Brain Pickings & a labour of love

Maria Popova never dreamed that her email of inspiration to a couple of friends would end being her livelihood. Today, Brainpickings is a huge repository of wisdom on the meaningful life, derived from the great thinkers in history, and of our time. With incredible depth and focus, and a stubborn refusal to simplify as is so commonly done in our social media culture, Popova curates lifelong truths and learnings for the searching intellectual reader.