Most people treat a wandering mind like a defect. They see it as a leak in their productivity bucket. We’ve been conditioned to believe that if we aren’t staring at a screen or checking off a to-do…

«“The mind’s wandering is a source of creative ideas… The problem is not that our minds wander; it’s that they wander away from what matters.”»

While LooksMaxxing often headlines the news, the idea of BrainMaxxing deserves real attention. Growing your mind never goes out of style.

“By far, the greatest danger of AI is that people conclude too early that they understand it” — Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI researcher AI is everywhere today, and there are many exciting claims about what…

Anne Lamott and Neal Allen join us to discuss why embracing constraints can be the best way to find freedom in the craft.

Caregiving is a form of leadership training for vital skills that machines can’t replicate.

Higher productivity drives increases in wealth, wages, and living standards. AI could be just what we need to solve many of today’s problems.

Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience shed light on friendship formation. Evidence suggests physical proximity and brain synchronization play a role.

“It takes a special energy, over and above one’s creative potential, a special audacity or subversiveness, to strike out in a new direction once one is settled.”

«“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”»

I met Willow at a loom on a farm one late-summer day. She was amused that I thought she looked like Mary Shelley, in whose world I’d been immersed for seven years while writing Traversal. Nei…

A new study shows that improving your cardiovascular endurance changes your neural chemistry. Fitter individuals release larger amounts of a restorative protein after a single workout, which helps the…

There are two ways relationships can work. Either you carefully track the balance of your contributions, making sure no one owes anyone anything. Or you allow ongoing imbalance, trusting that…

«Market logic is for strangers. Gift logic is for everyone who matters. The confusion between them destroys relationships that should thrive.»

Charles Darwin suspected that humans and animals share similar aesthetic tastes. A new citizen science experiment supports this hypothesis, showing that people strongly prefer the exact same acoustic…

Despite media narratives about "P(doom)" and robotic takeovers, a new study reveals that the general public is actually quite optimistic about artificial intelligence and its potential impact on…

When American author Edward Bellamy published his utopian novel Looking Backward: 2000 – 1887 in 1888, he didn’t know that it would be one of the best-selling books of the era; that it would inspire a…

«One of the fundamental ways we misperceive the world is by believing that the ways things are is the way they have to be; that the world as it is today reflects the natural order of things.»

“Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It depends how you think about time. It depends what you think a seed does, if it’s tossed into fertile soil.”

From the beaches of Galápagos to the forests of Cameroon.

Product reformulations are common in the food industry, and they can be done well, or poorly. Who remembers Doritos with olestra?

The 2026 Sony World Photography Awards have announced the finalists and shortlist of the Professional Competition, highlighting powerful image series from photographers around the world.

In 1994—when a young Jeff Bezos started Amazon, and Yahoo! went live, and Netscape launched the first commercial browser for the World Wide Web—a friend of Ryan Schreiber’s introduced him to the In…

The 2026 Sony World Photography Awards have announced the finalists and shortlist of the Professional Competition, highlighting powerful image series from photographers around the world.