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1/2/2023
21 : 54
The End of Monday Musings
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Florida! This is the last edition of Monday Musings. I published my first one on March 26, 2018. Since then, I've never missed a single week,
12/31/2022
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Friday Finds (Beauty, Texting, Feynman, Swimmers, Math)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! Great literature is as effective a tool for understanding psychology as science. For example, stories like Romeo and Juliet show how people
12/26/2022
22 : 24
Monday Musings (Schools Failed by Succeeding)
Schools are a victim of their own success. They've failed us because they so throughly realized their original vision.
12/23/2022
21 : 34
Friday Finds (Gatsby, Frogs, History, Schopenhauer)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! I've just published the next lecture in the series I co-hosted about René Girard. This one shows why violence and chaos develop in
12/20/2022
2 : 4
Monday Musings (School is a Conveyor Belt)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Upstate New York! I've rented a little wooden cabin for a multi-day retreat to write about René Girard. On Friday, my interlocutor Johnathan Bi
12/13/2022
0 : 54
Monday Musings (Questions about Education)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! One my biggest surprises of 2022 was how much time I devoted to learning science. The launch of Write of Passage Liftoff (our program for
12/9/2022
21 : 14
Friday Finds (Girard, Logic, Aristotle, Trader Joe's, Media History)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from the Yucatán Peninsula! We've just wrapped up a Write of Passage team retreat where we swam in cenotes, snorkeled in the Caribbean, and visited
12/5/2022
22 : 54
Monday Musings (How We Work)
The Write of Passage approach to doing great work
12/2/2022
22 : 54
Friday Finds (Prussia, Conflict, Steve Jobs, Psychology)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! I'm off to the Yucatán Peninsula for an all-team Write of Passage retreat. We began the year as a full-time team of four. On our
11/29/2022
1 : 34
Monday Musings (The Humanity Advantage)
Walt Disney's design philosophy
11/26/2022
2 : 25
Friday Finds (Wright Brothers, Brands, BS, Direct Feedback)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from California! Having time to read is the best part of the holidays. I do a disproportionate amount of my reading between Thanksgiving and New
11/22/2022
1 : 34
Monday Musings (Society is a Big Company Now)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Let's start with a story. For three days, we covered ourselves with military camouflage and carried Remington rifles under the scorching Texas sun. We weren
11/18/2022
22 : 34
Friday Finds (Polaroid, Einstein's Dreams, Bezos, Physics, Curiosity)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! Now that our fall Write of Passage cohort is complete, I have two priorities: 1) Get back into writing every day and 2) Launching Write of
11/15/2022
0 : 54
Monday Musings (Finding Work You’re Passionate About)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Dallas! On the drive up, I had a long conversation with a friend who's making a career change. My words were jumbled in the moment, but in
11/11/2022
15 : 24
Friday Finds (GPT-3, Tradition, Priorities)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! We just wrapped up another Write of Passage cohort. As a student body, we drafted almost 1000 essays and published 463 of them, leading
11/8/2022
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Monday Musings (The Score Takes Care of Itself)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! Years ago, I met a guy working high up at Microsoft who was introduced to me as “one of the smartest people you'll ever meet.” At one
11/4/2022
23 : 24
Friday Finds (Liftoff, Steve Jobs, Girard, Research)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, When I was in high school, I hated writing. I had to write about books I'd only pretended to read, on topics I didn't care about. Writing came alive for
11/1/2022
1 : 34
Monday Musings (Spreadsheet Leadership)
What In-N-Out Burger can teach us about entrepreneurship
10/28/2022
22 : 44
Friday Finds (Hiring, Boyd, Leisure, Craft, Thought)
How we're running Write of Passage
10/25/2022
0 : 44
Monday Musings (Dreaming Like Disney)
Dreaming like Disney: A lesson from Walt Disney