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It’s a tough job to manage a household. Things need to be regularly fixed, maintained, and cleaned. How do you stay on top of these tasks in order to keep your home in tip-top shape? My guest knows his way all around this issue and has some field-tested, insider advice to offer. Charles MacPherson spent […]

Recently we’ve been planning a spring break trip and looking ahead to possibly traveling a bit in the summer. As we’ve thought about possible destinations, trip lengths, activities, and accommodations, the question of budget keeps naturally arising.  What’s a responsible amount to spend on travel and vacation, and what isn’t? Is there a rule of […]

The last several years have seen the rise of a sort of anti-productivity movement. Knowledge workers who feel burned out and that work is pointless, meaningless, and grinding, have been talking more about opting out, “quiet quitting,” and doing nothing. My guest would argue that, in fact, productivity itself isn’t the problem and that most […]

Whether you’re a teacher, parent, or entrepreneur, you want to be able to persuade your students, children, and customers with your messages. That’s a tall task in the modern age, when people are bombarded with 13 hours of media a day. How do you cut through all that noise to make sure you’re heard? My […]

Boomerangs aren't as intuitive as throwing a baseball or football. With a few fundamentals, though, you'll master the technique in no time. Continue reading

Fitness Trackers Find New Symptom of Depression — Body Temperature. Researchers using data from the Oura Ring fitness tracker to see if it could detect early symptoms of COVID-19 (it could), made another unexpected finding: a link between body temperature and depression. On days when people’s body temperature was higher, they reported more depressive symptoms. […]

Everyone has the general sense that people these days get out of the house and do less face-to-face socializing than they used to. The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson recently dove into the data available from the American Time Use Survey to figure out just how large this decline has been. The answer? Very, very large. American men are doing a […]

Perhaps you’ve read Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, a book many turn to to learn and internalize the teachings of Stoic philosophy. But what do you know of the man who penned that seminal text? Here to help us get to know the philosopher and ruler is Donald Robertson, a cognitive-behavior psychotherapist and the author of Marcus […]

Have you ever noticed that people often get weirder as they get older? They go a little crazy; they fall apart; they come to seem increasingly “off.” Mental illnesses worsen. Depression deepens. Addictions harden. It isn’t just issues that rise to the clinical level that emerge; what were once mere quirks in someone’s youth intensify […]

The marriage rate has come down 65% since 1970. There are multiple factors behind this decrease, but one of them is what we might call the poor branding that surrounds marriage in the modern day. From all corners of our culture and from both ends of the ideological spectrum come messages that marriage is an […]