How Love Comes to You – The Marginalian
By Maria Popova We spend our days making plans, making promises, making predictions about the possible, and yet the most bewildering thing about life is […]
Emotional hygiene | Seth’s Blog
After doing an autopsy at the morgue, it’s a good idea for doctors to wash their hands before delivering babies. A few hundred years ago, […]
Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tenets of Storytelling – The Marginalian
By Maria Popova The year of reading more and writing better is well underway with writing advice the likes of David Ogilvy’s 10 no-bullshit tips, […]
J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children” – The Marginalian
“I do not believe that I have ever written a children’s book,” the great Maurice Sendak once said in an interview. “I don’t write for […]
Attention up for auction | Seth’s Blog
Attention up for auction | Seth’s Blog If you win an auction to get a click, you probably overpaid. Every other bidder stopped bidding, that’s […]
Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life – The Marginalian
We are each born with a wilderness of possibility within us. Who we become depends on how we tend to our inner garden — what […]
How to Be a Good Explorer on the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself – The Marginalian
Life is an ongoing expedition into the brambled tendrilled wilderness of ourselves, continually stymied by all we mistake for a final destination — success, superhuman […]
The McIntosh Modernity Index | Seth’s Blog
The McIntosh Modernity Index | Seth’s Blog There’s a village in Luxembourg that’s right outside the main metropolis. A farmer often ties up a donkey […]
An Illustrated Love Letter to the World – The Marginalian
We forget that none of this had to exist — that we weren’t owed mountains and music by the universe. And maybe we have to […]
The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity – The Marginalian
“A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity,” William James wrote in his pioneering 1884 theory of how our bodies affect our feelings — the […]
