Book Review: Tribes by Seth Godin

I’ve been reading Seth Godin’s blog for several days now, after following a link from The Simple Dollar. As I’m short on cash right now, and wanted to read at least one of his books, I took advantage of the free offer that Audible has going for the audiobook. Godin talks about the complete failure [...]

1247

I listened to 1247 today. It wasn’t easy for me to – I’ve been concocting reasons to avoid going over it for the past few days. I felt very anxious when I started hearing myself speak and wanted to shut it off. I found myself very irritated by my breathing into the microphone, noticing that [...]

Book Review – Achieving Freedom: Part One – How Not to Achieve Freedom

I wrote a brief preview of How Not to Achieve Freedom by Stefan Molyneux last week, if you’d like to read a summary of the work. In the interest of full disclosure, I helped to edit the text version.
The release of this book is unusually timely. People of every ideological persuasion around the world are [...]

Honesty is Never Boring

Honesty is never boring.
Yes, there are many things that suck about committing to honesty in your major relationships – namely the steep initial cost, the palpable struggle that raises you above the crowd.
As I’ve had more success in this area, I’ve found that fewer and fewer of my conversations with people are boring. In fact, [...]

FDR1168

I spoke for an extended period on the Freedomain Radio Sunday Show today with Stefan Molyneux about my struggles with writing, misplaced ambition and self-attack. I’m feeling less tension now, although I am both more anxious and more curious as to what my future will hold.