A question I’ve been contemplating lately is whether we should continue living in the city center or move to a house in the suburbs. The distinction between a city and a suburb isn’t clear-cut. While a city is the core of a metropolitan area, a suburb is an area on the periphery of city limits. […]

A few years ago, I had a long conversation with a close friend who considers himself a communist. He’s smart, well-read, and genuinely motivated by concern for human suffering. That conversation has stayed with me, not because I felt he was malicious — he wasn’t — but because of how clearly it illustrated the intellectual […]

Most of us go through life reacting to situations rather than understanding why we react the way we do. Personality tests won’t give you all the answers, but they can short-circuit years of confusion about why you are the way you are — and why other people are so bafflingly different from you. I’ve taken […]

I’m the founder of an online-first community called The Good Life Collective. I started the community in 2022, and in this article, I’ll tell you the story of why and how I embarked on this journey. First of all, who is the community for? The Good Life Collective is a community for high-agency people who […]