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6/3/2023
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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
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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?
4/19/2023
6 : 4
Friday Finds (Steve Jobs, Masters, Uniqlo, Economics)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! With Write of Passage beginning next week, I'm back in town for a little while to focus on teaching and writing. Also, I've been on
4/19/2023
5 : 23
I Hate Writing (And So Will You)
Spicy title, I know.
4/10/2023
15 : 14
David's Musings (Ambitious People Need Ambitious Peers)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, I spent the weekend at The Masters golf tournament, which is certifiably the best sporting event I've ever been to. And it's not just because of the golf.
4/8/2023
0 : 14
Friday Finds (Golf, Time, Bezos, Architecture)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Augusta, Georgia! I will never turn down a trip to The Masters. The tournament is exactly what you'd end up with if you had ridiculously high
4/3/2023
19 : 14
David's Musings (What's Your Nature?)
Life on the other side of surrender
3/31/2023
20 : 4
Friday Finds (Dreams, Math, Listening, Horses, Goals)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Cape Town, South Africa! Travel teaches you as much about your home as the place you're actually visiting. Every time I go abroad, I see just
3/30/2023
21 : 24
David's Musings (Learning to Actually Listen)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, You had me yesterday and now you have me again today because my creative spirit is rip-roaring, and I feel like being prolific for a little while. (Here's
3/29/2023
18 : 54
David’s Musings (I’m Back, Baby)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Remember me? Well, my name is David — that curious (and hopefully insightful) Internet guy you used to receive emails from every Monday before he disappeared for
3/24/2023
21 : 44
Friday Finds (McLuhan, Marketing, Sitcoms, and Hobby Tribes)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! The 10th cohort of Write of Passage is now open for enrollment and we're back with an all-new curriculum. Fondly referred to as Cohort
3/17/2023
21 : 34
Friday Finds (Scruton, Noise, Zuckerberg, Management, Compression)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! We're exactly one month away from our next Write of Passage cohort, and after talking to all 39 people who are leading it today, I'
3/10/2023
21 : 54
Friday Finds (Podcast, Propaganda, Hollywood, Bezos, Innovation)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from 40000 feet. I'm heading home to Austin after a week recording interviews in Washington DC and New York for a new podcast I'm launching
3/3/2023
20 : 45
Friday Finds (Mean Girls, Durant, Algorithms, Sermons, Airlines)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! I've been heads down building Write of Passage for the past year, and now that our basic systems and company infrastructure are in