Aristotle & Virtues

“Moral virtues, like crafts, are acquired by practice and habituation.” Practice is essential to anything we want to achieve. One won’t make the game winning shot if they only take free throws the night before the game.

Aristotle & Happiness (Book 1)

Book One of Ethics begins with “Every rational activity aims at some end or good.” Aristotle goes on to explain that if we don’t have goals, then our day-to-day activity is pointless.

What Kanye & George Washington Have In Common

The Obstacle is the Way: Ryan Holiday

“Nations are born stoic and die epicurean – Will Durant.”

1000 hours of sunset (free verse)

It’s summer,

Our home in solar space is facing the sun.

It’s 6 weeks till I start college,

4 hours till my plane reaches your city,

About Me

I like a lot of things

L

Cheers,

10 Lessons From the Billionaire Taking Us to Mars

Elon Musk: by Ashlee Vance

1. As a kid, he’d read a book or two a day on the subjects he loves. This is a good habit. For example, he knew nothing about space travel before SpaceX, so he read a shedload…

train poem

I write this on the train back home,

I’m tired & so are you.

I never imagined I’d see perfection,

It’s always been that one thing that won’t grow or is too far away like a distant galaxy

How To See Into the Future

The Selfish Gene: Richard Dawkins

The World Is Yours

Nature Via Nurture: Matt Ridley

We have more control over our genes than we think. We all know that we inherit our genes from our parents. They determine some fixed things like our potential height, eye colour, hair texture, skin colour etc. – and…