português
BRAINPICKINGSThe Ecstasy of Influence: Jonathan Lethem on the Author as a Public Intellectual
A self-conscious reflection on literary self-consciousness, or what David Foster Wallace’s true gift really was.
BrainpickingsLearned Optimism: Martin Seligman on Happiness, Depression, and the Meaningful Life
What 25 years of research reveal about the cognitive skills of happiness and finding life's greater purpose. // Self-help that I vouch for.
NYTIMESMaria Popova Has Some Big Ideas
Maria Popova is the mastermind of Brain Pickings, one of the faster growing literary empires on the Internet, yet she is virtually unknown.
BRAINPICKINGSBeware of Beauty Overload: The Adaptive Eye of the Beholder
How sensory adaptation is compromising our experience of love.
BRAINPICKINGSMental Health, Free Will, and Your Microbiome
“We are legion, each and every one of us. Always a ‘we’ and never a ‘me.’” // Even when we are alone, we are never alone. We exist in symbiosis — a wonderful term that refers to different organisms living together. // All zoology is really ecology. We cannot fully understand the lives of animals without understanding our microbes and our symbioses with them. And we cannot fully appreciate our own microbiome without appreciating how those of our fellow species enrich and influence their lives. We need to zoom out to the entire animal kingdom, while zooming in to see the hidden ecosystems that exist in every creature.
BRAINPICKINGSF. Scott Fitzgerald Responds to Hate Mail
“The Rosseaus, Marxes, Tolstois — men of thought, mind you, ‘impractical’ men, ‘idealist’ have done more to decide the food you eat and the things you think + do than all the millions of Roosevelts and Rockerfellars.”
BRAINPICKINGSKurt Vonnegut Interviewed on NPR Inside Second Life
In 2006, mere months before his death, NPR interviewed the iconic author inside the virtual world Second Life.
BRAINPICKINGSSeveral Short Sentences About Writing
You can say smart, interesting, complicated things using short sentences. How long is a good idea?
BRAINPICKINGSHow to Build a Universe
Philip K. Dick on Reality, Media Manipulation, and Human Heroism // “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
If you see any merit on this website's content, please spread the word—comment and share on social networks. It is a practice of generosity that helps my own practice of generosity in producing and making this content available.
(except where explicitly otherwise indicated)
This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 
