The School of Life
Frederic Edwin Church, Morning in the Tropics, 1858
2 min · · Travelling in Memory · Shared by 4, including Lali
The School of Life
Burt Glinn, Monk Raking Gravel, Kyoto, 1961
1 min · · Moments of Perfection · Shared by 35, including Lali
Brain Pickings
Resolutions for a Life Worth Living: Attainable Aspirations Inspired by Great Humans of the Past
15+ min · · Life-tested wisdom on how to live from James Baldwin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Leo Tolstoy, Seneca, Toni Morrison, Walt Whitman, Viktor Frankl, Rachel Carson, and Hannah Arendt. · Shared by 639, including Essaadi, Lali, John Paul Caponigro, Charles Duhigg, Memen Isimo
Nautilus Magazine
Plants Feel Pain and Might Even See
10 min · · In 2018, a German newspaper asked me if I would be interested in having a conversation with the philosopher Emanuele Coccia, who had… · Shared by 223, including Lali, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Howard Getson, John Hagel, Ceferino Díaz, Matt Walton R.TCMP, Botany One
Anne Helen Petersen
The Shopping Cure
8 min · · This is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen. Paid Subscribers: If you haven’t activated your invitation to Sidechannel, email me for a new one. New topics… · Shared by 53, including Aparna Nancherla, Lauren Goode, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
The Guardian
Feed your soul: the 31-day literary diet for January
11+ min · · From a Shirley Jackson short story to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 30-minute Ted talk, nourish your mind with our one-a-day selection of literary treats · Shared by 226, including Dr Nasima Riazat, Lali, Katja Evertz, Gregor B. Rosenauer
The School of Life
The Dangers of Having Too Little To Do
3 min · · For most of our lives, we’re hard at work: we’re up till midnight in the library studying for a degree, we’re learning a trade, building a business, writing a book. We have hardly a moment to… · Shared by 313, including Katja Evertz, Rich, Jason Silva, Lali, rohit, Nicholas
The Paris Review
The Fabulous Forgotten Life of Vita Sackville-West
9 min · · How preposterous is it that Vita Sackville-West, the bestselling bisexual baroness who wrote over thirty-five books, should be remembered today merely as a smoocher of Virginia Woolf? · Shared by 26, including Kiki, Jennifer Ouellette, Lali
The New Statesman
Why this crisis is a turning point in history
12+ min · · The deserted streets will fill again, and we will leave our screen-lit burrows blinking with relief. But the world will be different from how we imagined it in what we thought were normal times. This… · Shared by 142, including Christian Surchi, Faik Ersoy, Astha Upadhyaya, Bas Grasmayer, Simon Hix, Klaus Eck, Lali, Matt Goodwin
Harvard Business Review
That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief
6 min · · The coronavirus pandemic has led to a collective loss of normalcy. · Shared by 893, including Sylvia Duckworth, Michael Hyatt, Kevin Kruse, Charles Duhigg, Marsha Collier, Mathew Ingram, Dr. Laura Markham, Matt Heinz, 🌻 Laura Fitton (she/her) 🌻, Mike Allton, Dave deBronkart, Nilofer Merchant, Hrag, Rachel Botsman, Eric Holthaus, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Alex Cavoulacos, Paul Ekman, Biz Carson, Whitney Johnson
Mashable
How to stop caring what people think about you
8 min · · It's not simple. But it's part of being human. · Shared by 1115, including Liv 😷, Ceferino Díaz, venkat - bala, Liliane Ferrari ™, Bilal Aslam, Kevin Roberts, Lali, Gabrielle Mendoza, Beth Price Almeida, Seán Köhlmoos, Stephanie A Kowalski, Carly, HealthyWomen.org, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, LoriBeth
Brain Pickings
Love Lessons from a Tree
2 min · · “I think of good love as something that roots, not rots, over time, and of the hyphae that are weaving through the ground below me, reaching out through the soil in search of mergings.” · Shared by 131, including Lali, Charles Duhigg, LARRY ELKAN
Speaking Tree
Is it the ego that gets depressed?
2 min · · Is it the ego that gets depressed? - Depression can be a hidden killer because many get depressed without knowing why. It is not only circumstances which create depression. For a serene life, we... · Shared by 8, including Lali
thedailyidea.org
400+ Free Online Philosophy Resources Arranged by Topic
13+ min · · This page contains an organized collection of links and resources on a wide range of philosophical topics. Over recent years, there has been a massive increase in high-quality philosophy resources… · Shared by 164, including Dr Skye Cleary, Anita Leirfall, Scott Monty, Lali, Rich, justin caouette, Aníbal M. Astobiza, Katja Evertz, Marinel Bijmolt🤓, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Keith Frankish, Bilal Aslam, Massimo Pigliucci
Brain Pickings
13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
7 min · · More fluid reflections on keeping a solid center. · Shared by 336, including Jorge David, Tobias Kopka, Nilofer Merchant, Henneke Duistermaat, Tom Connor, Charles Duhigg, Lali, Rhys, Oscar MacDonald, Liv 😷, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon