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Self Aware
Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity – The Marginalian
“Give me solitude,” Whitman demanded in his ode to the eternal tension between city and soul, “give me again O…
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7 Python Mistakes Beginners Make (And What to Do Instead)
Some Python bugs announce themselves with a traceback. The maddening ones don’t. pip swears the package is installed, yet the…
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Attention as an Instrument of Love – The Marginalian
Whatever fundamental reality might exist, we live out our lives in a subjective reality defined by what we agree to…
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Henri Bergson on How to See Reality – The Marginalian
In 1896, decades before Santiago Ramón y Cajal pioneered neuroscience, more than a century before Oliver Sacks showed us how…
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Thoreau on Knowing vs. Seeing – The Marginalian
“No really creative transformation can possibly be effected by human beings,” physicist David Bohm wrote in examining the nature of…
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What You Need to Learn in 2026
AI skills fall into three broad categories: technical (programming, model building, deployment), analytical (data interpretation, evaluation), and strategic (adoption, governance,…
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Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley on the Surest Remedy for a Sunken Spirit and What Makes Life Worth Living – The Marginalian
Half a century before Walt Whitman considered what makes life worth living when a paralytic stroke boughed him to the…
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Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life – The Marginalian
“Place and a mind may interpenetrate till the nature of both is altered,” the great Scottish mountaineer and poet Nan…
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Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers – The Marginalian
“The past only comes back when the present runs so smoothly that it is like the sliding surface of a…
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A Brilliant Young Woman’s Forgotten Field Guide to the Art of Knowing What You Really Want – The Marginalian
“One must know what one wants to be,” the eighteenth-century French mathematician Émilie du Châtelet wrote in weighing the nature…
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