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“Challenges are what makes life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” -Joshua J. Marine “When life gets tough, some of us feel that we’ve lost the game and life has won. But life isn’t trying to defeat you. Life isn’t even a participant—the game is yours.” -Mo Gawdat, Solve for Happy “YourContinue reading “Hard Today. Easy Tomorrow”

“The quality of your questions determines the quality of your life.” -Tim Ferriss “With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter of the race is ended. Its summer has begun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis. The heavens areContinue reading “Annual Review”

I had a goal to read or see 100 plays this year. I fell a bit short at 70. Still, not bad. If you want to read or see more plays in 2025, then I have two amazing resources for you! The first is our Vs. Tuesday Night Reading Series. We read a play everyContinue reading “Favorite Plays Of 2024”

So I fell woefully short of my goal to read 24 books this year. I read 13. That’s the second year in a row I didn’t make goal, so I’ll scale back my 2025 goal to 18. The good news is that almost every book I read this year was terrific. Quality over quantity, right?Continue reading “Favorite Books Of 2024”

Like films, my goal was to listen to 100 albums in 2024. I listened to 112. My rule is that I have to listen to the entire album at least two times straight through. And I try to make listening to the album my sole focus. Not just background music. Inevitably, many of the albumsContinue reading “Favorite Albums Of 2024”

“In my whole life I’ve never been good at something I wasn’t very interested in. It just doesn’t work. There’s no substitute for strong interest.”— Charlie Munger “Mastery is the best goal because the rich can’t buy it, the impatient can’t rush it, the privileged can’t inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You canContinue reading “Love and Excellence”

Per my meaningful consumption practice, I try to log all the films, plays, albums, and books I consume in a year. It only takes a few minutes each day and doing so provides a nice look back at the end of the year. In 2024, I saw 128 films (my goal was 100). I preferContinue reading “Favorite Films I Saw In 2024”

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” -Joseph Campbell “If you’re not feeling those butterflies, you’re not taking a big enough risk.” -Ray Manzarek “Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true…If you want the ultimate, you’ve got to be willing to pay the ultimate price.”Continue reading “Feelin’ Alive”

“Make before you manage.” -Tim Ferriss “Make movies. Not meetings.” -Mark Duplass “I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.” -Paul Graham “Remember that whateverContinue reading “More Making”

“After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.” -last sentence of A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway “I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass;Continue reading “Finish Strong”