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8/23/2023
14 : 4
Monday Musings (Big, Big Day)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Big news to share: Today, I'm launching my new podcast called How I Write. I started working on it in September of 2021, and almost two years later, it's
8/19/2023
2 : 44
Friday Finds (Daft Punk, Materialism, Memory, Science)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, It's been one of those weeks where I'm huffing and puffing my way into the weekend. Why so busy? I'm putting the final touches on an essay about GPT,
8/14/2023
10 : 55
Friday Finds (Spengler, Musk, Adams, Disney, McLuhan)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Big stuff coming for you: I just saw the first cut of a 12-minute film I'm working on; the next Write of Passage cohort starts in 7 weeks; I finished a draft
8/4/2023
15 : 34
Friday Finds (Travel, Texts, Messi, Machiavelli)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Hello from Northern Italy. I'm here on a writing retreat and working on an essay called "Why I Travel." I've long believed that travel is one of
7/28/2023
19 : 24
Friday Finds (Florence, Art, Twitter, Books, Writing)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends! I've spent the week in Florence studying the foundations of the Renaissance. By traveling with a theme, I center my focus and speed up my learning. GPT has
7/21/2023
21 : 34
Friday Finds (Books, GPT, Philosophy, History, Google)
Reading for volume is a fool's choice. Better to pick fewer books and give them more of your attention.
7/16/2023
13 : 24
Friday Finds (Focus, Travel, 7 Powers, Capitalism)
Don't just create To-Do lists. Create To-Don't lists too.
7/8/2023
1 : 34
Friday Finds (GPT, Inflation, Elites, Nassim Taleb)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, ChatGPT has basically replaced Google for me. It's where I go whenever I have a question, and last night, I spent a few hours in conversation with it. One
7/1/2023
1 : 55
Friday Finds (Floods, Beatles, Startups, Culture, Sleep)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, I attended a lecture at the University of Austin today, where I was struck by the professor's closing argument. The modern world is plagued by a perpetual
6/23/2023
22 : 34
Friday Finds (Prestige, Economics, Architecture, School)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, A few months ago, I made the decision to move from a Operator CEO to Creator CEO at Write of Passage so I could focus more on writing. It took a few months to
6/20/2023
5 : 45
Friday Finds (School, Sports, Tim Ferriss, Bible)
The Stupid Test: Whenever you're trying to solve a problem, ask yourself: "What am I missing because it feels too stupid?"
6/12/2023
2 : 6
Friday Finds (Magic, Music, Text, Tocqueville, Brands)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, I've been sharing short videos on Twitter and the one I published this week about surrendering to your nature is my most popular one yet. When I look around,
6/3/2023
1 : 4
Friday Finds (Airplanes, Art, Fame, Conversion)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, I recently went back into the archives to see what I wrote about in the early days, and in the eight years since I published my first article, the most consistent
5/26/2023
22 : 45
Friday Finds (Mysteries, China, Consumerism, Tocqueville, Sprints)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, We just wrapped up our 10th cohort of Write of Passage, which means summer is officially here. My schedule is almost entirely empty for the next few months, so I
5/19/2023
23 : 14
Friday Finds (Tim Keller)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, I'm writing with a heavy heart because one of my favorite writers, Tim Keller, passed away today. The history and theology of Christianity has been my number
5/13/2023
0 : 4
Friday Finds (News, Media, Snobbery, Time)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, My mission with Friday Finds is to share links that help you escape the news cycle & the hum-drum of what everybody's talking about right now. The
5/5/2023
21 : 47
Friday Finds (Music, Burial, Advice, Interiors, Machines)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! Weekend plans canceled. It's time to write. I've been pretty frustrated with my writing output in the past year, and I've
4/29/2023
0 : 44
Friday Finds (Nietzsche, Keller, Words, Relationships)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! Warning: I went a little crazy with today's Friday Finds. At Write of Passage, I've been transitioning from an Operating CEO
4/21/2023
22 : 25
Friday Finds (Creators, Culture, Toyota, Augustine)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, At Write of Passage, we have a saying: "Free time is nuclear fusion for creativity." Elevating the quality and quantity of my writing is my top priority
4/20/2023
13 : 54
David's Musings (Where the Liberal Arts Went Wrong)
What's the purpose of education?