According to his biographer, Robert Coram, John Boyd made “more contributions to fighter tactics, ...

“Pay attention!” “If you just focused more, you’d be more successful!” We’ve all ...

In advance of a series of articles we’ll be doing this year on some of the rites that have been central ...

Editor's note: As you look back on the year that has just past, do you feel as though you spent another 12 ...

The prompts below are now available in a paperback journal, for completely offline reference and ...

Earlier this week we explored the nature of ritual and posited that its current scarcity may be at the ...

This holiday season my aunt Ruth is putting together a book of remembrances about her parents, Bob and ...

Unless you regularly read this blog, you may never have heard someone use the word manliness in writing or ...

Editor's note: This is an excerpt from a commencement address author David Foster Wallace gave in 2005 to ...

  In today's episode I talk to A.J. Jacobs, editor-at-large at Esquire Magazine, writer of several ...

Awhile back I was doing a HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) workout over on a nearby running/biking ...

Do you sometimes feel like you spend all your time managing crises? That your life is basically spent ...

FOMO. It’s an acronym of recent coinage which stands for the Fear of Missing Out. The inherent ...

  In today's episode I talk to Dr. Meg Jay, a clinical psychologist and author of the Defining ...

Over the door of a building that sits close to the Stirling Castle in southern Scotland, hangs a curious ...

Awhile back I was driving through the place where I grew up – Edmond, Oklahoma – and happened to pass ...

  In today's episode I talk to Mark Frauenfelder, editor-in-chief of Make Magazine, co-founder of Boing ...

Editor's note: We've talked before about how and why to become a regular journaler/diary writer. (I like to ...

In the first post in this series we discussed the concept of the “Pyramid of Choice,” and the way in ...

Click here to see a larger version of the image. Think back to the last time you experienced a high amount ...