A few days ago, I read this NY Times article on resilience. It made me think about how, lately, everything seems to be about resilience or “grit”. But it also made me think that nothing has really changed. The thread on resilience is, really, the offspring of the same protestant work ethic thread that has… Read more

I have been meaning to get back to writing for a long time now. After almost two years of barely writing anything other than class essays, it feels good to take a break, sit down, think, and write. And then scrapping the whole thing and starting all over again. This last part – I have… Read more

I had been pondering for some time what the topic of the last newsletter should be. Finally, a post from the blog The Art of Manliness published yesterday seems to me like the perfect topic for this occasion: the humbling notion that there is no such thing as an ‘indispensable man’:   << Before my… Read more

Today, the newsletter is back with content from Jesús Terrés*, a writer for magazines such as GQ and Vanity Fair that I particularly enjoy and that has visited this newsletter several times already, with a small text regarding a “revised version” of the notion of carpe diem. I believe it is quite thought-provoking – is… Read more

Good morning, everyone! The newsletter is back this week with some seriously great material from Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings. This time, the topic is our own lives; our identities – and the captain to show us around will be Eudora Welty, Pulitzer-winning American author that explored this very issue on her own memoir (One writer’s… Read more

Today the Newsletter features James Clear, one of my favorite writers on habits and decision-making. What follows is an excerpt on his take on the things that are actually required for success. << For over one year, I trained with the great folks at Columbus Weightlifting.  One of our lifters, Heather, joined the team and… Read more