Go to an Iranian dinner party in America and count how long it takes before someone gives you unsolicited advice about your career, your investments, and your posture. My record is four minutes. It's delivered at volume, in two languages, by someone who's known you since dessert. It's also usually correct. Underneath it runs a constant baseline of jokes — nothing too grim to be funny. Exile is funny. Inflation is funny. The uncle who lost everything and is now a dean of engin

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Why I'm Trying to Bring Old-School Gathering Back

I came across this quote recently, and it struck me because it isn't really about money or chores...

Amor fati - the love of fate - sounds like surrender. Love your fate—accept what comes, embrace it fully, want nothing to be different. And yet the people who live by it are rarely passive...