Messages
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
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
0 : 14
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