9 Best Articles in 2021
Tim Urban
The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1
Tim Urban
20+ min read · 1420 saves · 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 · 764 saves · 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 · 704 saves · 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 · 650 saves · 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.
The New Yorker
The Man Who Thought Too Fast
The New Yorker
5 min read · 579 saves · 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 · 525 saves · 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
The Atlantic
A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked
The Atlantic
9 min read · 512 saves · 2019-09-10 · For decades, a landmark brain study fed speculation about whether we control our own actions. It seems to have made a classic mistake.
Ness Labs
Sophrosyne: the art of mindful moderation
Ness Labs
3 min read · 479 saves · Feb 9th · Sophrosyne is a combination of moderation, self-control, and temperance. This ancient virtue can act as a guide to better manage our emotions.
The Guardian
How technology disrupted the truth
The Guardian
20+ min read · 460 saves · From 2016 · Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism
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The School of Life
Why Stoicism Continues to Matter
The School of Life
8 min read · 211 saves · Mar 18th · Stoicism is a philosophical school born in Ancient Greece and later dominant in Ancient Rome which continues to have urgent things to teach us about calm, resilience and emotional stability. Arguably…
Aeon+Psyche
What Arthur Schopenhauer learned about genius at the asylum
Aeon+Psyche
7 min read · 180 saves · Mar 31st · ‘Might not madness be a mere derangement of memory?’ What Arthur Schopenhauer learnt when he went into the asylum
Aeon+Psyche
To find the truth, we must establish the meaning of falsehood
Aeon+Psyche
6 min read · 176 saves · Mar 30th · In the early stages of Western philosophy, falsehood – not truth – was a dominant concern. Why does a ‘mistaking mind’ matter?
Farnam Street
John Stuart Mill’s Philosophy of Equality
Farnam Street
10 min read · 151 saves · Mar 22nd · Sometimes in the debates about how to improve equality in our society, the reason why we should desire equality gets lost. In his classic text The Subjection of Women, John Stuart Mill explains why…
Five Books
The Best Books on Moral Philosophy | Five Books Expert Recommendations
Five Books
7 min read · 135 saves · Apr 6th · The questions of moral philosophy are not always best answered by philosophy books, says leading moral philosopher, Jonathan Glover.
Aeon+Psyche
Wilfrid Sellars, sensory experience and the ‘Myth of the Given’
Aeon+Psyche
6 min read · 93 saves · Mar 17th · How do sensory experiences become meaningful? On the philosopher Wilfrid Sellars and his idea of the ‘Myth of the Given’
Aeon+Psyche
‘What’s essential is, I must understand’: a rare candid interview with Hannah Arendt
Aeon+Psyche
2 min read · 82 saves · Mar 30th · Beyond ‘Banality’ – a rare interview with Hannah Arendt from 1964 captures her making as an intellectual giant
Scientific American
Confirmed! We Live in a Simulation
Scientific American
9 min read · 78 saves · Apr 1st · We must never doubt Elon Musk again
Ryan Holiday
This Is the Test to Apply to Everything
Ryan Holiday
3 min read · 65 saves · Apr 1st · We can imagine he was a busy man, perhaps the busiest man in the world. He had 14 children. There was a pandemic. He had a nagging stomach ailment. He was taking philosophy classes. Oh, and he was the…
