Philosophy

In which I delve into one of life’s simple pleasures for a moment of sanity — They say the best things in life are free, which I find easily disputable. Nothing of value is free. Not love, nature, or family. You pay for everything eventually, with your life, in the end. …

A reading list that will inspire you to think differently — Philosophy is a moral compass to improve your life and spark radical change. As Henry David Thoreau wrote in Walden: “To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a…

In which America needs to reject populism and embrace the elitism of intellectual superiority — The American Dream is dead. It doesn’t matter that it was always an illusion. American optimism was always tied to the idea of hope, hope that tomorrow would be better than today, next year better than the one we were in. For most of the 20th century, we relied on…

Here are 4 principles and books that helped me accept my loss. They can also help you weather the storms of life. — I’ve always been somewhat of a minimalist. In my approach to work, my wardrobe, my friendships, my diet… I’m a firm believer that more is not better; quality trumps quantity every single time. But that ethos was really tested when I lost my entire life’s worth of belongings. Here’s What Happened

We are not different things; we are the same thing expressed differently. — Imagine a large gold ring rotating horizontally in the air in front of you — an image of ever-repeating circularity. As it rotates, you read a sentence engraved on its outer edge. It says … “next it is summer, then it is fall, next it is winter, then it is…

The more it turns the better the life — I once had a friend who wanted to be rich. When we went to bars and clubs, she would spin stories to the young men and women we met, about her ponies, her stables, her parents’ houses in London and Nice, how her father owned a construction company and a…