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Dying Breed Dialogues: Michael Easter
The case for rucking, under and overrated health trends, and how your fitness tracker is lying to you
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Brett McKay
13
Sunday Firesides: The Loudest Part of Yourself
Anciently, people used magical incantations to invoke protections, catalyze transformations, and secure blessings, believing these verbal expressions…
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Kate McKay
15
A New Kind of Monasticism: Friendship as a Spiritual Discipline
“The human heart is created in such a way that we seek not the many but the one particular other and rest there.” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Kate McKay
10
Sunday Firesides: Order Off the Menu
We prize the ability to make free choices.
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Kate McKay
21

February 2025

How Understanding the Idea of Social Acceleration Can Help You Make Sense of This Disorienting, Relentless World
Why it feels like you're living in a frenetic standstill
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Brett McKay
35
Sunday Firesides: What Would Disappoint Your 16-Year-Old Self About the Current You?
Your 16-year-old self had hopes, values, dreams — a vision of what your life would be like in the future.
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Kate McKay
23
How I Take Notes in Books
A peek at the process I've used to prep for 1,000+ podcast episodes
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Brett McKay
20
Sunday Firesides: Live to the Point of Tears
When someone knows that a friend, (soon-to-be-ex) significant other, or family member will soon be moving, they sometimes begin to emotionally detach…
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Kate McKay
21
A New Kind of Monasticism: The Power of Community to Shape the Soul
Bonhoeffer’s blueprint for life together
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Kate McKay
41
Sunday Firesides: The Life That Lives Is the Life That Moves
Motion captures the eye.
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Kate McKay
19
Increase Your Agency By Increasing Your Affordances
Once you learn about affordances, you're going to see them everywhere
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Brett McKay
28
Sunday Firesides: Be Someone's Atmospheric Getaway
Have you ever flown from somewhere freezing and dreary and landed somewhere warm and tropical?
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Kate McKay
19
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