life

103 posts

1. Culling vs. Surrender July 17, 2018
2. A Complete Guide to Getting What You Want July 12, 2018
3. We’re Building the Ship as We Sail It March 22, 2018
4. When to Share January 22, 2018
5. If you grew up somewhere else... January 18, 2018
6. If you’re 30% through life, you’re likely 90% through your best relationships December 29, 2015
7. I see life as like being attacked by a bear July 14, 2015
8. Carolyn Hax: A friend with seemingly everything still has time for fine whine May 14, 2015
9. The Cold Stoicism of Advice Columns for Men August 5, 2014
10. When you’re younger, you need to say yes to everything July 11, 2014
11. I hate the phrase about women “wanting to have it all” July 2, 2014
12. This column will change your life: stop being busy April 21, 2014
13. Frank Chimero – This One'€™s for Me March 12, 2014
14. Life is a game. This is your strategy guide February 23, 2014
15. Angry Robot: Not about online photo storage really February 22, 2014
16. Learning to Measure Time in Love and Loss January 20, 2014
17. Alright, gotta get this out of my system November 3, 2013
18. There has never been so much future in my life as at that time August 20, 2013
19. Deserve’s got nothing to do with it August 18, 2013
20. Each of us is born with a series of built-in confusions August 2, 2013
21. Heroism is often some seriously boring stuff July 22, 2013
22. Memento mori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia June 3, 2013
23. Wherever a process of life communicates an eagerness May 22, 2013
24. No Country for Old Men (2007) - “I feel overmatched” May 6, 2013
25. Life Lessons with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar May 2, 2013
26. Take the hard feelings away, and this is the right thing to do April 7, 2013
27. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy April 1, 2013
28. Our unlived lives are often more important than our lived ones February 28, 2013
29. Favorite improvements of 2012 January 8, 2013
30. Get out of the conceptual rut of what a good life looks like November 15, 2012
31. Festina lente - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia November 5, 2012
32. Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart July 15, 2012
33. Life is an extended dialogue with your future self June 25, 2012
34. Age and experience will slowly whittle away at your dreams June 20, 2012
35. The Service Patch - NYTimes.com June 17, 2012
36. The question arose as to what we would do differently if we were immortal May 22, 2012
37. 10 Things Your Commencement Speaker Won't Tell You April 29, 2012
38. Los Angeles Review of Books - Life Is Short; Art Is Shorter April 18, 2012
39. The Top Idea in Your Mind April 12, 2012
40. How Do You Make Life-Changing Decisions? | RyanHoliday.net April 3, 2012
41. The point isn’t to achieve everything February 6, 2012
42. Hypomnema - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia November 14, 2011
43. Man's Search for Meaning October 21, 2011
44. Passion Buys What It Craves with Its Life September 12, 2011
45. Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day… August 29, 2011
46. Whatever moral rules you have deliberately proposed to yourself, abide by them… August 22, 2011
47. On the Problem of Form - Wassily Kandinsky July 26, 2011
48. You don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate July 9, 2011
49. You can tell if it’s your own plan by how lost you feel June 27, 2011
50. I Was on the Streets for More Than Half of My Life June 26, 2011
51. Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check… June 21, 2011
52. Heaven knows! June 7, 2011
53. No, no, there is no going back June 2, 2011
54. Look back in memory and consider when you ever had a fixed plan, how few days… June 1, 2011
55. This is all the life there is May 23, 2011
56. I take [my work] less seriously than anybody May 23, 2011
57. stevenberlinjohnson.com: Go West, Middle-Aged Man May 22, 2011
58. We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it April 29, 2011
59. THE NEW YORKER: Barry Michels’s & Phil Stutz’ Therapy Drawings April 21, 2011
60. A man who lives among immortal blessings is not like to a mortal being April 8, 2011
61. 40 Things I Learned in My First 40 Years - Bryan Caplan | EconLog April 8, 2011
62. People just wait for you to grow up and do the right thing April 1, 2011
63. Regrets of the Typical American March 28, 2011
64. Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Rulin’s, 1942 March 8, 2011
65. When I was younger I developed what I called the Baseball Theory of life March 2, 2011
66. Sydney Smith’s Prescriptions for Low Spirits February 25, 2011
67. Abandon resolutions. Stop looking for a soulmate. Reject positive thinking | Science | The Guardian January 15, 2011
68. Besides, I am destined to perish, definitively, and only some instant… January 15, 2011
69. Besides, I am destined to perish, definitively, and only some instant… January 15, 2011
70. Life gets a lot easier when you give up being outwardly sad about anything January 6, 2011
71. Life gets a lot easier when you give up being outwardly sad about anything January 6, 2011
72. I bet we all in this room live about the same November 21, 2010
73. Hang around people who are better than you all the time November 17, 2010
74. After us they’ll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps… October 4, 2010
75. Adam Phillips on the happiness myth | Books | The Guardian September 6, 2010
76. Happy endings in life, and in fiction too perhaps, are really about where you… September 6, 2010
77. Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium… September 2, 2010
78. “You Want a Social Life, With Friends” by Kenneth Koch August 26, 2010
79. The Summoned Self - David Brooks - NYTimes.com August 4, 2010
80. This is the Question, Charles Darwin writes at the top of the page July 31, 2010
81. How Will You Measure Your Life? - Harvard Business Review July 28, 2010
82. Family, Friends, Health, Work: Pick Any Three July 22, 2010
83. College and the Art of Life - David Salesin, Convocation Address, 28 September 2003 May 4, 2010
84. Seth's blog: Optimal Daily Experience May 4, 2010
85. The life I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment for the balance… April 14, 2010
86. My Year Of Everything: My Year Of Everything Q&A: With Kevin Murphy, Author of "A Year At The Movies" March 23, 2010
87. Wehr in the World: The best uses of my time March 17, 2010
88. Work hard, play hardly « Variations on normal by Dominic Wilcox February 25, 2010
89. Satisfaction is a product not of where you are, but of where you’re going January 22, 2010
90. The relative relativity of material and experiential purchases January 9, 2010
91. Marginal Revolution: Advice for your children: 2010-2020 January 4, 2010
92. The War on Mediocrity - Heuristic roundup '09 December 10, 2009
93. In Nicaragua December 9, 2009
94. A book needn’t be an author’s life work; a squib of novel insight… November 23, 2009
95. Manhood for Amateurs (review: 4/5) November 12, 2009
96. Birdhouse for Your Soul November 5, 2009
97. Men Want to Be Good and Want to Be Loved July 4, 2009
98. Will Smith: The Keys to Life = Running & Reading July 4, 2009
99. LIFE: Atlanta In Springtime June 8, 2009
100. This nice appreciation of Susan Boyle reminded me of the hip vs earnest bit… April 23, 2009
101. This past weekend I did the 40-mile hike I'd been pondering for a while April 23, 2009
102. How the city hurts your brain January 12, 2009
103. Baseball is poetic May 24, 2008