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“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom” Bob Dylan Like most people, I spend too much time thinking about money. I’m not attracted to the social prestige that comes with money, but I believe that the ultimate thing money can buy you is freedom. […]

“Your brain is most intelligent when you don’t instruct it on what to do – something people who take showers discover on occasion.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb – The Bed of Procrustes Sometimes slowing down is the weapon to charge ahead. Writer Ryan Holiday refers to this idea as “stillness”. Holiday wrote a book called Stillness

“Silence and solitude are crucial. Our modern world of push notifications, 24/7 cycles, and constant contact is almost completely inhospitable to the kind of retreat artists must have in order to focus deeply on their work.” Austin Kleon – Keep Going To be productive, you need to disconnect from technology. You need what Austin Kleon

“The best strategy I’ve come across is the idea of a wide funnel and tight filter. Be willing to read anything that looks even a little interesting, but abandon it quickly and without mercy if it’s not working for you.” Morgan Housel I recently listened to The Knowledge Project podcast. In it, Morgan Housel (author

“The barriers are self-imposed. If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don’t need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it. We slept on floors.

Lately, I’ve been on a reading slump. I feel somewhat disillusioned with most nonfiction books. Most of the books I start, I never finish. As someone whose identity revolves around reading books and writing articles based on them, I’ve been experiencing some sort of identity crisis. Reading is one of the greatest gifts and one

In The War of Art, Steven Pressfield describes what finishing his first manuscript was like. The author says “But that moment when I first hit the keys to spell out THE END was epochal. I remember rolling the last page out and adding it to the stack that was the finished manuscript. Nobody knew I

In What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Murakami compiles essays about the power of habits and how they influenced his writing.