Derek Thompson

What we lose when we stop showing up.

A Gambling Mormon, the Painful Demands of Modern Beauty, Purity Wisdom, and Miserable Metrics

Ghost Pepper Mania, Sentimental Prophets, Health-Maxing, and a Crisis of Conscientiousness

The Justification Machine, the Anti-Social Century, Budget Culture, and Oliver Burkeman on Burnout

Unequal Love, Scrolling Alone, Foot Washing Outrage, and the Virtues of a Good Party

Languishing, Horror Movies, Conspirituality, Existentialist Life Hacks, the Quittin’ Spirit, and Dune

1. Jesus’s parable of the lost sheep is one of the great stories in the […]

1. So you’re trying to sleep, and it’s well after bedtime, but you’re tossing and […]

“When work becomes the primary arbiter of identity, purpose, worth, and community in our lives, […]

1) A head resident at Stanford University, aged 36, just found out he has inoperable […]