I wanted to be Anthony Bourdain—until I met him.

On Suicidality

Guest post by Sorbie Richner

50 Ideas That Changed My Life - David Perell

David shares 50 ideas that changed his life. Read here.

I went to the ‘existential hope’ gala and left hungry

Exploring the frontier of human flourishing with Curtis Yarvin's ex, the light of Apollo, and no booze whatsoever.

Unconventional Inspiration: The Best of Terence McKenna

The Best, 2/9/18

Not a genuine black man : my life as an outsider : [a true story] : Copeland, Brian

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Drew Houston's Commencement address

'I stopped trying to make my life perfect, and instead tried to make it interesting.'

Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours

An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.

Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir

A gripping tale of personal revolution by a man who wen…

In Depth: Miscellaneous

*this is a giant, everchanging collection of micellaneous tidbits about my life and career.* On The Moniker I had a habit as a kid of creating fictional enti...

How to be perfectly unhappy

This comic was inspired by essay from Augusten Burroughs: How to live unhappily ever after. In addition to the essay, I highly recommend reading his books. It's also been described in psychology as flow.

The Ambition Project

A guest post by Jason Brennan

A Protocol for Dying - Hintjens.com

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I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?

ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.

The Tim Ratliffe story is so fucking boring and I’ve had it.

5.3K votes, 1.1K comments. We’re now 3 episodes straight of Tim having murder/suicide fantasies, and 4 episodes straight of: “What’s wrong with you?”…