Why Most New Habits Die in Week Three, and What Five Habit Books Say to Do Instead You bought the gym membership on the first of the month. By the eighteenth, the bag is still by the door, and you are not sure when you last opened it. This is not a character flaw. It is how most new... EN Read more
How to Read More Books This Year Without Finding More Time Last January you probably promised yourself twelve books. By March, the stack by your bed had become furniture. You were not lazy: you had work, family, a long drive, and a phone that never stopped as... EN Read more
Five Ideas From Ibn Khaldun That Explain the News Today In 1377, an Arab scholar wrote that every state is born, grows strong, ages and fades, and that you can watch the stages happen. Six hundred years later, historians with satellites, climate records an... EN Read more
Your First Salary: Five Rules from Money Books Before the Second One Lands Your first salary arrives on a Tuesday. By Friday, a good part of it is already gone, and you can't quite say where. Nobody is to blame for this. Nobody ever showed you what to do in the first week. Y... EN Read more
Five Leadership Lessons From Leaders You Already Know, for Your First Team On Saturday night you were a colleague. On Sunday morning you are the person six people look at when something goes wrong. Nobody hands you a manual for that moment, but this region has produced leade... EN Read more
Seven hours of screen time a day: five summaries that give you your attention back You opened your screen-time report on Sunday and it said seven hours a day. Not a bad week, an average one. You are not lazy, and you did not decide to spend a third of your waking life looking at a p... EN Read more