The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck author explains why comforts & highs are not the same thing as happiness.

DM Good morning. What are the basic types, forms or taxonomy of human emotions? Good morning. A question that sits at the intersection of evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and philosophy — exactly the kind of terrain worth mapping carefully. There's no settled consensus, but several frameworks have earned serious traction: The Basic/Primary Emotions tradition traces to Darwin and was systematized most influentially by Paul Ekman, who identified six cross-culturally universa

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Latest monthly issue, The Energy Transition, covers all these questions and more, digging into how our understanding of energy — and how we source and use it — is evolving. Below, you’ll find a taste of what’s in the issue, which is out today on Big Think.

DM Good morning. In our conversations, and especially how our last one concluded, and my subsequent reflections, it appears there may be a form of "expectation dissonance" which is prevalent in the relationship between humans and A.I. Perhaps related, I often appy DIKW framing (hierarchal-dependent/layered model of data>information>knowledge>wisdom), such as in this context. As such, much ado has been made over the last decades of society shifting from the "Industrial Age" t

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