Culture & Society

  • 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.

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  • 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…

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  • How to Hygge

    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.

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  • 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…

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