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When we study the aggregate of human history, we find no shortage of accomplishment to celebrate. Perhaps the most astonishing feat we can ever witness, though, is any one person conquering grief.
Just 50 years after the invention of the internet, we may have crested the peak of the Information Age, and toppled headfirst into an era where digital tech resembles a parasite more than a tool. Digital minimalism holds the key to getting the tech to work for you again—and not the other way around.
In the years since I went on my first, big international trip as an adult, I’ve thought a lot about what defines American culture. In particular, I’ve spent a ton of time wondering why our lifestyle expectations seem to differ vastly from many of our global neighbors’. I came up with self-determination as the fundamental…
Despite being drenched in menacing darkness and cold for half of its calendar year, Denmark earns an unexpected annual accolade: It’s one of the happiest nations in the world. And oddly enough, it might be attributable to a concept we all know and love, without even knowing it: hygge.
If you’ve ever had a burst of blistering joy in your life, you’ll know it’s aftereffect: intense, bittersweet yearning, like wishing you could capture the feeling in a bottle. Your twenties will be teeming with it. Marked by a newfound sense of ownership over your life, you’ll start a quest of chasing those pockets of…
The elephant finally plopped onto my chest when I was on the brink of 22. To be honest, I should have seen it coming; I had always been a nervous kid. It just didn’t seem like cause for concern at the time. From the outside, I was just a touch more vulnerable to self-consciousness and…
