Starlight attention: Directs your longer-term projects and goals (writing a book, building a business, being a good parent).

Wallowed out — Describes something worn down, hollowed, or enlarged from repeated use, pressure, or motion. Often used to ...

Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay, a collection of Katchor’s Knipl strips, was originally published in 1991 by ...

What Am I Doing Here? is Dean’s second book, and is generally regarded as his best work. It was originally published in 1947.

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Ted Kaczynski, the convicted bomber who blew up dozens of technophilic professionals, was right about one thing: technology has its own agenda. The technium is not, as most people think, a series of ...

The Disappointing Wise Debit Card. I use Wise.com on a weekly basis for international business transactions with low fees, as do most of the people I know running online businesse ...

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This is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey the core ideas, minus out-of-date details. This ...

Many years ago I took a meandering 5,000 mile bike ride across the US, from San Francisco to New York via Idaho and Texas. I rode back roads all the way and it was a highlight of my life. But this ...

On his 68th birthday, Kevin Kelly began to write down for his young adult children some things he had learned about life that he wished he had known earlier. To his surprise, Kelly had more to say ...