Lifestyle
Do You Need A Degree to Be an Expert?
True expertise comes from years of focused practice and learning, not just earning a degree.
Art & Culture
“The Hunger Games” trilogy by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games trilogy highlights many important aspects of tyranny and rebellion, the most important of which is that pursuing your values requires freedom.
Lifestyle
Liberate Your Mind by Rejecting the Arbitrary
Rejecting ideas that are not based on evidence can clarify your thinking and free yourself from all manner of needless anxiety.
Philosophy
The White, the Gray, and the Black
Why staying consistently moral leads to flourishing while compromising values or destroying them results in a life devoid of meaning.
Art & Culture
“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick
Empathy, religion, war, and social hierarchies in Dick's 1968 sci-fi classic.
Announcements
LevelUp Europe and You
Excel in life. Fight for liberty. —If these are your goals, this conference is for you.
Business & Finance
How Slow Thinking Leads to Fast Results
My sales experience taught me that slowing down and thinking is the path to fast results.
Lifestyle
When Should You “Follow Your Gut”?
Our subconscious ideas and feelings can be enormously helpful—or hugely destructive—depending on the conscious thinking that informs them.
Lifestyle
Angel Walker-Werth: To Say ‘I Love You’ One Must First Know How to Say the ‘I’
What is the nature of love? Is love really selfless? Angel Walker-Werth answered these questions at NICON 2023.
Art & Culture
1960: Pop Hits in Review
We’re diving into our musical detective work, examining the pop hits of history to find “the day the music died.” In this episode, we look at the Billboard Top 10 for 1960.
Politics & Liberty
‘We Have to Protect Our Geniuses’: Reflections on President Trump’s 2024 Victory Speech
Over the course of the past decades, Democrats have become increasingly vocal in demanding that rich people (be forced to) redistribute their wealth.
Science & Technology
A Notemaking System for Compounding Knowledge
Investing in a tool that maximizes your greatest asset—reason—is one of the smartest choices you can make.
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