9 Best Articles in 2022
Tim Urban
The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1
Tim Urban
20+ min read · From 2017 · Part 1 of 2: "The Road to Superintelligence". Artificial Intelligence — the topic everyone in the world should be talking about.
Guardian Tech
The meaning of life in a world without work
Guardian Tech
20+ min read · From 2017 · As technology renders jobs obsolete, what will keep us busy? Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari examines ‘the useless class’ and a new quest for purpose
Brain Pickings
Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives
Brain Pickings
~13 min read · From 2015 · How to fine-tune the internal monologue that scores every aspect of our lives, from leadership to love.
New York Magazine
Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours
New York Magazine
20+ min read · From 2016 · An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.
Vox
It’s hard to be a moral person. Technology is making it harder.
Vox
~16 min read · 2021-08-03 · Digital distractions such as social media and smartphones wreak havoc on our attention spans. Could they also be making us less ethical?
The New Yorker
The Man Who Thought Too Fast
The New Yorker
5 min read · 2020-04-27 · Frank Ramsey—a philosopher, economist, and mathematician—was one of the greatest minds of the last century. Have we caught up with him yet?
Guardian Books
Stoicism in a time of pandemic: how Marcus Aurelius can help
Guardian Books
4 min read · 2020-04-25 · The Meditations, by a Roman emperor who died in a plague named after him, has much to say about how to face fear, pain, anxiety and loss
VICE
What Happens When Modern Society Rebrands an Ancient Philosophy?
VICE
20+ min read · 2021-06-29 · Everyone from Silicon Valley billionaires to self-help enthusiasts is repurposing Stoicism for our modern age, with results that are good, bad, and highly indifferent.
The Atlantic
A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked
The Atlantic
9 min read · From 2019 · For decades, a landmark brain study fed speculation about whether we control our own actions. It seems to have made a classic mistake.
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Resolutions for a Life Worth Living: Attainable Aspirations Inspired by Great Humans of the Past
themarginalian.org
~15 min read · Jan 2nd · 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.
The School of Life
The Meaning of Life
The School of Life
Jan 14th · To wonder too openly, or intensely, about the meaning of life sounds like a peculiar, ill-fated and unintentionally comedic pastime. It isn’t anything an ordinary mortal should be doing – or would get…
Existential Comics
Nietzsche Returns
Existential Comics
Jan 10th · A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
Aeon+Psyche
What public philosophy is, and why we need it more than ever
Aeon+Psyche
7 min read · Jan 18th · Public philosophy aims to improve critical thinking so that we gain a better understanding of the world and of ourselves
Noema Magazine
How To Develop A Planetary Consciousness
Noema Magazine
~12 min read · Jan 11th · Democracy itself will have to be reinvented in the age of planetary crises, the philosopher Achille Mbembe argues. We need a new generation of rights that do not depend on the nation-state.
Guardian Tech
‘Virtual reality is genuine reality’ so embrace it, says US philosopher
Guardian Tech
3 min read · Jan 17th · In his book Reality+ David Chalmers says the material world may lose its allure as VR technology advances
kottke.org
Jon Hamm Narrates Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Updated for the Timeline Era
kottke.org
1 min read · Jan 18th · In Plato's allegory of the cave (part of his The Republic), the reader/listener is asked to imagine people trapped in a cave who
The New Yorker
A Philosophy Course Taught by Your Favorite 2021 Memes
The New Yorker
1 min read · 2021-12-31 · Lawyer Cat teaches you about nihilism, and the Ever Given cargo ship discusses Marx.
