The Adaptive Human
Dan Ackers, Ryan MaxwellEssays for people whose lives still work on the outside, but something internally feels slightly off.
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This piece was supposed to be about moods
I had planned to write a more conventional piece this week.
We had several guests coming over, which took most of the time I had available.
And then home kept interrupting what remained.
So I decided not to smooth those interruptions a...
The gut feeling that won’t tell you why
Sometimes a gut feeling arrives as an answer.
Other times, it only becomes noticeable because it keeps nagging.
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One Saturday afternoon during university, the first sign was that I had suddenly become bad at a game I w...
When Admiration Becomes a Verdict
This is a piece about the moment comparison changes shape.
When someone else’s progress still points toward a possible future, but also starts making our own unfinishedness feel embarrassing.
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I’ve recently had severa...
I said "I don't know yet"
I have had conversations where I said “I don’t know yet”, but it did not land as “I don’t know yet.”
It landed heavier than I meant it.
I was trying to say that I needed more time to understand what I thought.
But I could feel the senten...
I wonder if my houseplant could help with the mortgage
I have been thinking about hobbies lately.
Which is dangerous, because one of mine has started wandering suspiciously close to the household budget.
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I suspect many of us have had this slightly dangerous though...
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We can build entire lives around what was once necessary, then forget why. I write about the patterns hidden inside ordinary lives. The ones we carry, repeat, and often only recognize later.
I work with men who have built the life they wanted and can't shake the feeling that something is missing. I help them determine where they are, how they got there, and what to do about it — so they don't have to figure it out alone.
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