How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World argues that you can live the life you want without changing the world or even changing a single other person — you just have to stop falling into the mental ...

I’m a globally minded Dutchie who developed a passion for culture after having lived in Spain, Kenya, Ecuador, the ...

This Orkin report for 2026 lays out the U.S. cities with the most bedbug reports and Chicago tops the list for the sixth year in a row. Ohio is a bad state overall and other cities ranking highly were ...

In January 2019 I wrote out scores of prompts for thinking long term that I felt should inform the foundation I was later co-chair of, The Long Now Foundation. These axioms were only shared internally ...

For a cleaner, more permanent solution, consider heat-shrink grip tubing. Slide it over the handle, warm it with a heat gun, ...

A QUIRKY ODE TO THE MANY STRUCTURES WE LIVE IN ACROSS THE WORLD. Home by Carson Ellis Candlewick 2015, 40 pages, 10.2 x 12.1 ...

Tips for philanthropy. For some people “Giving Money Away Can Be Harder Than Making It” so Roy Bahat, someone whose lifelong habit has been to give money away, has written up ...

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Patterns in Nature by Philip Ball University of Chicago Press 2016, 288 pages, 8.5 x 10 x 1.1 inches ...

Retired after a varied career of programming, writing, and teaching, I live now in British Columbia and have the daily joy of ...

Six years ago I celebrated my 68th birthday by gifting my children 68 bits of advice I wished I had gotten when I was their age. Every birthday after that I added more bits of advice for them until I ...

Two years ago I caught someone trying to steal my car. They were doing it in a way that would not set off my alarm. That prompted me to do a bunch of research about the current state of the art of ...