Mindfulness
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The Good Fortress: On Finding Inward Freedom
Freedom and safety. These are two keys to a flourishing life, yet a tension exists between them. We see this at the public level all the time: Should people be allowed to do X? If so, when and how much? And how should we protect them from Y? What’s less obvious but just as important
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In Praise of Laundry and Dishes
I do a lot of dishes and laundry. These two activities – unless you live in a nude colony and always eat out – are inescapable facts of life. Unlike training for a marathon or writing a novel, there are no compounded returns. There’s no muscle being toned. No skill being polished. You wash the
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The Lost Art of Radical Attention
“Attention” is in short supply these days. According to one researcher, in just twelve years we’ve gone from being able to focus on a task for two and a half minutes to a mere 40 seconds. Our modern world is flooded with ads, apps, endless infotainment, and “bite-sized” everything you can think of. On a