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2026 26

  1. This is Literally The Least You Can Do (But It Means A Lot)
  2. 10 Lessons It Took Me 10 Years To Understand
  3. Why I Ran A 50K Through Rome Alone (And What It Taught Me)
  4. If You’re Trying To Do This Fast, You’re Doing It Wrong
  5. I’m Sorry But There’s No Shortcut for This (And That’s a Good Thing)
  6. This Makes Life Richer, Stranger, And More Interesting (And It’s Basically Free)
  7. This Won’t Solve All Your Problems (Just Most of Them)
  8. The Discipline Required To Create The Life You Want
  9. For Nearly 2,000 Years, This Is Who People Have Turned To When Life Gets Hard
  10. This Is Why We Opened A Banned Books Library (In Rural Texas)
  11. The 16 Perfectly Reachable Habits That Made Me Who I Am
  12. This Is Always Worth All The Trouble (Or So I Tell Myself)
  13. 39 (Or So) Lessons On The Way To 39
  14. This Is Something You Have To Get Good At
  15. My Office Explained in 13 Objects
  16. The Question I Ask Myself At The End of Every Day
  17. This Is The Most Important Skill You Can Have In Life
  18. 20 Years Ago, I Spent $8 on This. My Life Was Never The Same.
  19. This Is Something You Should Always Carry With You
  20. 5 Years of Lessons From Running My Own Bookstore
  21. The Diet That Is Making You Miserable
  22. You Slipped Up. Here’s How To Get Back On Track
  23. Are You Noticing This?
  24. 26 Rules to Be a Better Thinker in 2026
  25. This Is Why You Have To Care (I Can’t Believe I’m Having To Write This Again)
  26. I’ve Done This Every Day for Nine Years. It Changed My Life.

2025 38

  1. You Should Do Something Really, Really Hard This Year
  2. What You Should Actually Focus On In 2026 (Everything Else Is Noise)
  3. The Secret To Better Habits In 2026
  4. These Are My Reading Rules For 2026
  5. How To Be Grateful…For Everything (Even the Tough Stuff)
  6. You’re Gonna Need This Now More Than Ever
  7. The Simplest Way To Feel Better In Terrible Times
  8. I Stopped Caring About Results (And Started Getting Them)
  9. What You Work On Works On You (This is What The Last 6 Years of My Life Have Been)
  10. Without This, You’ll Never Reach Your Potential
  11. Do You Know How To Do A Deep Dive?
  12. This Hobby Can Change Your Life
  13. We Must Not Devolve Into This (Or We Risk 2,500 Years of Progress)
  14. You Must Avoid Getting Corrupted By This
  15. The World Lost a Great Man (and my friend) But His Legacy Lives On…
  16. Why I Ran A Solo Race From Marathon To Athens (And What It Taught Me)
  17. You Can Choose To Be Great, But Not What You’re Great At
  18. You Need This Now More Than Ever
  19. This Is A Lesson I Hope To Pass Down
  20. Everything (And I Really Mean Everything) Is A Chance To Do This
  21. 37 Lessons From The Birthplace Of Stoicism
  22. 34 Lessons From Writing Every Day for Two Decades
  23. 38 (Or So) Lessons On The Way To 38
  24. You Are What You Won’t Do For Money
  25. This Is Something I’ve Turned To Over and Over Again When The World Seems Dark
  26. These Are All The Ways I Feel Poorer Than I Am
  27. This Is How Smart People Get Smart (And Fools Get More Foolish)
  28. 100 (More) Lessons From 100 (More) Reads of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  29. These Are Leadership Ideas I Try To Apply Every Day
  30. 4 Years Of Lessons From Running My Own Bookstore
  31. This Is Something I Am Forever Grateful For
  32. How I’m Decluttering My Life This Spring
  33. 21 Powerful Life Lessons From My Mentor (George Raveling)
  34. The Fascinating Power Of Human Wormholes
  35. Here’s How I’m Preparing For The Next Four Years
  36. If You Only Read A Few Books In 2025, Read These
  37. This Habit Is Making You Miserable (And Driving You Insane)
  38. This Is What I Learned From One of My Heroes

2024 27

  1. The Secret To Better Habits In 2025
  2. This is My Most Expensive Habit
  3. The (Very) Best Books I Read In 2024
  4. This Is What (Stoic) Gratitude Actually Looks Like
  5. This Is The Most Important Thing For These Crazy Times
  6. 29 Lessons From 150 Million Podcast Downloads
  7. Everything I Learned From Iron Maiden About Life
  8. This Is Why I Don’t Have Goals (And What To Do Instead)
  9. The Hobby That Changed My Life
  10. Please Don’t Do This To Yourself
  11. Always Try To Do It The Hard Way
  12. You Don’t Have To Be Lucky, You Just Have To Be Good
  13. This Is Why You Don’t Want To Tell Yourself Stories
  14. This Is The Secret To Sanity And Success
  15. 37 (Or So) Lessons From A 37 Year Old
  16. This Is What You Belong To
  17. Character Is Fate: 10 Habits That Will Help You To Live And Be Better
  18. This is the Best Career (Life) Advice I Ever Got
  19. This is The Accomplishment That Matters Most
  20. This is The Only Way (I Know Of) To Travel Through Time
  21. You Need This Practice In Your Life
  22. You Can’t Succeed In Life Without This Skill
  23. What To Think About When You Think About Spring
  24. The Indiscipline Of Overwork
  25. 37 Pieces of Career Advice I Wish I’d Known Earlier
  26. If You Only Read A Few Books In 2024, Read These
  27. The (Very) Best Books I Read In 2023

