The Best Content Curators on the Internet “I am not Einstein. But I have an advantage- I can read Einstein”. I love reading, but we have far too much information and far too little time. Information consumes our attention and thus information consumes our life. …

Cultivating the critical meta-skill for the information age. To paraphrase Adam Smith’s 1968 investing book The Money Game; if you don’t know who you are, the stock market is an expensive place to find out. ‘Behavioural alpha’ has emerged as a popular concept over the last couple of years. As…

Because all my articles shouldn’t be 25 minutes long. I’ve just watched two great Netflix shows: the series The Haunting of Hill House and the documentary My Octopus Teacher. And now I am going to spoil them for you, so if you haven’t seen either, and plan to, please stop…

‘Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form.’ - Jean Luc Godard [This article is part of a continuing series on the interrelated topics of attention, spirituality, mental health, society and technology] Our brains take infinitely complex inputs and distil them down to what we need to survive in…

A radical idea for unprecedented times. Watching the chaos of 2020 unfold, I keep assuming at some point things will return to ‘normal’. But then everything I’ve read over the last several years points to increasing destabilization. And it’s really quite simple why. …

I’m pretty sure we all know by now that Social Media can be bad for you. The genuine benefits of connection and stimulation come at the even steeper cost of manipulating our behavior and fracturing our society. The obvious solution is to leave, to go cold turkey. But I just…

(So Far) I’ve just read a book that has potentially changed everything I understood about the world and snapped together all the existential questions I’ve been wrestling with over the last few years. So settle in; this is going to take a little while to explain. The Master and his…

“When the whole world is globalized, you’re going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a single match,”- René Girard I’m a sucker for trying to understand the world at the macro level. I believe that the more globalized the world becomes, the broader your worldview…

Here are the 10 best articles I read in 2019. Once again, the real star behind the scenes is The Browser. For the last several years it’s been my favourite internet site, and one of the few subscription services I pay for. The Browser curates the best 5 articles a…