Carpe Diem

Sculpture in Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark. Sculptor: Bertel Thorvaldsen

What is at stake is far from insignificant: it is how one should live one’s life.

Book Review: Man’s Search for Meaning

A Robin perched on barbed wire

Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl describes his internal struggle to find reasons to live during his incarceration in the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp.

Capable Men of History: Sun Tzu

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The Art of War is undoubtedly the most influential treatise on war ever written. A masterpiece of war and strategy that is still universally employed today.

Mental Models: Cognitive Weaponisation

Various different Mental Models depicted as popping out of somebody's head

We can’t entirely depend on personal experience and intuition to formulate an accurate worldview. Learn how you can use mental models to see the world through a broader lens.

Capable Men of History: Socrates

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It would be better for me—that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself. Socrates [470– 399 BC]