here to h...
26 Helmi 202451min
The Secrets of Supercommunicators
Have you ever known one of those people who seemed to be able to connect with anyone? The kind of person who had the ability to make others feel understood and smoothly navigate even the trickiest of ...
21 Helmi 202444min
7 Journaling Techniques That Can Change Your Life
In my twenties and early thirties, I was a regular journaler. Several years ago, however, I stopped journaling almost entirely because I wasn’t getting anything out of it anymore. But my guest has hel...
19 Helmi 202449min
Busting the Myths of Marriage — Why Getting Hitched Still Matters
The marriage rate has come down 65% since 1970. There are multiple factors behind this decrease, but one of them is what we might call the poor branding that surrounds marriage in the modern day. From...
14 Helmi 202448min
Chasing Shackleton — Re-creating the World’s Greatest Journey of Survival
If you’ve ever read the classic book Endurance, you probably shivered and shuddered as you wondered what it would have been like to have undertaken Ernest Shackleton’s famously arduous Antarctic rescu...
12 Helmi 202445min
