Review: The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks— What makes us who we are, And understanding the power of the unconscious mind
David Brooks’s The Social Animal is a book about how we become who we are, both consciously and unconsciously. It’s about how we grow up, how our relationships influence us, how we make decisions and how much control those decision have over our lives, how we learn,...
Review: Zero to One by Peter Thiel (with Blake Masters)— Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Let me start by simply saying this may well be the most important book I have read in years. According to Mr. Thiel, the future of our planet—the positive, growth future, not one that ends in nuclear apocalypse, gets wiped out by some strain of super flu, or some...
Here Be Dragons
You’ve probably heard the story before. Ancient mapmakers painted in mountains, rivers, bodies of water, and all that they knew on their maps, but the information was always limited. At some point there would be lands or waters beyond which they had no idea what they...Read moreThe practice and habit of writing
not only drain the mind
but supply it too.—William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White
Read moreWrite. Start writing today. Start writing right now. Don’t write it right, just write it—and then make it right later. Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one. Be wary of “writing rules” and advice. Do it your way.
―Tara Moss
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