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Bonus Coaching Calls: Small Commitment to Create Action in Your Life

By Leo Babauta I’m a big proponent of a small effort that creates a big amount of change. A big part of my Zen Habits journey (and teachings) over the years is discovering and sharing small things that make a huge difference in our lives. In my Fearless Living Academy , I share small practices that help people create transformative change. I ask people to make a small time commitment each day, but really commit themselves to it. If you can do that, you’ll see huge change. This month, I’m offering 2 bonus 20-minute coaching calls to new members who sign up for Fearless Living Academy , as a way

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Finding Steadiness When the Ground Feels Shaky

By Leo Babauta These days, the world (and our lives) can feel out of control — alarming news, a wild political situation, global warming and economic markets all in turmoil. When things feel this shaky and out of control, our emotions can spiral and it throws our lives into chaos. What can we do? The practice I’m going to share with you today is how to find internal steadiness, when everything around you is unsteady. The practice is to focus on attending to our internal state. To find calm and peace no matter what’s happening externally. Let’s dive into it! Focusing on What We Can Control We c

Zen Habits · EN

The Practice of Doing Less, On Purpose

By Leo Babauta These days, a lot of people I talk to are feeling burnout — exhaustion from endless work that can often feel pointless, overloaded lives with not enough restorative rest, constant replying to messages and overwhelmed by information, drained by social media scrolling, and inundated with stressful world news. If you’re feeling this, I’m going to share a skill that sounds simple, but can be deceptively difficult: doing less, on purpose. What I’m talking about is doing less as a deliberate practice, not because of a failure to keep up. We’re making a deliberate choice to do less, no

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Staying Grounded Without Checking Out

By Leo Babauta A lot of people right now are feeling exhaustion from the news, the economy, politics, wars, the AI frenzy … it’s a lot to deal with. People tend to have two responses to feeling like the world is too much: Being over-engaged : Feeling anxious about the world, you can get hooked on following the latest news, doomscrolling through social media and other feeds, and spinning in your head about it all; or Disengaging : It feels like too much, and so you check out. You don’t follow any of the news, you don’t check social media (or only the entertaining parts), you don’t get involved.

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Get Support When You’re Stuck in Your Life

By Leo Babauta Most people I know are unwilling to ask for help when they’re stuck, because it’s a bit embarrassing. That’s understandable. But we all get stuck sometimes — we want to get out of a rut, we want to change our lives, we have all the best intentions. And somehow we struggle to make it stick. When this happens, people will often blame themselves, get discouraged, and let the failure become a part of how they see themselves. I encourage you to try something different: get some support. What do I mean by support? In my Fearless Living Academy , we’re offering two free 20-minute coach

Zen Habits · EN

How to Be Mentally Flexible

By Leo Babauta A flexible approach to life is far more valuable than most people realize. Our minds can become too rigid. We want to be right, we want to do things a certain way, we want things to go the way we want them to go. This can lead to a whole host of difficulties we’re causing ourselves with this rigidity: Becoming frustrated all the time Getting into unnecessary arguments with people, trying to prove we’re right Not being able to receive feedback, because of defensiveness Disappointment and discouragement when things aren’t going the way we’d hoped Stress when we’re feeling behind S

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The Joy of Falling Behind

By Leo Babauta A lot of people right now are feeling like they just can’t keep up with everything — it’s just too much. And it feels like the pace of everything we have to keep up with is accelerating. There’s more and more, and it’s coming at us faster and faster. Technology is like fuel to the fire: more never-ending feeds, and quick replies to messages and emails means there’s too much to reply to. What if we simply refused to try to keep up with it all? What if we rejected the premise that we need to keep up? It’s an impossible game, and we don’t have to play it. Here’s a new game: feel jo

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Those new service sector jobs?

A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for conspiring to stage armed robberies so that the purported victims could apply for U.S. immigration visas reserved for crime victims. From 2022 to 2024, PARTH NAYI organized and participated in hundreds of staged armed robberies at coffee shops, restaurants, liquor stores, and gas […] The post Those new service sector jobs? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

Marginal Revolution · EN

What are the Worst MR Posts?

What are the worst MR posts, most illogical, poorly reasoned, low value, inconsistent? From the Archives, written by ChatGPT: These are provisional candidates for weak reasoning, selected because there is a specific gap between the evidence and the conclusion. This is not an objective ranking of all 40,326 posts in the downloaded archive. Poor reasoning […] The post What are the Worst MR Posts? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

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Sunday assorted links

1. Jakob Davidsen, The Individual and the Entire Tissue (song cycle). It is good. 2. The Oilers Entertainment Group pushed prices too high and here is what happened. 3. The “endless cruise” has ended. 4. Should driverless vehicles replace school buses? 5. Art Nouveau and more in Mexico City. 6. How are potential mathematicians responding […] The post Sunday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

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As predicted, the ACA exchanges seem not to be stable

The average price of health insurance in the Obamacare marketplaces will rise by 13 percent next year, according to an analysis on Friday by KFF, the health research group. The Trump administration on Friday published new prices for 2027 in 30 states with markets managed by the federal government. Using that data and state figures, […] The post As predicted, the ACA exchanges seem not to be stable appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

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Should you feel grief for the dead who go to heaven?

