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Sunday Firesides: Turn on Your Inner Lights
We inevitably pass through periods in which external lights go dark.
Feb 22
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Kate McKay
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Navigating the Tricky Tension Between Love and Respect
Two dynamics are needed in healthy relationships — and they're awfully hard to balance
Feb 18
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Brett McKay
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Sunday Firesides: Give It to the Busy Man
Energy operates on the principle of the flywheel.
Feb 15
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Kate McKay
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DB Dialogues: Adam Adatto Sandel on Happiness in Action
Adam Adatto Sandel holds the Guinness World Record for the most pull-ups in one minute.
Feb 11
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Brett McKay
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Sunday Firesides: The Sweet Taste of (Healthy) Revenge
Revenge typically gets a bad rap. But a certain kind can actually be a healthy, productive force.
Feb 8
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Kate McKay
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The Power of "I Like,"or Why Do People Hate the Idea of Motivation?
People champion discipline and dismiss motivation. Why?
Feb 4
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Kate McKay
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Sunday Firesides: You Don't Have to Be Perfect, Just Aware
Happy relationships do not depend on participants overcoming their flaws — only on the frank acknowledgment of them.
Feb 1
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Kate McKay
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January 2026
Ex Libris: Man's Search for Meaning
I’m starting a periodic series on Dying Breed called Ex Libris (Latin for “from the library of”).
Jan 28
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Brett McKay
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Sunday Firesides: Physical Prayer
Prayer can be spoken. Prayer can be embodied.
Jan 18
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Kate McKay
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Don’t Just Read the Great Books. Read Schlocky Ephemera, Too
In praise of disposable culture
Jan 14
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Brett McKay
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Sunday Firesides: No Regrets
When we think about life’s big regrets, we often picture not going after the one who got away, choosing the wrong profession, or never taking that…
Jan 11
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Kate McKay
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Nietzsche's Last Man Wears a WHOOP Band
How the mustachioed thinker and other philosophers predicted our sickly obsession with health
Jan 7
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Brett McKay
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