2023 24

  1. This is the Word I’m Trying to Live By This Year
  2. How To Have Better Habits in 2024
  3. This is Your Reminder to Say ‘NO’
  4. The Longer I Do This, The Less I Care About Results
  5. 27 Things I’ve Learned From 150 Million Podcast Downloads
  6. 12 Lessons From 7 Years Of The Daily Stoic
  7. These 14 Small Mindset Shifts Will Change Your Life
  8. 24 Leadership Principles From The Greatest Business, Military, Political and Sports Leaders
  9. These 38 Reading Rules Changed My Life
  10. No You Can’t Have It All (Especially as a Parent)
  11. What To Do When War, Climate Change, And Other Global Threats Inevitably Hit Your Startup
  12. 24 Things I Wish I Had Done Sooner (or my biggest regrets)
  13. It Always Takes Longer Than You Expect (Even When You Take This Into Account)
  14. 36 Lessons on the Way to 36 Years Old
  15. 31 Lessons I’ve Learned About Money
  16. This Is Why You Can’t Wait Until Later
  17. When You’re Too Busy Aiming For It, You Miss The Moments In Front Of You
  18. 15 Questions That Will Make You A Better Parent (and Person)
  19. 2 Years Of Lessons From Running My Own Bookstore
  20. This Decision Changed My Life and My Business
  21. 19 Rules For A Better Life (From Marcus Aurelius)
  22. 11 Important Things I’m Thinking About In 2023
  23. 20 Best Lessons From Interviewing Today’s Top Performers
  24. If You Only Read A Few Books In 2023, Read These

2022 26

  1. All Success Is A Lagging Indicator
  2. The Secret To Better Habits in 2023
  3. Why A Stoic Wakes Up Early
  4. The (Very) Best Books I Read In 2022
  5. If You Want to Be Smart, You Must Do This
  6. Can You Be Grateful Even For This?
  7. How The Struggles Of Opening A Small Town Bookstore Made Me A Better Writer
  8. If You Try To Do Everything, You Won’t Do Anything
  9. The Secret To Avoiding Burnout
  10. This is the Most Important Decision of Your Life
  11. Discipline is Destiny: 25 Habits That Will Guarantee You Success
  12. 12 Extraordinary Stoic Moments
  13. Why I Pick up Trash at the Beach
  14. This Is The Best Career Decision You Can Possibly Make
  15. The Things You Think Matter…Don’t
  16. The Best Parenting Advice I’ve Ever Gotten
  17. 35 Lessons on the Way to 35 Years Old
  18. 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Marcus Aurelius
  19. 13 Strategies That Will Make You A Better Reader (And Person)
  20. 18 Little Stories That Will Have Massive Impact On Your Life
  21. Here’s Your Secret To Success: Go The F*ck To Sleep
  22. 29 Lessons From Owning A Bookstore
  23. You Actually Should Do Something That Scares You Every Day
  24. Life Is Up To You: 8 Choices That Will Make Your Life Better
  25. Our Country is Filled with Problems; Reading Too Many Books Isn’t One of Them
  26. If You Only Read a Few Books in 2022, Read These

2021 31

  1. The Secret To Better Habits in 2022
  2. The (Very) Best Books I Read In 2021
  3. 32 Things I Love to Read, Listen to, Eat, and Carry With Me
  4. One Day Of Thanks Is Not Enough: Gratitude is a Daily Practice
  5. Work, Family, Scene: You Can Only Pick Two
  6. This Was The (Craziest) But Best Decision We Ever Made
  7. How the Pandemic Changed Me as a Parent
  8. 15 Ways To Overcome The Fear That’s Killing Your Potential
  9. This Little Decision Changed The Course of My Career
  10. Life Happens in Public. Get Used to It.
  11. The Perfect Day Begins with a Good Evening (or My Night Time Routine)
  12. These Are 23 Great Rules To Be A Productive Creative
  13. Why We Need a Statue of Responsibility
  14. Believing In Yourself is Overrated. This is Better.
  15. This is The Real Plague To Avoid
  16. 18 Things I Stole From Some of History’s Greatest Leaders
  17. Everything You Say Yes To Is Saying No To Something Else
  18. Don’t Go To Business School. Read These 18 Books Instead
  19. 34 Mistakes on the Way to 34 Years Old
  20. 50 (Short) Rules For Life From The Stoics
  21. Opening a Small-Town Bookstore During the Pandemic Was the Craziest Thing We Ever Did
  22. Life Is About What We Can Do For Each Other
  23. This Is the Test to Apply to Everything
  24. This Is the Secret to Business and Artistic Success
  25. A Practical Philosophy Reading List: A Few Books You Can Actually Use in Real Life
  26. 100 (Short) Rules for a Better Life
  27. Fight to Be Who Philosophy Wants You to Be
  28. How to Read More: 8 Reasons and 7 Strategies to Read More Books
  29. Now Is the Time to Have a Civic Backbone
  30. If You Only Read a Few Books in 2021, Read These
  31. From America’s Oldest Veteran, Here Are 9 Lessons On Living

