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How David Hume Helped Me Solve My Midlife Crisis

By Alison Gopnik (The Atlantic) · Jun 8, 2026 · 1 min read

UC Berkeley developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik's October 2015 cover-magazine essay. At 50, "falling apart" through divorce, depression, and the unraveling of her sense of self, she turns to Hume's argument that the self is just "a bundle of perceptions" — and traces the still-debated possibility that Hume encountered this idea via Jesuit missionary networks at the Royal College of La Flèche, which had links through Charles François Dolu to Buddhist sources in Siam. The essay is at once intellectual history, personal memoir, and a quiet argument that the Eastern-roots-of-Western-Enlightenment story isn't as Eurocentric as we tell it. Note: Atlantic blocked direct fetching; this summary is built from Gopnik's own bibliography, the Wikidata entry, and multiple secondary sources.

Book Summary Personal Development

Review: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

By Book Club Chat (bookclubchat.com) · Jul 23, 2026 · 1 min read

"The Correspondent" by Virginia Evans is a poignant epistolary novel centered on Sybil Van Antwerp, a seventy-three-year-old retired lawyer who communicates with the world primarily through written letters. Spanning a decade, the narrative unfolds through her correspondence with friends, family, famous authors, and unsent notes to a mysterious figure from her past. As her vision fails, Sybil is forced to reckon with old griefs, strained family dynamics, and a slowly unwinding life.

Health Personal Development Psychology

How to Grow from Your Pain

By Mark Manson (markmanson.net) · Jun 7, 2026 · 1 min read

Manson argues that traumatic experiences happen to virtually everyone — there's nothing fun about them, but there is a path through them that is also a path forward. He distinguishes acute trauma (single events) from chronic trauma (sustained over time), explains why "positive thinking" alone usually makes things worse, and outlines what genuine post-traumatic growth looks like: integrating the experience into a more honest, less defended sense of self rather than getting over it or wearing it as identity.

Personal Development Philosophy Science

Entropy: Why Life Always Seems to Get More Complicated

By James Clear (JamesClear.com) · Jul 20, 2026 · 1 min read

An accessible exploration of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, explaining how the concept of entropy dictates that systems naturally slide into disorder. The essay applies this physics principle to daily life, offering strategic frameworks for maintaining personal organization, relationships, and health against inevitable decline.

Personal Development Psychology Self Education

The World's Best Pavlok Story

By Tasshin Fogleman (Tasshin (tasshin.com)) · Jun 4, 2026 · 1 min read

During an extended solitary retreat in rural Vermont in early 2020 (oblivious to the pandemic unfolding outside), Tasshin Fogleman was training under his teacher Soryu at the Monastic Academy (MAPLE). The instruction was simple — follow the breath, stop thinking, break through. He couldn't last ten seconds without thinking. Out of desperation he turned to a Pavlok wrist device that delivers a small electric shock on command, using it to interrupt thoughts and train the opposite skill. The piece is a vivid case for not-thinking as a real, trainable capacity — and an unexpectedly effective collision between contemplative tradition and consumer behaviour-change tech.

Personal Development Philosophy Psychology

The Inner Ring

By C.S. Lewis (C.S. Lewis Society) · Jul 13, 2026 · 1 min read

A classic oration analyzing the human psychological desire to belong to exclusive, unwritten social hierarchies known as 'Inner Rings.' The text warns that the fear of being left out is a primary driver of moral compromise and personal corruption.

Political Economy Productivity

Minimalism, Success, and the Curious Writing Habit of George R.R. Martin

By James Clear (James Clear (jamesclear.com)) · Jun 1, 2026 · 1 min read

After his 1983 novel The Armageddon Rag flopped and a string of cancelled TV shows in the 1980s, George R.R. Martin returned to fiction in 1991 and has since written nearly 1.77 million words of A Song of Ice and Fire — entirely on a DOS computer running WordStar 4.0, with no internet, Facebook, or Twitter. Clear draws three lessons from Martin's setup: ruthless focus on the one craft, consistency across decades of obscurity, and patience that doesn't let the urge for overnight success derail daily work.

Personal Development Philosophy Technology

You Don't Have to Use AI

By The New Atlantis (The New Atlantis) · Jul 10, 2026 · 1 min read

A philosophical defense of opting out of the artificial intelligence adoption cycle. The essay argues that preserving unassisted human skills, cognitive depth, and manual creative processes holds intrinsic value and serves as a vital form of personal sovereignty.

Personal Development Productivity

For a More Creative Brain, Follow These 5 Steps

By James Clear (James Clear (jamesclear.com)) · May 31, 2026 · 1 min read

Uses the story of Frederic Eugene Ives — the 19th-century inventor whose halftone printing process cut the cost of reproducing photographs 15x — to illustrate James Webb Young's five-stage creative process from A Technique for Producing Ideas: (1) gather new material, both specific and general; (2) thoroughly work it over in your mind; (3) step completely away from the problem; (4) let the idea return to you in a flash; (5) shape and revise it based on real-world feedback. Creativity isn't generating something from nothing — it's making new combinations of existing ideas.

Neuroscience Philosophy Science

Irresponsible Musings on Lamarckian Evolution

By Markus Meister (Bits Brains and Behavior (markusmeister.com)) · Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read

Markus Meister — Caltech neuroscientist and formerly Harvard biology chair — delivers a 2018 Janelia conference talk in transcript form. Flagging it as 'utter speculation', he asks whether the brain's enormous capacity for learning from experience during a lifetime leaves any trace in the genome for future generations. He sketches a theoretical mechanism: RNA synthesized at newly formed synapses might travel via exosomes through the blood-brain barrier to the testes, where, potentially guided by endogenous CRISPR-like machinery, they could bias future neural wiring. He cites CRISPR in bacteria as proof that acquired immunity can be written into DNA.

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