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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
2/24/2023
23 : 34
Friday Finds (Enneagram, Colleges, Waitzkin, Learning, Morality)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Columbia, Missouri! We're making moves at Write of Passage, and I have a couple updates to share with you this week. First, we've partnered
2/17/2023
21 : 34
Friday Finds (Genius, Music, Cucinelli, History, Tiger Woods)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! I've been using Frank Slootman's management triad every day: increase the tempo, raise the standards, and narrow your focus.
2/10/2023
21 : 45
Friday Finds (Freud, Software, Marx, Amp It Up)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! Running Write of Passage has me doing more private writing than ever before. I want to publish this writing whenever possible. Up first is
2/4/2023
0 : 14
Friday Finds (Stoned Apes, Gardens, Hiring, Management)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, I wrote like a maniac in January, so I have two long-form pieces to share with you soon. I'm exploring new ground with my writing. I've become totally
1/27/2023
23 : 24
Friday Finds (Bradbury, Religion, Museums, Hiring)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Detroit! I'm writing today's Finds on a layover in Detroit after hanging with the Write of Passage marketing team in Ohio. I'm honestly
1/20/2023
22 : 54
Friday Finds (My Annual Review, Taste, Amazon, Oil, Leadership, Goodhart's Law)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, I'm finally ready to share my Annual Review with you! These reviews are an emotional odyssey every year because they simultaneously allow me to celebrate my
1/20/2023
4 : 44
Friday Finds (Hiring, Facebook, Fiction, Concrete, Bible)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! I planned to share my Annual Review with you today, but got caught up in Write of Passage hubbub of what was one of the hardest weeks I
1/6/2023
23 : 34
Friday Finds (Stocks, Kanye, Plato, Family)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! I sent my final Monday Musings newsletter this week, which marks the end of an era in my writing career. I'll continue to prioritize