The mechanics of stress are complicated and subtle. Many claims and conversations about wealth, class, health, poverty and well being are infantile as a result of not being informed by Sapolsky's work.

Get stronger everytime you break.

An immensely approachable book on semantics.

How do you improve your ability to communicate?

So many conversations today would be far more productive if this book could fully inform everyone talking.

The stoics aren't cold and emotionless. They just don't care to suffer unnecessarily.

Count on what you never know.

It's complicated, but you don't have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.

James Clear picks up where Charles Duhigg left off with an accessible analysis of how habits form, work and change.

Marcus Aurelius and the stoics show us how to remove the emotional fat from our thinking. Incredibly useful, even 2,000 years later.

What principles do you operate by? Do you need better ones?

Honesty is life's Master Variable.

Annaka Harris unpacks a mind-numbingly difficult topic with deft clarity and accessible ease.

This is the most read book in philosophy. For good reason.

Sam Harris essentially discusses how you can become less of a zombie.

One of the most practical books to start changing your body.

Should you pivot or persevere?

Start with Part III of this book. Should be required reading.

The classic story of the Buddha.

How lovely that things twist and bind like twine, making meaning easier to find.

We act more through story than we do by reason.

How did we get here? And in what direction does that imply we are pointing?

We all have history. It's often a disservice to forget.

The OG text of Buddhism

Solitude is underrated.

Fascinating ideas, and well worth exploring. But careful of rabbit holes with slick walls.

Don't be a chump.

Are you even thinking about your thinking at all?

What do things look like 10 years from now? How about 50?

Bang your head against problems until they cower and beg you for mercy.

What do you owe?

I guarantee you're not getting enough. And you'll pay for it.

You might want to plan on making more plans.

Are you the key that keeps the wheel of your life spinning?

Tinkered Thinking couldn't possibly be an experiment in the 4-hour work week... because it requires hours everyday to produce.

Is morality a spectrum? Or, is it perhaps a little less straight forward?

The structure of the Hero's story can provide a starting point for figuring out which direction might be good in life.

Even in the age of social media, we battle age-old concerns anew.

How did our present world come to be?

Picking up where Jared Diamond was a little vague, 1491 is incisvely detailed and a magnificent read.

A gorgeous book about one of the wisest and steadiest minds our species has produced.

Careful which sort of world you create. Whether it be for the world, or your own mind.

Fascinating analysis, but unfortunately not much in the way of solutions or advice.