Month: March 2021

Project alert! I’ve been in a pretty quiet place when it comes to personal projects. But I’m starting to come out of my annual March Funk and I’m feeling …

In the past, I noticed a sticky note in an admired colleague’s cubicle. It said, “Comparison is the thief of joy.” I asked her about it, and she said …

Our brains are weird. We carry a lot of evolutionary quirks that have helped us survive in the past, but now aren’t particularly useful. Anybody ever had their appendix …

I talked about ultralearning in this post, but I realized: I don’t want to do this. But that doesn’t mean that I didn’t find anything useful in the book. …

It’s no secret that I’m a scanner who likes personal projects. And if you’re anything like me, you’re curious about the people you hear about who learned five languages …

I recently finished a coursera about the science of well-being, and over the course of those weeks, I learned about a term called “miswanting”. Cognitive psychologists have found that …

Do you ever wonder if you’re working the right job? Do you dream of doing something completely different? Do you even know what that would look like? I think …

Back in 2018, Yale professor Laurie Santos offered a new course about how to be happy and the science of well-being. I remember when this hit the news and …

And now for news from Berlin! Every month, I’m reporting on what we’ve been up to, both to preserve my own memories and also to keep in touch with …