Podcast Episodes

Bookmark: Honing healthy happy habits with the Holdernesses

Season 1

Penn and Kim Holderness are a beam of light in the world.

If you aren't one of the billion people -- like, an actual billion -- who've watched the…

2 years, 8 months ago

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Chapter 122: Tank Sinatra on masterpiece microdosing and meme mastery in our manufactured madness

Season 1 Episode 122

Diluting central news sources. Constantly narrowing echo chambers. An ever-fracturing sense of community. It's easy to feel disconnected from each ot…

2 years, 9 months ago

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Bookmark: On braving bushy brambles and becoming a birder

I felt trapped early in the pandemic.

I normally walk every day in downtown Toronto. I write on park benches and in distant coffee shops and love p…

2 years, 9 months ago

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Chapter 121: Johann Hari on deleting devious dogma and discovering deeper designs

Season 1 Episode 121

Happy full moon, everybody! Do you feel like the world today -- our culture today -- is pulling us further and further away from things that matter? …

2 years, 10 months ago

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[Oscar Encore!] Daniels existentially explore everything everywhere

Season 1

Happy new moon, everybody!     I have a very special Oscar Encore episode for you today -- in celebration of our guests little-film-that-could EVERY…

2 years, 10 months ago

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Chapter 120: Timothy Goodman on popping privilege paradigms and paving personal paths

Season 1 Episode 120

Happy Snow Moon, everybody!

I've been thinking a lot again about what makes life important.

I'm convinced it's just not social media. News media.…

2 years, 11 months ago

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Bookmark: The Current

Happy new moon! 

 

Today I'm sharing a recent conversation I had with veteran journalist Matt Galloway for his show The Current.

 

Hope you enjoy! 

2 years, 11 months ago

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Chapter 119: Steve Toltz on refining writing rituals and raising ravenous readers

Season 1 Episode 119

What is your favorite novel?

It's a hard question. A big question! A question that makes most people hmmm for a while before they get to an answer.…

3 years ago

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Chapter 118: Catherine Hernandez poses for positivity with pride and presence

Season 1 Episode 118

Do you ever have a book go viral through your family?

Your aunt reads it and tells everyone at dinner. The copy gets passed along. A few more dog e…

3 years ago

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The Best of 2022: Neil Pasricha winds and wades through wandering wisdoms

Can you believe it?

 

We started 3 Books back on March 31, 2018 with the goal of counting down the 1000 most formative books in the world. We said we…

3 years ago

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