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When my local cinema rescreened Aftersun this week, I experienced things I’ve never seen a movie do. After the final scene, the entire theater remained silent. Nobody moved. Slowly, you could hear people crying, sniffing, wiping their tears. Even when…
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5 Big Ideas From ‘To Paradise’ by Hanya Yanagihara
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When Hanya Yanagihara published A Little Life in 2015, she caused a literary earthquake. The book dealt with depression, trauma, and pain in a very explicit way, making it one of the most controversial texts of the past decade. It…
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Relearning How to Read in the Age of Algorithms
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It’s strange writing this out, but lately, I feel like I’ve lost my ability to read. Long-form texts are particularly challenging for me. Sentences are incredibly hard to get through. And don’t even get me started on chapters. Chapters have…
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The Myth of the Loneliness Epidemic
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in LonelinessOn May 1, 2023, I woke up to a news headline I’d been yearning to see for years: We Have Become a Lonely Nation. It’s Time to Fix That. It was a guest article by the US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy in the New York Times. In…
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How a Book on Negative Thinking Made Me 20% Happier
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There’s one passage from The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman that has been a more potent wake-up call for my happiness than blasting trumpets, buckets of icy water, and a double espresso shot combined. It goes like this: The startling conclusion…
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Loneliness Isn’t Your Fault: How Genes and Modernity Make Us Lonely
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in LonelinessI’m so stupid. It’s all my fault. How could I let this happen to me? My thoughts spun like a carousel as I walked along an empty beach, somewhere in the North of Portugal. Waves crashed into the shore like relentless…
“Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don’t. Who knows, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who doesn’t have to.”
Alan Watts