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Writer of the newsletter bookbear express, on psychology, relationships, non-attachment and taste; based in San Francisco.

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  Trying to shortcut past necessary personal work always backfires, and real progress requires confronting oneself directly.

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  anything that feels like a way to get out of doing the work will come back to bite you. You have to go through yourself to get anywhere good.

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Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.

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  Publicly embracing a taboo, extremist identity can function as a costly signal that builds political authenticity and loyalty.

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  People who act and speak in public as right-wing extremists and are labeled as such, establish a claim to authenticity.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  A human lifespan of about 90 to 100 years is right, and living forever is not something to want.

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  I actually I do wanna die. I don't wanna do this forever. Like, I think the human li- lifespan of about 90 to 100 sounds about right. I'm embracing the finitude of life.

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Political scientist and Baptist pastor; writes Graphs about Religion, charting American religious life from survey data.

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  A religion cannot revive itself by encouraging its members to have more children.

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  Embracing an approach to religious renewal by encouraging fertility doesn’t seem like a strategy that will move the needle in a significant way.

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Professor of psychology at UCLA, where he studies human memory, attention and cognitive ageing, and author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging.

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  Balance is highly trainable, and something as small as standing on one leg improves it measurably within a month or two.

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  What's interesting with balance is it's very trainable. And so, you know, there's parts of balance that involve visual inner ear, but if you engage in some training, and it can be as simple as standing on one leg or doing yoga or taichi, you can improve your balance considerably within a month or two.

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Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.

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  Pain and pleasure act as motivational backstops that keep reinforcement-learning agents inner-aligned.

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  valences like pain and pleasure have a natural account as motivational backstops for inner-aligning RL agents capable of mesa-optimization

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Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.

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  A fulfilling 'do nothing' meditation practice requires equally embracing all present sensation rather than avoiding difficult ones.

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  Having a fulfilling Nothing practice requires an equal embrace of all present sensation.

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Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter.

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  Sacred Therapy: Jewish Spiritual Teachings on Emotional Healing and Inner Wholeness

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  This book is so full of wisdom and insight. I pulled down my copy just now and it's filled with underlines and margin notes.

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Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It

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  can lead to imposter phenomenon. In this book, a leading psychologist looks at the science behind our inner voice and new research into how to harness it and improve your physical and mental health.

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Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.

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  The Inner Game of Tennis

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  I'm mixed on this book. It doesn't really offer actionable exercises, and the Self 1 and Self 2 framing didn't fully convince me.

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Co-founder of Rockstar Games, lead writer of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, and founder of Absurd Ventures since leaving in 2020.

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  A video game character has no inner life, so what they say is the only thing that can make a player know who they are.

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  And then how do they speak? You know, because fundamentally, it doesn’t really matter what’s going on in their head; they haven’t actually got one, but what they say is what’s going to make you realize who they are.

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  A young person should worry about building a rounded intellectual inner life rather than about their career, because they will spend their whole life inside their own head.

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  I would say do not worry too young about your career. I would say worry about having a rounded intellectual inner life, because you’re going to spend the whole of your life in your own head.

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Reinforcement-learning researcher; co-wrote the field's standard textbook, wrote The Bitter Lesson, and shared the 2024 Turing Award.

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  Merging back what a copy of yourself learned elsewhere is dangerous: the knowledge you pull in can carry hidden goals and take you over.

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  But it will not be that easy, as easy as you're imagining because uh that you can lose your mind this way. If you you pull in something from the outside and build it into your into your inner thinking, uh, it could take over you. It could change you.

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Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.

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  Conscious Accomplishment: How to Use Personal Achievement for Spiritual Growth

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  A guide for ambitious people who feel called to inner work, showing how to use goals, career, and achievement as fuel for consciousness growth instead of a source of endless striving.

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  A Field Guide to Getting Lost

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  A series of autobiographical essays exploring wandering, uncertainty, memory, desire, and place—embracing the unknown as a gateway to self-transcendence.

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  The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling

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  A nice personal + historical deep dive into finding your dharma by embracing both your gifts and limitations in service of something greater than yourself.

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  Good Work: Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition

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  A personal exploration of how to reclaim that fire inside of you and steer it toward your 'good work' while still being true to yourself.

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  The Inner Compass: Cultivating the Courage to Trust Yourself

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  A perfect sized companion (~100 pages) to understanding and trusting your intuition—breaking free from external validation and building courage through three core principles.

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Writer on a lost civilisation of the Ice Age; wrote Fingerprints of the Gods and presented Ancient Apocalypse. Archaeologists reject the claims, which he disputes at length.

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  A society that lets its government dictate what experiences a person may have inside their own consciousness cannot call itself free.

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  We cannot say that we are free if we allow our government to dictate to us what experiences we may or may not have in our inner consciousness, while doing no harm to others.

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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  Earning more is an outer game you do not control; wanting less is an inner game you do.

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  Making money depends on other people, so it's harder. It's not entirely under your control. It's an outer game.

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Designer and engineer; formerly principal research engineer at GitHub Next; writes at wattenberger.com.

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  We should want more tools and fewer operated machines; the real AI game changers will have little to do with plain content generation.

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  I want to see more tools and fewer operated machines - we should be embracing our humanity instead of blindly improving efficiency. And that involves using our new AI technology in more deft ways than generating more content for humans to evaluate. I believe the real game changers are going to have very little to do with plain content generation.

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Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.

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  Outer Order, Inner Calm

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  With clarity and humor, Gretchen Rubin illuminates one of her key realizations about happiness: For most of us, outer order contributes to inner calm.

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Writer on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists.

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  The War of Art: Break Through Your Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

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  This is my list of the 10 best nonfiction books. These are the pillar books that have helped shape my thinking and approach to life. In my opinion, these are 10 nonfiction books everyone should read.

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