2020 55

  1. The Secret to Better Habits in 2021
  2. The (Very) Best Books I Read in 2020
  3. There Is No Such Thing as Normal— So Stop Waiting for It
  4. 25 Things I’ve Learned From a Decade of Podcasts
  5. This Is the Real Virus to Fear
  6. Here’s How to Give Thanks—Not Once a Year—but Every Day
  7. This Is Why Our Leaders Should Be Stoic
  8. It’s Not About Intention, It’s About Action
  9. Should We Cancel the Stoics?
  10. Dear Dad, Please Don’t Vote For Donald Trump This Time
  11. This Thing Predicts Everything
  12. It’s the Little Moments That Make the Big Lessons
  13. These 7 Lessons Will Make You Better
  14. It Costs What It Costs
  15. Moderation Is the Highest Form of Greatness. Here’s Why.
  16. 10 Ways to Find Stillness in Turbulent Times
  17. Welcome to Life. There Are Only Hard Facts and Harder Decisions.
  18. 10 Books That Will Blow Your Mind
  19. 9 Short Quotes That Changed My Life and Why
  20. How to Have the Best Week Ever
  21. It’s Not About Routine, but About Practice
  22. The Best Career Advice I’ve Ever Gotten
  23. If You’re Not Seeking Out Challenges, How Are You Going to Get Better?
  24. Every Situation Has Two Handles. Which One Will You Grab?
  25. The Definition of Success Is Autonomy
  26. You Must Live an Interesting Life
  27. 13 Lessons Marcus Aurelius Learned From His Father
  28. 33 Things I Stole From People Smarter Than Me on the Way to 33
  29. It’s Always the Time to Act Bravely
  30. This Is Why You Have to Care
  31. How Marcus Aurelius Conquered Stress (and the Rest of Us Can Too)
  32. Can You Be Still?
  33. You Must Stare This Scary Fact in the Face.
  34. This Is What a Good Day Looks Like–According to Marcus Aurelius
  35. Life Comes at You Fast. So You Better Be Ready.
  36. All You Need Are a Few Small Wins Every Day
  37. The Important Thing Is to Not Be Afraid
  38. Will You Choose Alive Time Or Dead Time?
  39. How To Recover When The World Breaks You
  40. Here’s Some Stuff Worth Carrying With You Everywhere
  41. This Question Will Change Your (Reading) Life
  42. There’s No Such Thing as ‘Quality’ Time
  43. How Does It Feel To Get Everything You Ever Wanted?
  44. Take A Walk: The Work & Life Benefits of Walking
  45. Do Yourself a Favor Today… and Go For a Walk
  46. You Could Have Today. Instead You Choose Tomorrow.
  47. This Is What You Should Read Every Day
  48. How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything
  49. It’s Not Enough to Be Right—You Also Have to Be Kind
  50. A Radical Guide to Spending Less Time on Your Phone
  51. The (Very) Best Books I Read in 2019
  52. What Are Your Rules for Life? These 11 Expressions (from Ancient History) Might Help
  53. Your Work Is the Only Thing That Matters
  54. How To Digest Books Above Your “Level” And Increase Your Intelligence
  55. 21 Quotes That (If Applied) Change You Into a Better Person

2019 8

  1. How to Develop Better Habits in 2020
  2. Here’s How To Give Thanks—Not Once A Year—But Every Day
  3. How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything
  4. How To Recover When The World Breaks You
  5. What Ego Edges Out…
  6. This Strategy Is The Key To Every Victory
  7. Why Everybody Needs An Inner Citadel
  8. “The First Draft of Anything Is Shit”

2018 13

  1. The (Very) Best Books I Read in 2018
  2. Here’s How You Stop Anger From Making You Do Something Stupid
  3. How Your Daily Routine Can Turn Into Your Biggest Enemy
  4. The Most Successful People Are The Ones You’ve Never Heard Of (And Why They Want It That Way)
  5. 13 Life-Changing Habits To Try And Do Every Single Day
  6. Here’s The Technique That Ambitious People Use To Get What They Want
  7. 25 Ways To Kill The Toxic Ego That Will Ruin Your Life
  8. A Stoic Guide To Navigating The Modern Workplace
  9. To Everyone Who Asks For ‘Just A Little’ Of Your Time: Here’s What It Costs To Say Yes
  10. 14 Ways To Make Journaling One Of The Best Things You Do In 2018
  11. 42 Books That Will Make You A Better Person (Each Described In 1 Sentence)
  12. 40 Ways To Live A Full Life (And Leave Nothing On The Table) By Age 30
  13. Seriously, You—Ok, We—Need To Stop Watching The News This Year

