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The island nation feels like it could be paradise—but it's a paradise isolated from everyone and everything you care about.
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Our mental wellbeing, equanimity, and ability to make sense of the world would all benefit from cultivating better historical memory
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For our trip to New Zealand, I had bought the nice tickets. Unfortunately, everything went egregiously wrong
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Everyone should be so lucky to know a Dani Rojas
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My one and only letter to other parents
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Meaning, purpose, and how we choose what to work on
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The choices to make are about lifestyle and values—not money
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Obviously digital nomadism is lonely—but the problem actually cuts deeper.
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How a career in activism soured me on "raising the salience" of climate issues
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For all that was horrible, I remember the middle of the pandemic quite fondly
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Ways of life and returning from Mexico
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Hunter S. Thompson’s 1958 letter to his friend Hume is one of the best distillations of advice on life and career I’ve ever read.
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