7 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
British-Swiss author who has built a career making philosophy accessible to general audiences — applying philosophical traditions to modern anxieties about status, work, relationships, and travel — and founding The School of Life.
Scott Alexander's Substack — successor to Slate Star Codex — combining rigorous statistical reasoning, psychiatric expertise, and intellectual humility to produce the most influential writing in the rationalist/EA community.
American blogger and author whose The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck became one of the best-selling self-help books of the decade by applying a counter-intuitive Stoic-adjacent framework — stop pursuing positivity, instead choose your problems wisely.
An anonymous YouTube channel producing short animated philosophical essays on existential themes — belonging to the tradition of philosophical wonder applied to everyday experience.
Alain de Botton's cultural organization and YouTube channel that translates philosophical and psychological ideas into accessible animated content — one of the most-watched philosophy channels globally.
Scott Alexander's blog (predecessor to Astral Codex Ten) — the defining intellectual publication of the rationalist community, known for its exhaustive steelmanning, epistemic standards, and synthetic intelligence.
Mark Manson's 2016 self-help book arguing that the pursuit of positivity is itself the problem — that a good life comes from choosing meaningful problems to struggle with rather than trying to eliminate struggle.