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In no time at all, LEGO 2K Drive became the video game of the summer in our household. I'd added it to my library thank to PlayStation Plus some time back, but kept putting off playing it for one reason or another. Then out of the blue I received notice that the game's servers would soon be shutdown, meaning that its online multiplayer to be wound up in due course. Ordinarily this wouldn't have…
Everyone wants to be successful. No one wants to go through life as a failure. Success is a journey, not a destination. Do not confuse your wins and achievements with being successful. Do not conclude that just because you have made mistakes or stumbles that you can never be successful. Do not confuse luck with success. Success is the product of your mindset, your habits, and choices. You are what…
The main argument put forward by Jack Raines in his book Young Money was that young people should live their lives in such a way as to maximize "intentionality" precisely because there is value to being young. Certainly, that advice may not be for everyone or may need to be taken with a grain of salt. For my part, however, I stepped away from the book intrigued by the very concept of…
As a mid-career man approaching late middle-age, I am clearly not the target demographic for Young Money , a book that then-twenty-eight-year-old author Jack Raines describes as "really a letter to my twenty-three-year-old self…unpacking the uncertainties of a young person's personal and professional journey through their twenties." Indeed, I'm well past that stage of my life and have no real…
As I was reading The Unaccountability Machine it struck me that author Dan Davies comes across as akin to Archilochus' proverbial hedgehog (i.e., the one with the single big idea). Indeed, the book has all the energy of a man who realizes that he's decoded the secret to understanding the world and, thus burdened with such knowledge, is possessed by the desire to share that knowledge with anyone…
Can you have it all? Why, yes. You can, indeed. But it will depend on how you define your “all.” So the essential question isn’t really, “Can I have it all?” Instead, the question you should be asking is, “What is my ‘all?’” as well as, “Why’s it important for me to have it?” Answer those questions, and you will have made a meaningful step towards having it all.
When I picked up Kusunagi Ryushun's The Practice of Not Reacting: Zen Wisdom for a Happy LIfe , I assumed that it was being figurative about the "Zen wisdom" it sought to impart. Certainly the title caught my eye--because who wouldn't want to have a little more self-control in the face of difficulties, right?--and so I thought that if I could learn a thing or two how to be a little more Zen when…
Something that's been on my mind: At a high enough level of abstraction everything appears to be the same. On the other hand, at a high enough level of detail everything appears to be different. Strangely, however, this appears to be true for anything along the same spectrum. Yes, at the end of the day, we're all atoms. But even atoms are different. Et cetera . Or to put it differently: So we're…
When people abuse our kindness, it’s only natural to respond by being a little less kind. Or a lot, even. “Never again!” we might tell ourselves, foreswearing the possibility that someone may once more play us for the chump or the patsy again in the future. All things considered, it’s perfectly normal. But also maybe a little bit wrong (or a lot, even). Because a lot of the time, when people abuse…
What I used to love about X when it was still Twitter (or before it became toxic) was the serendipity of discovering and learning from interesting people or people with interesting ideas. That's how I first came to know of Naval Ravikant, often mononymously referred to simply as "Naval." Some time back, I noticed that his posts were being shared by accounts that I followed, and thus I came to…