2017 12

  1. The Unstoppable Power of Greeting It All With A Smile
  2. The (Very) Best Books I Read In 2017
  3. This Is The Most Important Thing You Can Do Each Morning
  4. Here’s the Most Important Career (and Life) Asset You Can Develop
  5. What is a ‘Perennial Seller’ and Why Do They Matter?
  6. A Leadership Lesson From Eisenhower’s Stoic Reversal at D-Day
  7. 36 Books Every Young and Wildly Ambitious Person Should Read
  8. Loving Los Angeles: 36 Books To Help You Finally “Get” LA
  9. Meet Your Worst Enemy
  10. Why Ego is The Greatest Opponent to Your Creativity and Success (And How to Fight Back)
  11. 4 Ways To Push Through Adversity and Failure Without Ego
  12. 5 Deadly Kinds of Ego That Prey Upon Your Success

2016 27

  1. Here’s Everything I Wrote in 2016
  2. The (Very) Best Books I Read In 2016
  3. 24 Books To Hone Your Strategic Mind
  4. An ancient guide to solving all work problems once and for all
  5. 100 Things I Learned in 10 Years and 100 Reads of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations
  6. It’s Not About Stoic WEEK, But Life
  7. Here’s Why Smart People Believe The Nonsense That Trump Might Win
  8. Podcasts & Interviews for Ego is the Enemy
  9. The fascinating and ego-killing existence of human wormholes
  10. The Maxim For Every Successful Person; ‘Always Stay A Student’
  11. The 3 Ways Ego Will Derail Your Career Before It Really Begins
  12. 13 Moral Biographies That Make You A Better Person And Teach You About Life
  13. Dear Dad, Please Don’t Vote For Donald Trump
  14. My Extended Bibliography for Ego Is The Enemy and How I Screwed It Up
  15. Events for Ego is the Enemy
  16. Announcing: Ego Is The Enemy & How You Can Get Involved
  17. Sorry, An Epiphany Isn’t What’s Going To Change Your Life
  18. Marginalia, the Anti-Library, and Other Ways to Master the Lost Art of Reading
  19. Get All My Writing (From All The Places I Write) Via Email
  20. Why SXSW Just Isn’t Worth It Anymore
  21. Here’s the Strategy Elite Athletes Follow to Perform at the Highest Level
  22. The Best Book About Addiction You’ve Never Heard of Is Back in Print After 50 Years
  23. Things Heavy Metal Taught Me About Life
  24. How Dr. Drew Pinsky Changed My Life
  25. The Time When I “Only” Had One Goat
  26. My 2015 Writing Roundup
  27. The Best Article of My Career

2015 19

  1. From Zero to 50,000: How I Built A Big Email List Exclusively About Books I Liked
  2. The Perfect Spouse Is the Best Life Hack No One Told You About
  3. The (Very) Best Books I Read in 2015
  4. Here’s the Real Solution to Millennial Angst
  5. 10 Strategies for Turning Obstacles Into Opportunities
  6. The Performance Bias: Life Is Not a Movie, Life Is Not a Novel
  7. Why Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between The World and Me’ Is Not the Masterpiece We Hoped For
  8. Sangfroid: The Art of Being Cool Under Pressure (and Success)
  9. I’m a Millennial and I Don’t Understand My Peers—Not Even a Little Bit
  10. Practice The Stoic Art of Negative Visualization
  11. Stoicism isn’t Pessimistic. It’s Boldly Optimistic.
  12. Texas Forever: How I Found the American Dream in the Lone Star State
  13. Seeing Opportunities Where Others See Obstacles
  14. All My Writing for 2015 So Far
  15. Making Sure You Get My Reading List Newsletter
  16. The Strategies That Helped Me Write 3 Books in 3 Years
  17. 28 Pieces of Productivity Advice I Stole From People Smarter Than Me
  18. An Interview on Stoicism with Massimo Pigliucci
  19. The Very Best Books I Read in 2014

