Some food for thought on a Saturday

Often I find links that are interesting but I don’t have anything especially interesting to say about them, other than I thought they were worthwhile reading.  Here are 30 of them for this month. As the image says, you may get lots of your own ideas from reading the ideas of others:

1. Philosophy by Susan Rigetti
2. Moral grandstanding in public discourse: Status-seeking motives as a potential explanatory mechanism in predicting conflic
3. The Five Types of Personal Boundaries (and How to Set Them)
4. One simple way to build someone’sconfidence: Ask for their advice
5. Are We Trading Our Happiness for Modern Comforts?
6. The Stoic Antidote to Frustration: Marcus Aurelius on How to Keep Your Mental Composure and Emotional Equanimity When People Let You Down
7. Imagination is the sixth sense. Be careful how you use it
8. Jeff Bezos Faces Down The Overview EffectIn Space
9. Joseph Landry sentenced to seven years in jail for death of Dartmouth friend in 2018
10. We‚are Learning the Wrong Lessons From the World’s Happiest Countries
11. Even if You Think Discussing Aliens Is Ridiculous Just Hear Me Out
12. Years You Have Left to Live Probably
13. Desire paths: the illicit trails that defy the urban planners
14. Other People’s Despair – Mending the Social Fabric Won’t Fix the Suicide Crisis
15. Stop Doomscrolling and Grab a Game Controller Instead
16. How to Separate Your Identity From Your Behavior (and Why You Should)
17. The Blackfoot Wisdom that Inspired Maslow’sHierarchy
18. I Miss My Bar – Recreate Your Favorite Bar’s Atmosphere
19. At Talkspace Start-Up Culture Collides With Mental Health Concerns
20. Emotional labor
21. Biblical and Greek Ambivalence Towards Child Sacrifice – TheTorah.com
22. Cream of the Crop: 8 Architecture Firms Leading the Urban Farming Revolution
23. The necessity of Kripke
24. Why Emotionally Intelligent People Embrace the 2-Way Door Rule to Make Better Faster Decisions
25. How does Google’s monopoly hurt you? Try these searches.
26. Effective altruism is logical but too unnatural to catch on
27. Darkness is the absence of recognition
28. A Checklist Before Dying
29. Empires pandemics and the economic future of the West
30. The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

(Photo by CJ Dayrit on Unsplash)