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I have AI fatigue. Maybe you can relate. I’m not anti-AI. I use it, and I’m curious to see where it’s going. But every time I watch a video about it, my feed fills up with side hustles that will make me rich and essential skills I need so I don’t fall behind. What I…

My reMarkable Paper Pro Move is almost always within arm’s reach. If you’d told me that a year ago, I would have said probably not. I was enamored with e-ink tablets from the very beginning. I remember sitting in a coffee shop and seeing the man at the next table using one, and I pined…

A couple of weeks ago I was in my favorite local independent bookstore when a question occurred to me that I don’t think I’d ever really considered: as I near the end of my life and look back on the books I’ve read, will I be more grateful for the fiction or the nonfiction? I…

You didn’t lose your attention. It was stolen from you. I’m not usually one for definitive statements like that, but in this case I think it’s true. Johann Hari puts it this way in Stolen Focus: “You can try having self-control, but there are a thousand engineers on the other side of the screen working…

This is a 2017 12-inch MacBook. I use it nearly every day, and it is almost perfect. If you’re familiar with this laptop, you might not agree. It had a single USB-C port, it was slow and underpowered even at the time, it cost more than the MacBook Air, and people despised the keyboard. It…

If you were to live every day for the next five years like you lived yesterday, who would you be in five years? That simple question is the whole idea behind something called a rule of life. I know that’s probably not the most inviting phrase. And yet a rule of life has been deeply…

I think journaling has been the most helpful practice in my life. Those few moments every day help me make sense of how the rest of my time is spent, and help me look at how I want my time to be spent differently. Mindful living, to me, is living with an awareness of how…

I wish every person would read this book: How to Know a Person, by David Brooks. Early on, Brooks says that when you find a healthy person, you find someone who has the ability to help others feel seen. It might seem silly to have a 250-page manual on how to know a person, but…

I think self-awareness is one of the most important traits you can pursue in your life. It’s one of the initial steps toward happiness. Shawn Achor, a self-proclaimed happiness researcher, puts it this way in The Happiness Advantage: “The first goal we need to conquer—or circle we need to draw—is self-awareness. Experiments show that when…