2014 39

  1. My 2014 Writing Roundup
  2. Some Stoic End of the Year Thoughts
  3. How To Think About Obstacles
  4. The Obstacle Is The Way PRINT (from Joey Roth!)
  5. Growth Hacker Marketing: The Course!
  6. My Morning Routine
  7. Applying Growth Hacking to a Book (and to getting ahead)
  8. Growth Hacker Marketing: Revised & Expanded is here! (My goat loves it)
  9. Growth Hacker Marketing Announcement & Giveaway
  10. Every Day A Saturday (Or, The Life You Want)
  11. My 2014 Mid-Year Writing Roundup
  12. Growth Hacking Gig: I’ll Pay For Your Training
  13. The Overthinker’s Guide To Launching Your Next Project Without Wanting To Kill Yourself
  14. Here’s a Quick Productivity Secret: Don’t Buy Wifi on Flights
  15. Reading Isn’t A Race: How Speed Reading And Spritz Completly Miss The Point
  16. Print Out Good Advice And Put It Where You Work (You Won’t Be Able To Run Away From It)
  17. A Winner Does…
  18. Stoicism: Practical Philosophy You Can Actually Use
  19. What Matters: Information vs. Knowledge vs. Experience
  20. How To Beat Procrastination
  21. Stoic Lessons From The Front: How To Turn Obstacles Into Opportunity
  22. My Creative Secret: Quantity Over Quality — And Commitments
  23. Arnold Schwarzenegger on How The Obstacle Is The Way
  24. The Obstacle Is The Way: Tim Ferriss Audio Edition
  25. A Burglar Stole My Engagement Ring—And It Made My Proposal
  26. Welcome To The Obstacle Is The Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
  27. A Lesson From The World’s Worst Week
  28. The Obstacle Is The Way Book Trailer & Book Signings
  29. A Practical Philosophy Reading List
  30. The Guilty, Crazy Secret That Helps Me Write
  31. The Obstacle Is The Way: My New Book & A Bunch of Reading List Bonuses
  32. The Notecard System: The Key For Remembering, Organizing And Using Everything You Read
  33. 8 Simple Rules To Live By From The World’s Greatest Deep Sea Diver
  34. How To Beat “The System”: The Ultimate Scarcity of Good Stuff
  35. How to Keep A Library Of (Physical) Books
  36. Announcing: The Obstacle Is The Way & How You Can Get Involved
  37. A Note To Self
  38. How And Why To Keep A “Commonplace Book”
  39. 9 Timeless Business Virtues From A 19th Century Self-Made Millionaire

2013 31

  1. 24 Books You’ve Probably Never Heard Of But Will Change Your Life
  2. Best Book Recommendations of 2013
  3. What is Scarce?
  4. How Dropping Out Of College Can Save Your Life
  5. How To Travel — Some Contrarian Advice
  6. So You Want To Write A Book? “Want” Is Not Nearly Enough
  7. How I Did Research For 3 New York Times Bestselling Authors (In My Spare Time)
  8. “We want more. We want more.”
  9. So You Want To Be A Writer? That’s Mistake #1
  10. How To Read More — A Lot More
  11. The Differences Between Perception and Reality
  12. 25 Rules For Living From A (Semi-) Successful 26-Year-Old
  13. Smarts and Success
  14. My Library
  15. My Resources for Growth Hacking
  16. My New Book *Growth Hacker Marketing* is Now Out–Why I Wrote It and How to Get It
  17. Comparison
  18. The Question to Ask
  19. Some New Writing
  20. Seneca on Travel
  21. Updates and RSS
  22. Here’s Some Marketing Advice: Your Thing Sucks
  23. Help Me With My Next Book
  24. Only One Way to Make Progress
  25. Trust Me I’m Lying Excerpt/Slideshow
  26. The Narrative Fallacy Embodied
  27. Finding Hidden Education Subsidies
  28. Accounting for Unfortunate Events
  29. Welcome Creative Live
  30. Seen vs Unseen
  31. Best Book Recommendations of 2012

2012 30

  1. A Second in the Present
  2. Defy and Trust
  3. The Walk
  4. Your nerf life
  5. Cato
  6. Never Be Like Them
  7. Some Recent Writing
  8. A Hustler’s Art
  9. How to Repay Your Enemies
  10. How to Repay Your Mentors
  11. Savages
  12. Responding to Peter Shankman
  13. Welcome to Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
  14. The Swarm Strategy (How to Learn About Anything)
  15. Take Little Steps
  16. Trust Me I’m Lying: Official Book Trailer
  17. Sloppy and Obnoxious
  18. Announcing My First Book: “Trust Me I’m Lying” and the Preorder Campaign
  19. Living Like a Boss
  20. The False Bravado of “Philosophy”
  21. More Writing from Me
  22. The Benefit of the Doubt
  23. How Do You Make Life-Changing Decisions?
  24. You Won. Now What?
  25. Return to Philosophy
  26. You’re Not a Genius
  27. The Next Step
  28. To Really Know Something
  29. Best Book Recommendations of 2011
  30. Self-Injury

2011 36

  1. Arguing With Reality (Bearing the Unbearable)
  2. Total Commitment
  3. Go and Stand on Hallowed Ground
  4. Missing the Point
  5. Be a good person; Do what you love
  6. The Importance of Having ‘Your Things’
  7. An Interview with Me
  8. Rules as Excuses
  9. Is That Who You Want To Be? Pt II
  10. Unfortunate Events
  11. The Temptation
  12. Advice to a Young Man Hoping to Go Somewhere (Or Get Something From Someone Successful)
  13. Up and Down
  14. On Confidence
  15. The Present Moment
  16. Pain
  17. An Introduction to Me
  18. Two Sides
  19. A Natural State
  20. A Hard Right Turn
  21. Potential
  22. Self-Direction
  23. Maybe and Might
  24. You’re The Problem
  25. Update on the Reading List Email
  26. A Different Take on Empathy
  27. Contemptuous Expressions Pt 2
  28. Talkativeness
  29. One More Step
  30. Underlying Motivations
  31. Catharsis
  32. At Peace
  33. Convenient
  34. Wisdom
  35. A False Sense
  36. The Rules

