A Small Library of Comfort for Anxious Times

We are not meant to manage fear alone. These resources have been my village.

Change Your Life Using Design Thinking From IDEO.

What happens when you stop trying to fix yourself—and start prototyping your life instead?

What it Means to be a Self.

Where Does the "I" of ME Live?

Octavia Butler's Method for Reaching Impossible Goals

The sci-fi legend's practice of writing from the future

This Forgotten 67-Year-Old Technique Reveals Your Blind Spots

Why You Don’t See What Shapes Your Thinking

How We Think About How We Think

A Nazi soldier, a Nobel Prize, and the map of human irrationality

The Most Important Parenting Question You've Never Been Asked

The well-meaning behavior that harms children

How To Live Holiday Guide

How to give good gifts

Why Trying to Feel Safe Never Works: Winnicott on the Fear of Breakdown

D.W. Winnicott's unsettling theory about the catastrophe you're still waiting for

Susan Sontag On Experience as the True Language of Understanding

Why Direct Experience Transcends Academic Knowledge

The Unbearable Lightness of Not Being Yourself

How I Stopped Being Myself Long Enough to Get Better

The Invention of Self-Doubt

Why Our Doubts Say More About the World Than About Us

Proust's First Selfie

The Victorian parlour game that became a cultural mirror.

Your Brain Is a Liar. Here's How One Psychiatrist Proved It.

Teaching our minds manners and etiquette.

The Self-Awareness Paradox: Why 95% of Us Are Wrong About Ourselves

You're not as self-aware as you think (and neither am I)

A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Human Experience

Discover the Wellcome Collection, London’s free museum of health, history, and imagination.

A Field Guide to Spotting Manipulation in Real Time

Crib sheet for the road

The Easiest People to Control

Why Smart, Well-Meaning Citizens Still Fall for Dangerous Leaders

Things I'm loving: 2 books, 1 artist and 1 song.

What's getting me through

On Becoming a Person

Carl Rogers on the painful gap between our true selves and performed selves

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Disliked

How Alfred Adler’s Individual Psychology Explains the Modern Self

What Survives the Years: 7 Books That Shaped My Thinking.

On Reading, Rebuilding, and the Fragility of the Self We Archive

Notes & Thoughts: The New York Times 1st Well Festival

The Feeling of the Form: On the Nature of Taste

Why this and not that?

How to Learn Anything, Really

Richard Feynman’s Timeless Strategy