Weekly Open Thread and Digest

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In Case You Missed It—Last Week's Articles:

1. How I Failed at What Mattered Most, The Age of Warnings is Over, and Leadership in the 21st Century

2. Reflections on My Biggest Failure, How to Change a Paradigm, Plus, The Economy’s Even More Broken Than We Thought (And How It’s Going to Shape The Election)

3. The Question of Happiness in an Age of Extinction, The Purpose of Sorrow, and Transforming Ourselves and Our Civilization

4. A Manifesto for Leadership in the 21st Century

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