“What can I do?” vs. “What must be done?”
What can I do? For me, and I imagine for most, it is a question that often invokes…
The value of clearly-defined goals
I have lived much of 2020 very much on my own terms. One of the second-order effects is…
Tuning our personal narratives
This idea of a personal narrative ββ the story we tell ourselves about the things we do ββ…
We are not nouns, we are verbs
“Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it. That…
The narcissism of small differences
Why is it that when we see a celebrity flaunting their wealth or success, we see it as…
The afterglow of accomplishment
There are only a handful of times in my life where I can remember feeling such an immense…
Do anything you want … but do it publicly
I have always held the belief that so long as an individual is doing something they enjoy with…
People don’t have ideas ββ ideas have people
There is an epidemic that has persisted since the dawn of civilization ββ the often crippling anxiety that comes…
Language offers only imperfect approximations of the human experience
Language is perhaps one of the most glorious evolutionary quirks of mankind, but even it has its limits.…
Writing is the fastest route to motivation
Most people think they lack motivation when they really lack clarity. Go-getters do not become so because they…