I am not myself religious, but let us consider the possible gulf between behavior and doctrine amongst those who are. It has long struck me as a kind of mini-puzzle why people feel so much grief for the departed, at least for the departed who are supposed to be headed for heaven (and yes there […] The post Should you feel grief for the dead who go to heaven? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

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Expensive Pharmaceuticals for Targeted Diseases

My latest paper, The Price of a Cure: Luxturna and the Economic Dilemmas of Precision Medicine, is in the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics. I discuss the economics of the pharmaceutical industry and the special issues that arise with targeted drugs that cure. We are going to get many more of these drugs in […] The post Expensive Pharmaceuticals for Targeted Diseases appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

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Monday assorted links

1. Why is it now so common to be asked about your food allergies? (GPT Pro answer) 2. Training for alignment, applies principal-agent theory. 3. Do people offload empathy when they think AI can give it instead? 4. The Wallace line. 5. AI can draw blueprints now. 6. Ed Glaeser review of the new book […] The post Monday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

Marginal Revolution · EN

*Fjord* and *Fatherland*

Both of these movies I found worth watching. Fjord won the Golden Prize at Cannes, and it concerns the rights of the family vs. the rights of the state, when it comes to raising children. As I interpreted the story, it was so right-wing and so based I am shocked it won. It is by […] The post *Fjord* and *Fatherland* appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

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Roblox CEO David Baszucki: How to Make Better Decisions by Fixing Yourself First

David Baszucki is the co-founder and CEO of Roblox, a platform built around a simple idea: give people the tools and incentives to create together. In this short conversation, he shares how a health decision saved his son’s life and how it changed how he eats, why bureaucracy compounds unless you actively destroy it, monitoring … The post Roblox CEO David Baszucki: How to Make Better Decisions by Fixing Yourself First appeared first on Farnam Street .

Farnam Street · EN

Steve Jobs in Exile

We all know the Steve Jobs who came back in the late 1990s and saved Apple from becoming a footnote. And we’ve all heard the story of how, in 1985, he was pushed out of the company he’d created. What we don’t know is what happened in between. Geoffrey Cain spent years reconstructing the decade … The post Steve Jobs in Exile appeared first on Farnam Street .

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Tobi Lütke: AI Agents, Better Decisions, and the Future of Work

Shopify founder and CEO Tobi Lütke joins Shane Parrish to discuss AI agents, better decision-making, and the future of work. He explains how he uses an AI council to examine his hardest decisions and why taste, judgment, and responsibility become more valuable as AI becomes more capable. They go inside Shopify’s work with River, an … The post Tobi Lütke: AI Agents, Better Decisions, and the Future of Work appeared first on Farnam Street .

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Bill Ackman: The Biggest Fight of His Life

Bill Ackman is the founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, one of the most closely watched investment firms in the world. In this conversation, he breaks down the difference between real innovation and hype, how he invests, and his plan to build a modern-day Berkshire Hathaway. But more importantly, Bill shows another side … The post Bill Ackman: The Biggest Fight of His Life appeared first on Farnam Street .

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[Outliers] Charlie Munger’s Interview with Todd Combs

I’m excited to share this previously unreleased 2022 conversation between Charlie Munger and Todd Combs. As with any Munger talk, the subjects are both deep and wide. You’ll learn how Munger recognized people worth betting on, chose problems worth solving, and turned a long attention span into an unfair advantage. A special thank you to the Singleton … The post [Outliers] Charlie Munger’s Interview with Todd Combs appeared first on Farnam Street .

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Ryan Serhant: How to Get People to Say Yes

Ryan Serhant is a real estate broker, founder of SERHANT., and star of Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New York and Netflix’s Owning Manhattan. He explains how to sell without making people feel sold to: build a connection, help first, and earn the right to ask. He also breaks down the psychology of attention and persuasion, … The post Ryan Serhant: How to Get People to Say Yes appeared first on Farnam Street .

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The Science of Doing Your Best Work | Steven Kotler

Steven Kotler is a bestselling author and the executive director of the Flow Research Collective, where he studies the science of peak performance. Most of us have felt it. Hours disappear, everything else fades away, and the work seems to do itself. But what’s actually happening in those moments, and can you make them happen … The post The Science of Doing Your Best Work | Steven Kotler appeared first on Farnam Street .

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[Outliers] K.C. Irving: Competing with Giants

K.C. Irving refused to be stopped. When a railway raised his shipping costs, he bought a ship. When oil suppliers tried to squeeze him, he built a refinery. When a plant went on strike, he pulled up to the picket line, took off his coat, and challenged the much larger union boss to a fight. … The post [Outliers] K.C. Irving: Competing with Giants appeared first on Farnam Street .

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The Big and the Small

I have a surprise for you. The post The Big and the Small appeared first on Wait But Why .

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