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December 2025

Dying Breed: Year One in Review
Whenever you launch a new project, you can’t help but feel nervous, worried that it’s going to flop.
 • Brett McKay and Kate McKay
Dying Breed Dialogues: Jimmy Hawkins on It’s a Wonderful Life
Jimmy Hawkins was four and a half years old when he played Tommy Bailey, George Bailey’s youngest child in America’s most beloved Christmas film, It’s a…
 • Brett McKay
Sunday Firesides: Restore the True Meaning of Focus
In the modern day, we often use “focus” as a verb. It’s an imperative — Focus! — with which we admonish ourselves, and others, to apply attention to…
 • Kate McKay
The Best Books the McKays Read in 2025
Our favorite reads of the year.
 • Brett McKay and Kate McKay
Sunday Firesides: A Liturgy for Our Lives
We tend to think fulfillment lies in chasing one new thing after another. But the pleasure of sheer novelty is fleeting.
 • Kate McKay
A Culture of Control vs. A Culture of Chance
The centuries-long tug-of-war between two orientations towards luck
 • Brett McKay

November 2025

Sunday Firesides: Give the Gift of Self
Everyone knows that some acts mean more than others. And everyone, deep down, knows why.
 • Kate McKay
Dying Breed Dialogues: Tiffany Jenkins on the Rise and Fall of Private Life
It seems like the default in today’s world is to broadcast all your thoughts and going-ons in your life.
 • Brett McKay
Sunday Firesides: Keep in Touch
There’s value in keeping in touch with a wide variety of energies, even in the form of irregular contact surfaces that allow you continued connection to…
 • Kate McKay
How I Work: The FAQ
I love reading articles where people share the tools and techniques they use to get stuff done.
 • Brett McKay
Sunday Firesides: Yes, Whammies!
 • Kate McKay
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