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5 steps to cultivate lasting happiness in your life
Happiness is a pursuit that resonates with all of us, yet the fast-paced nature of the world often makes it challenging to attain…
On influence, attention, and consumption
I was inspired to write about the importance of curating what we consume by one of my favorite Brits, Derren Brown…
7 days of deep work
I recently read Cal Newport’s book, Deep Work, which is about reaching a state of concentration that enables you to learn hard things quickly.
The key to a fulfilling relationship
"Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly…”
How to write poetry like Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973) was a Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician who was especially known for his love poems…
Will AI replace creative writers?
A plethora of AI writing tools has populated the internet recently, causing writers to worry if their professions will be replaced…
The interconnectedness of the world and time: Insights from Siddhartha
“They were all interwoven and interlocked, entwined in a thousand ways […] All of them together was the stream of events…”
Old lessons on learning and wisdom from Siddhartha
Siddhartha is a beautifully written spiritual novel by Hermann Hesse about a Nepalese man's journey of self-discovery and search for…
A book and a beverage: Anthem and a layered latte
“I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.” - Ayn Rand
Toltec wisdom on love and the nature of life
Love underlies everything; it’s just masked by a fog of pain and fear that we’ve been conditioned to feel…
Book review: The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead (published in 1943) by Ayn Rand tells the story of Howard Roark, a talented and hardworking architect with strong convictions…
Toni Morrison on fiction’s limits & what’s worth writing
“Is it possible to make the experience and journey of faith fresh, as new and as linguistically unencumbered as it was to early…”
The paradox of chaos theory
"Before there was earth or sea or the sky that covers everything, Nature appeared the same throughout the whole world: what we call…”
Liebestraum No. 3 and the sublime
Liebestraum No. 3 is a piano piece composed by the Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt in 1850. It translates to "Dreams of Love" and is one of three…
What novelists should strive for (according to Ayn Rand)
“It was Aristotle who said that fiction is of greater philosophical importance than history, because history represents things only…”
The philosophy of love
"The parched earth loves the rain / And the high heaven, with moisture laden, loves / Earthwards to fall." - Euripides
Seneca on time
Time is invaluable: it's finite, we don't know how much of it we have and we can never get it back. Yet it's easy to forget its value.
Prometheus who changed his mind
“After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains—and he…”
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860) was an influential German philosopher who, despite providing the foundation for much of modern philosophy, died in relative obscurity.