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My Greatest Fear (Wrestling with Faith and Fate)
"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only wishful thinking and…
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Until the Heart Catches
“Live to the point of tears.” ― Albert Camus
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Money is a Test (What Money Means)
"Everyone understands a million dollars. There's not a person in the world who does not understand a million dollars." - Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone…
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Why I Write (An Invitation)
Writing as a spiritual practice.
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November 2024

The Price of Passion (Life is like a jar of marbles)
“Does it make any sense to sit inside all day in front of a machine, making money I don’t need so I can give it to someone I don’t know?" - Leon…
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The Moment that Made Louis C.K.'s Career
“In the absence of a real and present danger, the voice of fear is an almost perfect indicator of which direction to go — as long as you head the other…
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Al Pacino and the Weight of Wealth
"There’s almost nothing worse for a famous person—there’s being dead, and then there’s being broke." -Al Pacino
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October 2024

René Girard and the Port Strike Revelation
"No one can study the human capacity for conflict realistically unless he first recognizes that he is a part of the problem." - René Girard
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☕📱Let's Chat on Zoom; Talent vs. Endurance: Haruki Murakami and Leonard Cohen
"Writing novels, to me, is basically a kind of manual labor. Writing itself is mental labor, but finishing an entire book is closer to manual labor." …
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Setbacks are Inevitable, Defeat is Optional: The Strength of Leonard Cohen
“You look around and you see a world that is impenetrable, that cannot be made sense of. You either raise your fist, or you say Hallelujah. I try to do…
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What Money Asks Of Us (The Three Money Realities)
How to transcend Maslow's Pyramid
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September 2024

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