10 Learnings from 10 Years of Brain Pickings

I remember my first awareness of mortality as a child in Bulgaria. I was nine and my father was relaying … More

A final message from T. Boone Pickens

“Sonny, I don’t care who you are. Some day you’re going to have to sit on your own bottom.” I … More

If you truly love me – Raja Mehdi Ali Khan If you truly love me, Give me all your sorrow. … More

I hope with this book to convince you that data are profoundly dumb… If causation cannot be reduced to correlation, … More

I spent over 25 hours building a cut-down version of Sapiens. The goal? Future-me should be happy to read this … More

In an age obsessed with practicality, productivity, and efficiency, I frequently worry that we are leaving little room for abstract … More

Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own … More

“””I didn’t drink even one drop of milk when I was a baby.”” That didn’t stop Ming and Jiang from … More

A parrot has a question for humans. Human activity has brought my kind to the brink of extinction, but I … More