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A guide to learning effectively by overcoming ego, embracing struggle and deep focus, and using techniques like the Feynman Technique and spaced repetition to make knowledge stick rather than fade.
A narrative long-form piece examining the geopolitical and social history of borders and how they define identity.
Argues that we usually wait for failure to happen to us rather than seeking it out, even though the lessons most worth learning come from setbacks. Rosie makes the case for deliberately practising failure — running small, recoverable experiments at the edge of your ability — so that when serious setbacks arrive you've already built the emotional and cognitive equipment to navigate them.
A rewrite of Sarris's 2021 essay The Most Precious Resource Is Agency. He argues that the early lives of the great — Leonardo apprenticed to Verrocchio at 14, Walt Disney delivering papers at 11, Nabokov publishing poetry at 16, Andrew Carnegie supporting his family by 16 — all share a common feature: they were doing useful, appreciated work, not merely attending school. Today's children, locked into a 20-year inertia of pure schooling, have lost the "useful childhood" that produced reach. Includes practical recommendations for parents.
Individual thought is being swallowed by the collective roar of the digital crowd. Learn how the new 'hive mind' is rewriting the rules of human identity.
Built around Clear's senior-year college baseball memory of striking out the leadoff batter of the #3 College of Wooster after a marathon at-bat full of fouls and full-count tension. He argues it wasn't the strikeout or the eventual team win that made the moment meaningful — it was the struggle inside the pitch sequence itself. The piece generalises: for the weightlifter, author, athlete, entrepreneur, and artist alike, the reward is not the outcome but the act of showing up and battling for it.
Deep beneath a frozen lake in the Arctic silence, a glittering empire is preparing to pull a vanishing act unlike any other. For decades, these giant threaded craters have yielded 150 million carats, but in 2026, the last echoes of dynamite will fade forever. What happens when a bustling industrial city, carved into the unforgiving tundra, is scheduled to be swallowed back by the earth? The legacy of a \"hare-brained\" geologist now faces a billion-dollar cleanup, where massive voids will be drowned in water and reclaimed by ghosts. As miners like Melanie and Joe prepare for a final goodbye, the entire territory holds its breath for the economic storm following the diamonds. Witness the closing of a golden—or rather, diamond—chapter, where a town exists today, but will leave no footprint tomorrow.
A full transcript of Charlie Munger's 2005 magnum opus on cognitive bias — the talk that effectively introduced "behavioral finance" as a field — published on Farnam Street with permission from Peter Kaufman and Munger himself. Munger walks through 25 standard causes of human misjudgment, from incentive-caused bias and reciprocation tendency to social-proof, deprival-superreaction, and authority-influence, and emphasizes the "lollapalooza" effect of biases acting together. Roughly 108 minutes of reading, drawn from Poor Charlie's Almanack.
Built around Ralph Morse's famous LIFE Magazine photograph of Einstein's cluttered desk, taken hours after the physicist's death on April 18, 1955. Einstein had been working on a speech for Israel's 7th anniversary that morning and refused a final experimental surgery, saying, "I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly." Clear uses this to argue that everyone has a gift to contribute, that we should keep pouring ourselves into it until the end rather than retire on past success, and that our lives are meant for contribution, not consumption.
An excerpt from The Book of Ramallah in which Palestinian novelist and poet Maya Abu Al-Hayat portrays Ramallah as a modest hilltop city that became the de facto cultural and political center of modern Palestine. She weaves together its origin legends, its post-Oslo transformation, the daily reality of checkpoints and occupation, and its dense community of writers, poets, musicians, and arts institutions.
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