life-lessons

Father’s Day Advice From History’s Oldest Dad

The ancient Sumerian King Shuruppak left a lot of his worldly wisdom behind — nearly 5,000 years later, a surprising amount of it still applies

The SoCal Skater Dude Who Doubles As YouTube’s Philosopher King

Tucked away in the mountains above Malibu, the Illusion is rustling around his garden to pick me a strawberry. The good news is that he’s…

A Gentleman’s Guide to Giving Women Compliments

“You have the prettiest eyes I’ve ever seen,” a man once told me after sidling up to me at a bar on a sweltering summer…

If You Have To Be 100 Percent All In, You’d Never Accomplish Anything At All

Why this perennial life advice is kind of bullshit

What Makes Me… Annoying?