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The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius A look into the triumphs and tragedies of the Roman Empire's first twelve emperors

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What's it about? The Twelve Caesars (121 CE) is one of the most colorful biographical works ever written. By turns opinionated, sensational, and dramatic, it documents the lives of the men who wielded absolute power in Rome after its transformation from a republic into an empire in 27 BCE. A one-time private secretary to one of those emperors, Hadrian, Suetonius was intimately familiar with court life. In the Twelve Caesars, he uses that knowledge to shed light on the highs and lows of the empire’s early years, as well as on the virtues and all-too-human failings of its supposedly divine rulers. Stretching from the north of England to the Sahara desert, from Portugal to the middle east, the Roman Empire was one of the biggest empires in history. And at the heart of this huge empire sat one man ruling over everything: the emperor. Rome’s emperors could be good, bad, kind, cruel, sensible or unhinged. In these lessons, we’ll look at Rome first’s emperors through the eyes of the ...
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How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay by Jenny Lawson Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative

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What's it about? How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay (2026) hands you practical, lived-in strategies for handling mental health struggles, creative block, and overwhelming anxiety. You’ll find ways to reframe your darkest moments into sources of strength, along with tools for setting unapologetic boundaries that protect your peace. These insights help you survive and thrive on the days your brain tries to sabotage you. Narrated by…. Some mornings, you wake up already tired. Your brain starts running before you’ve even opened your eyes, listing everything that could go wrong today, everything you forgot yesterday, everything you’re behind on. You lie there for a minute just trying to gather enough fight to sit up, and that alone takes more out of you than most people spend on a full day of work. But the world keeps asking you to show up – and keep producing, keep working. You end up convinced everyone else got some instruction manual for being a person that you somehow missed. Thi...
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Digital Exhaustion by Paul Leonardi Simple Rules for Reclaiming Your Life

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What's it about? Digital Exhaustion (2025) explores how everyday digital tools quietly drain your energy by fragmenting attention, distorting social inferences, and amplifying emotional strain. It lays out eight practical rules for reshaping how you use technology so you can reduce burnout, regain focus, and turn your devices into a source of support rather than exhaustion. Do you ever close your laptop feeling wiped out, even though you have physical energy left in your body? That wired-but-empty state fueled by endless emails, chats, and social feeds is digital exhaustion – your mental battery draining while your devices keep demanding attention. In this lesson, you’ll explore digital exhaustion, how it relates to stress and burnout, and why your habits with screens matter more than any single app. You’ll find out exactly what drains your energy and discover eight simple rules to protect it, recharge sooner, and let your tools refresh you instead of wearing you down. Let’s di...
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Leadership Strategy and Tactics by Jocko Willink Field Manual

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What's it about? Leadership Strategy and Tactics (2020) teaches you how to take the skills of a high-functioning Navy SEAL team and apply them to your workplace. You’ll learn about practices such as Extreme Ownership, and find out why humility is better than arrogance. These tips will help you to leave your ego at the door and to remember that your team’s success should always come before personal success. Being a team leader can be fraught with challenges. You’re often called upon to juggle multiple responsibilities, make tough decisions, and many must overcome their own insecurities. But fortunately, for most of us, being a team leader isn’t a matter of life or death – and that’s because we’re not leading Navy SEAL platoons on high-risk special ops missions. But this is precisely what author Jocko Willink did. In his experiences leading a Navy SEAL platoon, Willink used a full range of leadership skills. And he noticed that these skills could also be applied to other, less dan...
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A Brief History of Thought by Luc Ferry A Philosophical Guide to Living

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What's it about? A Brief History of Thought (1996) chronicles the big moments in the history of Western philosophy in a lucid and accessible way – from the Stoicism of classical Greece right through to twentieth-century postmodernism. Not simply a description of abstract ideals, it shows how we can apply the wisdom of the world’s best thinkers to live happier and more meaningful lives. For anyone starting out with philosophy, it’s easy to get disheartened. Incomprehensible jargon, long-winded sentences and a jumble of abstract ideas often obscure precious insights into what it means to be human and how we should live our lives – like trying to admire a beautiful view through a dirty window. But these lessons offer you a sure and simple path through that morass, taking Western thought’s most complex and vital ideas and distilling them into language that everyone can understand. Starting with ancient Greek conceptions of the universe and finishing with the rise of contemporary hu...
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