2010 33

  1. Trophies
  2. The Dress-Suit Bribe
  3. The Ties That Bind
  4. Holding To Different Standards
  5. An Introduction to Montaigne
  6. Reading List Email Update
  7. This Is What Real Analysis Looks Like
  8. The Use of Abandoned Shells
  9. Schemes & Scams Pt II
  10. Metaphors & Philosophy
  11. Projecting Rules
  12. Empathy & Perspective
  13. Schemes & Scams
  14. Rude
  15. Not Noticing
  16. Who
  17. Sprezzatura
  18. The Point
  19. The Course
  20. Their Logic
  21. Staying Sober
  22. Emails of a…
  23. Means
  24. The Logos
  25. Questioning
  26. Dread
  27. Ideas
  28. Self-Indulgent
  29. Distraction
  30. The Imaginary Audience
  31. Entitlement
  32. The Terrain
  33. Stop. Examine. Reconsider.

2009 73

  1. Philosophy
  2. One of Them
  3. Self-Congratulation
  4. Cursory Genius
  5. A Pass on Real Life
  6. Life As One of Them
  7. Self-Taught
  8. Judgment
  9. Lose-Lose
  10. Moving Forward
  11. Couple Things
  12. The People We Deal With
  13. Fear
  14. A Love of Fate
  15. The Narrative Fix
  16. The Cycle
  17. What Matters
  18. Arguing with Reality
  19. The Underside
  20. In Harness
  21. Like an Addict
  22. All Is Just As Well
  23. When I See
  24. Practical Knowledge
  25. Contemptuous Expressions
  26. Enough for Me
  27. A Quick Thought About The Web
  28. A Suggested Reading Newsletter?
  29. Easy Street
  30. Who Can We Turn To?
  31. Brave New World
  32. One Big Waste
  33. At the Core of It
  34. “A Disrespect for Certain Kinds of Things”
  35. Self-Reflection Means Self-Criticism
  36. Mergers & Acqusitions
  37. Never Enough
  38. The Second Act Fallacy
  39. Life
  40. The Active Life
  41. A Guide to Stoicism
  42. Being ‘Present’ (My Theory of Human Evolution)
  43. The Five Rules of Wisdom
  44. What is Community Organizing?
  45. On Getting Advice
  46. The Obstacle Becomes The Way
  47. Being Here
  48. What Do I Need to Know?
  49. Life as a Grand Strategy
  50. This Boy’s Life
  51. Question: Sex and Cash Theory
  52. You, as a Failure
  53. 3 Common Practices I Dissent From
  54. A Kind of Mission Statement
  55. What I’m Reading
  56. On Grievances
  57. The Age of Ages
  58. The Image
  59. Selling Out
  60. Three Good Books, Three Not So Good Books
  61. A Plan for Action
  62. The “Soundtrack of Your Life” Delusion
  63. To Read:
  64. To Remember – What Kind of Consistency is Important
  65. Nice Ways to Wrap Things Up
  66. What Would Google Do?
  67. Cool Way to Get Some Cheap Books
  68. To Remember
  69. Decision Making and Evaluation
  70. Being Honest
  71. Self-Absorption
  72. What I’m Reading
  73. Daily Routine

