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The Elements of Trust
What makes you believe someone?
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Benjamin Carlson
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October 2023
Why I Write by Hand
The benefits of thinking manually
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Benjamin Carlson
5
September 2023
The Cloudy Mirror
On the wonder of being misunderstood
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Benjamin Carlson
3
Who's the Smartest Person You Know?
On the ecstasy of influence
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Benjamin Carlson
5
August 2023
What a Great Editor Can Do For You
The beauty of borrowing another's perspective
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Benjamin Carlson
2
'Why Is There a God?'
On the power of impossible questions
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Benjamin Carlson
5
The Geography of Personality
On the pleasures of a familiar place
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Benjamin Carlson
2
July 2023
What Beethoven Has to Teach About Self Reinvention
Enacting heroism through music
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Benjamin Carlson
June 2023
'Dr. McLuhan, Do You Want to Be Famous?'
A story on how fame is rarely an accident
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Benjamin Carlson
Where Happiness Comes From
Not long ago, many childhoods saw tragedy and pain. Were their lives ruined?
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Benjamin Carlson
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How to Write Terribly
Don't plagiarize, but especially don't follow the same bad advice
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Benjamin Carlson
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Spending Your Days in Gulliver's World
The landscape of attention has a warped scale
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Benjamin Carlson
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