Expect to see more writing on religion and spirituality here. While crypto investment is still my current obsession, I’ve shifted that content over to Breaking Bitcoin and an email newsletter. There is tremendous wisdom and value stored in the world’s major faiths. Huston Smiths calls them the great wisdom traditions and he’s not wrong. For … Continue reading Notes from Pew study on how demographics are changing world religion
If you’d like to start your own checklist, here’s a simple template. You’ll notice that I use a green letter x in addition to a green colored cell because, from what I know, you need some content inside a cell to “count it” in Google docs. Hope it’s helpful. If you change it, improve it, … Continue reading Daily Habits Checklist (October 3 – 16)
David Brooks is my favorite big thinker, a more grounded version of Alain de Botton. A longer essay about David Brooks and his work is coming, but for this week’s edition of Nerdy Lists I want to introduce his Four Commitments. The people we admire most, Brooks says, make FOUR commitments: to family & friends, … Continue reading List #3: David Brooks and the 4 Commitments that define you: “It’s the things you chain yourself to that set you free”
As a child I loved Curious George. With my big ears I kinda looked like him, too. I’ve always been a curious person. Sometimes overly so. Here is a place to share my curiosities, mostly about HABITS and GROWTH. If a good life is like a beautiful house, then HABITS are its foundation and design, … Continue reading Habits and random stuff
Here’s an ongoing list of finished books. The below are my favorites since the March update, sorted into the order of “if I only had one month to live where would I start”. I hope you like them, too! Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marques (excerpts) Man’s Search for Meaning by … Continue reading Books I recently read: The True Believer, Darwin’s Cathedral, Battle Hymn, and more