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  1. “Strong Opinions, Loosely Held”
  2. What I’m Reading
  3. Means to an End
  4. Collapsing Fear
  5. What I’m Reading
  6. The Canvas Strategy
  7. Only One Way to Build a New Media Presence Pt II
  8. Shoes
  9. The Boydian Lowball
  10. What I’m Reading
  11. A Side to Err
  12. The Worst Thing About Blogs
  13. Falling Short as a Good Thing
  14. What I’m Reading
  15. Is This Who You Want to Be?
  16. The Joys of Craigslist
  17. Thinking About Incentives
  18. One Place For Your Priorities
  19. An Exercise in Self-Reflection
  20. What I’m Reading 10/15
  21. Dialing In
  22. Here and There
  23. Reminder
  24. My Job
  25. Understanding Essence vs Efficiency
  26. You, Piece of Work
  27. What I’m Reading
  28. Manifest Destiny Bullshit
  29. A Choice
  30. What I’m Reading
  31. Effects Based Operations
  32. Book Debate Pt II: American Psycho
  33. Luck
  34. What is the ‘classic’ book of the 80’s and 90s?
  35. People as a Proper Occupation
  36. What I’m Reading
  37. List of unusual animal anecdotes
  38. Idealism
  39. Stop Planning, Start Doing
  40. Is that who you want to be?
  41. What I’m Reading
  42. Influence
  43. Internal. Yourself. Everytime.
  44. Operative Words
  45. Who Do You Want To Be?
  46. Creating Opportunities
  47. What I’m Reading
  48. The Difficult Questions
  49. Creating Power
  50. Permission to Learn New Things
  51. Perspective
  52. How Not to Think About New Media
  53. What I’m Reading
  54. You’d Think…
  55. Community Organizing
  56. Giving Up The Ghost
  57. Books to Base Your Life On
  58. The Heel
  59. New Media Education
  60. Bondage and Freedom
  61. Do You Deserve It?
  62. Things I don’t like about myself since I moved to LA
  63. Bad Moments in Online PR or (Most People Suck and That’s Great News)
  64. What I’ve Been Reading
  65. You Are What You Do
  66. Setting a Collision Course
  67. How to Change the Image of a Publicly Traded Company
  68. The Pressure
  69. The Honesty Box
  70. What I’ve Been Reading
  71. Thoughts on Emails
  72. This is My Life.
  73. Only One Way to Build a New Media Presence
  74. Teaching Yourself To Think
  75. What I’m Reading
  76. Defining Yourself
  77. Change
  78. The Professionals
  79. Running Lean
  80. The Firm
  81. 9 Tips for Building a Wikipedia Account
  82. Anger
  83. What I’m Reading
  84. Priorities
  85. The Process
  86. How To Build a New Media Resume
  87. Ego
  88. What I’ve Been Reading
  89. Von Clausewitz a Bayesian?
  90. Life and Death
  91. Fail
  92. Raider or Creator?
  93. Born to Run
  94. Thinking Strategically
  95. What’s It Like Being You?
  96. Origin of Ideas
  97. Cutting Your Teeth
  98. What I’ve Been Reading 4/30
  99. You As a Person
  100. Turning Pro
  101. Organizations and Scalability
  102. Realigning My Priorities
  103. Time
  104. You
  105. What I’m Reading: 4/16
  106. Hustling
  107. Fingerspitzengefuhl for Books: Developing a Fingertip Feel for Everything You’ve Ever Read
  108. Help Wanted
  109. Shhh….
  110. ‘Meditative Isolation’
  111. Sitting at the Seat of Knowledge
  112. The Rolodex
  113. Self-Imposed Slavery
  114. Open Q&A
  115. The Art of Acquiescence
  116. Cannibals and Kings
  117. Repeating in My Head
  118. The Blurring Line in Production – Why That Matters
  119. The High Horse
  120. Crush Your Enemy Totally (Except When You Shouldn’t)
  121. Always Say Less Than Necessary (Except When You Shouldn’t)
  122. Stuff You Might Like
  123. Random Rules for Myself
  124. The Narrative Fallacy
  125. The Search
  126. What Does the World Want to Know.
  127. You can do whatever you want. Seriously.
  128. A New Age, New Thinking
  129. Working Towards Your Telos
  130. Paths and Consequences
  131. The Awesome History of Bizarre Animals (and other ancient oddities)
  132. Best in the World
  133. Why I Left School
  134. The Stakes
  135. Rationalizing the Past
  136. The Edge
  137. Tracing the Ideachain
  138. Daimon
  139. Guilt, Happiness and Honesty
  140. Hubris
  141. Building Your Antilibrary
  142. What a young person needs to take from the Yahoo/Microsoft Merger
  143. Forget Armor
  144. On Positioning and a Life’s Pursuit
  145. Thinking Outside ‘Outside the Box’
  146. Black Swan Thought
  147. Finding an Anchor
  148. Strategic Decay and Rotting Ignorance
  149. Finding New Rabbit Holes
  150. Thank You
  151. Meditations Pt. 8
  152. Getting Rid of Your Center of Gravity
  153. Ethics and Praise on Book Jackets
  154. A Wolf Like Me
  155. Good Stuff, Bad Stuff
  156. “…a half-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long.”
  157. Making Due
  158. Sex/Cash Theory
  159. How Ron Paul Can Fight Like a Guerrilla Terrorist (and win)
  160. The Fear
  161. The Danger of Informational Cascades
  162. Books from Break
  163. Legs of the Stool: Music Monopoly
  164. Being Free from Perturbation Pt. 4
  165. Collaborative Filtering

