
Nothing better will ever come to you, or indeed ever happen if you don’t read (physical books). For each time you find yourself stuck, or at another crossroads in life, books are the solution to your problem and the way to find yourself becoming unstuck. It’s a mental exercise that requires real effort, but…

“Will anything survive in roughly its current form? Probably. Experience that isn’t solely information: comedy, entertainment, storytelling, fiction, etc. You don’t ask an AI to summarize a stand-up special, and a synopsis of a great novel is not a great novel. Voice, taste, and personality may end up being the only durable moats. But…

She said thanks for doing everything. But if I’m being honest, I was deliberately being selfish. The reason why I insisted on cooking dinner, preparing kids school lunches for tomorrow, and ironing the clothes, was so between doing those things, I could read (listen to) a book and take notes while doing them. It…
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“The first draft of anything is shit.” – ERNEST HEMINGWAY. “We were all thinking the same thing: Holy shit, this guy’s gonna kill himself.” – THE RISE OF SUPERMAN, STEVEN KOTLER. a. That moment in time was the beginning. Little did I know at that time, but somehow I had an intuitive grasp that…