Get Born Standing Up. Steve Martin recounts his 18-year journey from an amateur magician to a comedy superstar. It’s filled ...

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The common career advice to “follow your passion” often leads to anxiety, job-hopping, and chronic dissatisfaction. Cal ...

Good news/bad news on the ETIAS EU visa that you’re not supposed to call a visa. This “permission to visit” with fingerprints and facial recognition has been pushed back to Q3 2026. The bad news is, ...

An AI tool I’m most excited about right now is MyLens AI, which takes your pasted text, webpages, PDFs, spreadsheets, and even YouTube ...

Understanding the root of moral conflicts is essential for maintaining social cohesion. Kurt Gray reveals that our deepest disagreements stem not from hatred or ignorance, but from different ...

The Digital Nomad Golden Age is Now. I got so annoyed by an article from two travelers wanting to lock the door behind them that I wrote a 3,000-word blog post in one sitting as a ...

Rental car toll hack. Rental car companies love to shake you down with their toll programs—- either pay an absurd daily fee (like $25/day!) for their toll service or risk gettin ...

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A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of A Better Life for Half the Price and The World’s Cheapest Destinations. See past editions here, where your like-minded ...

Turns out that brainstorming is an epigraphic activity — something best done on walls. Reading and writing on walls is a different function than reading a book. A broad wall-view is an ideal approach ...

A work crane at the Clock site in western Texas. There is a Clock ringing deep inside a mountain. It is a huge Clock, hundreds of feet tall, designed to tick for 10,000 years. Every once in a while ...