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Mind & Meaning
The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
People who stop caring about their birthday may have quietly changed what they need the day to mean
One sign happiness is becoming quieter is when other people's lives stop feeling like a scoreboard
An argument can lose its grip when you no longer need the other person to admit you were right
Watching a father change in his 60s and 70s can make you wonder which version of him was there all along
People who push their chair back in when they leave a table may be showing the kind of small attentiveness relationships run on
People who aren't rich but keep money in the bank may be protecting a private buffer against vulnerability they remember too well
People in their 60s and 70s who still enjoy life may share one quiet habit: they stop spending energy on decisions that aren't theirs to make
Research suggests people in their 70s who spend hours watching TV may be filling unstructured time with a form of company that is reliably there
Adult siblings can drift apart without either person choosing it, until neither knows how to start again
I'm 38 and I noticed last week that my mother and I have started having the same conversation in two parts — the first one happens on the phone, and the second one happens in my head twenty minutes after we hang up, where I finally say what I actually wanted to say, and she finally hears it
