Book #3 changed the way my mind worked forever — I experience mixed feelings whenever someone recommends a book or a song that came out years ago and which I’m just discovering now. One part of me is grateful for the recommendation, but another part of me says, “This came out years ago and I’m only just discovering it now?!” …

How I did it, what it felt like, and what I’d go back and tell myself to make myself a lot happier Earlier today, I made a $5,000 down payment on a first generation Porsche Boxster, and it was a semi-viral article on Medium in late 2020 that made it…

Thousands of people trust me to bring them the absolute best book recommendations I can each week. To do that, I go through the list of 1,000+ books that I’ve read and pick out the most unforgettable reads that have stood the test of time. But there’s only so much…

Myth: The greatest and most effective writers start with a blank page I don’t believe in keeping people waiting when instead I could just give them the answers they’re looking for, so I’ll just tell you up front that my process relies heavily on using everything I encounter as material…

I feel like I just discovered a new planet, or a comet or something! As great as it feels to find a new favorite author who’s still around and producing great work, it’s also kinda distressing, when you consider how many phenomenal authors are working right now in obscurity, and…

Everything is a gigantic, cosmic mystery, and we’re all just figuring it out as we go along, together. — “Conscious ignorance, if you can practice it, expands your world; it can make things infinite.” -Nassim Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes Reading a lot of books doesn’t actually make you smarter. Really, all it does is make you more painfully aware of all that you don’t yet know. By the…

Thousands of people trust me to bring them the absolute best book recommendations I can each week. To do that, I go through the list of 1,000+ books that I’ve read and pick out the most unforgettable reads that have stood the test of time. But there’s only so much…

Time is what your life is made of — it’s the water that you’re swimming in, and it’s the fire that consumes you (I stole that last part from Jorge Luis Borges). Anyway, the full quote goes something like, “time is the river that carries me along, but I am…

Even if something’s not technically your “fault,” it’s still your responsibility to handle it. That’s it. That’s the mindset shift. It’s also exceptionally rare to see someone take that kind of radical accountability for their own lives, actions, and results. …