What You Do Matters

We can use our human legacy as storytellers to help ourselves find meaning and purpose.

What Not Reading a Great Book Taught Me About Giving and Receiving

“Now I just notice how gifts given need to be received or they are not gifts at all. Both giving and receiving require a whole heart.”

The Problem with Self-Help Culture

At its worst, self-help culture feeds on shame to create repeat customers.

Black-And-White Thinking

How to use data reduction, a technique from psychology, to drill down to what’s essentially true about what causes and relieves stress in your life.

I Ask Google To Avoid The Harder Work Of Asking Myself

Trusting our intuition can be a difficult, vulnerable experience. So sometimes we avoid that work by looking for an outside authority to tell us what’s right.