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Why Is It So Hard to Admit You've Made a Mistake?
When we make a mistake, we can resolve the uncomfortable tension we experience in one of two ways.
Jul 8
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Kate McKay
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Sunday Firesides: The Empty Niche
Every life carves its own niche. Whether it ends up filled, or empty, is up to you.
Jul 5
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Kate McKay
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Making a Living Online: This Post Brought to You By…A Revenue Model That No Longer Exists
Welcome back to my series on our history of making a living online.
Jul 1
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Brett McKay
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June 2026
Sunday Firesides: Silence as a Soundtrack
If life isn't interspersed with interludes of silence, it becomes a benumbing blur.
Jun 28
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Kate McKay
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The Paradox of Skill
Why extraordinary kids get rejected from Harvard, no one has hit .400 since Ted Williams, and you got passed over for that promotion
Jun 24
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Brett McKay
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Sunday Firesides: You Are Not the Exception
There's no getting around life's universal laws.
Jun 21
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Kate McKay
135
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DB Dialogues: Bruce Nichols on the Friendships, Rivalries, and Extraordinary Minds of the Emerson Circle
What was going on in Concord in the 1840s?
Jun 17
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Brett McKay
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Sunday Firesides: In Your Element
Many people go through life like a perpetually dry-docked swan.
Jun 14
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Kate McKay
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The Four Faces of Envy
Three of them will eat you alive. One can make you better.
Jun 10
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Brett McKay
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Sunday Firesides: Exercise, Man’s Most Faithful Companion
Picture for a moment a man out running in the cool evening air. He appears to be alone. But he is not.
Jun 7
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Kate McKay
118
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5 Underexamined Consequences of the Declining Birth Rate
Five lesser-examined ways a world with fewer children could change our culture and our lives.
Jun 3
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Kate McKay
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May 2026
Sunday Firesides: Dying of Embarrassment
Strange as it may seem, people will move toward a threat rather than violate social norms or risk awkwardness.
May 31
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Kate McKay
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