You realize that literally nothing can make you happy. At 57, Will Smith’s words carry the sort of gentle wisdom that comes only with experience. It’s not cynicism it’s understanding. Years in the ...

Soren Kierkegaard, a Danish philosopher who died at 42 in 1855, is a friend of mine. I like his hair. I like everything he wrote. Like this for instance: "I have just now come from a party where I was ...

Makes sense, except it doesn’t. Where major personal decisions are concerned, most people are terrible at predicting what will make them happy, if only because there’s no way to really know whether ...