Have you ever reached an important goal, something you had to work toward for a long time?If so, what was it? How did you accomplish it? And how did you feel after?A recent article in the Well section is about how it’s normal to feel a little lost after an accomplishment. As the piece puts…

What roles do sound and silence play in our lives? “Sanctuaries of Silence” is a seven-minute 360-video that touches on themes of nature, listening and the power of silence. It profiles Gordon Hempton, an acoustic ecologist, as he travels from noisy city streets to the Hoh Rain Forest in western Washington State in search of…

How do you feel about Valentine’s Day? Do you look forward to the opportunity to express your love — or do you despise the forced sentimentality of the holiday? Why? How, if at all, do you plan to celebrate Valentine’s Day this year? In “Against Romance: An Un-Valentine,” Judith Hertog writes about why she prefers…

Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…

Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…

The word relegate has appeared in 23 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on April 5 in “Why It’s Better to Plant Wild Greens Than to Forage for Them” by Margaret Roach:Jared Rosenbaum knows the primal thrill of foraging — a sense of interdependence with the natural world that he wants his son…