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  1. The Flow
  2. Attacking Strategy Pt. 2
  3. More on community…
  4. Hollywood: Raping Instead of Creating
  5. Stop Talking, and Start Walking
  6. Vision
  7. Meditations Pt. 7
  8. Meditations Pt. 6
  9. Meditations Pt. 5
  10. Another Idea: Treating People Like Winners
  11. Ambition and Love
  12. Read to Lead: How to Digest Books Above Your “Level”
  13. Entrenched Player’s Dilemma
  14. This is me, as it happens.
  15. A Nervous Splendor
  16. Meditations Pt. 4
  17. How Important is Empathy?
  18. Post-College World
  19. Books to Read:
  20. 5 People You Want to Know
  21. Attacking Strategy
  22. Things I’d Like to Learn About: Entropy
  23. Meditations Pt. 3
  24. Aching in a Good Way
  25. Email on the Paper
  26. Meditations Pt. 2
  27. More on Facebook
  28. Letters from a Stoic
  29. Cracking into the future
  30. Important Announcement
  31. Why Success Can Set You Up For Failure
  32. Meditations Pt. 1
  33. Opening Up iTunes
  34. Being Free from Perturbation Pt. 3
  35. New Sites To Read
  36. New Book Quotes: Dr. Drew and Robert Evans
  37. Self-Justification
  38. The Short Sightedness of Selling Out
  39. Buyer’s Remorse: Millenials Rising
  40. Why I Don’t Care About Ron Paul and Why He Has Nothing to Do with the Long Tail
  41. Do you want it?
  42. On Clicks
  43. Quake Reading
  44. Meditations: Interview with Gregory Hays
  45. Getting to be THAT guy
  46. Wishing Doesn’t Make It So
  47. Another Movie Idea
  48. Letting Go: Lessons from a Slacker’s Toy
  49. Being Free from Perturbation Pt. 2
  50. Thoughts on Ev Psych
  51. Being Free from Perturbation Pt. 1
  52. Last Week(s) in Reading
  53. Rules for Radicals: Working within The System
  54. Strategic Flexibility
  55. Playing with Numbers
  56. Here’s an idea:
  57. 6 Things Cicero Can Teach You About Writing
  58. The Dream and the Green Light
  59. Challenging the Way Things Are and Have Been
  60. Random Notes
  61. Honesty as a Strategy
  62. A New Age Has Begun
  63. Not to Pursue, but to Ensue
  64. More Reading
  65. The Good Life
  66. 4th Generation Warfare on the Internet
  67. The Gulch and the Cave
  68. Seriously, You Can Do Whatever You Want.
  69. Last Week’s Reading
  70. 50 Cent Quotes
  71. My Autumn with the Moguls
  72. Going slow in the fast lane
  73. Welcome: All the New People
  74. Charity
  75. The Best Revenge: To Not Be Like That
  76. I did It
  77. What I’m Reading Now:
  78. Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
  79. Capitalism and Freedom
  80. To Be or To Do?
  81. Things I’d like to know about:
  82. Keeping the World from Getting You Down: Do Delusions Help with Success
  83. Thoughts and a Look Back
  84. The Deal: U.S vs the Indians
  85. I wish this didn’t need to be said.
  86. bellum omnium contra omnes
  87. The Bunny!
  88. On Running and Failing*
  89. There is no such thing as coincidences
  90. A less than fun but fascinating topic
  91. Eventually, Accountability Comes Knockin’
  92. Ryanholiday net
  93. Slight delay.
  94. I think I am in love.
  95. “It’s just life.”
  96. Liberty and Book Quotes
  97. Goddamn Godin…
  98. On Pulling the Trigger
  99. Friday Link Dump 8.31.07
  100. Revolution Time: Looking at the Clock
  101. Pithy
  102. What are the 3 Best Blogs on the Internet?
  103. No, What You Feel Isn’t Important.
  104. Friday Link Dump 8.24.07
  105. How To Email Strangers: Talking With Talent and the New Media Elite
  106. What it’s like to chase while the others are resting
  107. Some Weekend Announcements:
  108. What if the Web Doesn’t Win? Thoughts that give me the Fear
  109. Thoughts on Productivity.
  110. Well son, what do you want to do with your life?
  111. Great content is king
  112. Beware of “we” people
  113. Lessons from Public Transit
  114. The Power Broker: How Power and Personality Interplay
  115. Recenter on Success and on Failure
  116. Kill ‘Em All.
  117. Thoughts from Hollywood
  118. More on the “gatekeepers”
  119. How the mighty have fallen.
  120. Why we could eliminate the A-List bloggers and be smarter for it.
  121. Recanting on the Blackberry
  122. Running in the City
  123. Your Anti-Story: Combating the Resistance
  124. Using Fear.
  125. Books and Books.
  126. The customer as a victim.
  127. 9 5
  128. Or maybe it isn’t that easy.
  129. More on the RSS
  130. Sifting through garbage.
  131. My War Gone By, I Miss It So
  132. Buying Peace of Mind.
  133. Sometimes it is that easy.
  134. Yup
  135. Breaking your mental cycle
  136. Like sand through the hourglass.
  137. Stumbling through.
  138. Respecting “the way things have always been.”
  139. The Origins of Virtue
  140. Show me the money.
  141. Links 6.10
  142. It is not for the conquerors to surrender their arms…
  143. “Excuse me, can you keep it down?”
  144. Rss 2
  145. Xenophon and the perfect paper
  146. When people don’t do their jobs, reporting on the Facebook Platform
  147. The blinding success of the present
  148. The book list continues…
  149. More on mentors
  150. Digg
  151. More Book Quotes and Passages
  152. of all virtues…energy.
  153. My first case of plagiarism….
  154. more on the paper.
  155. Exactly
  156. Ridiculous Marketing
  157. On the Spartans and the Perfect Paper
  158. Macbook
  159. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
  160. The Driving Range.
  161. New book quotes
  162. A Man in Full
  163. God
  164. How to convert a reader to a fan
  165. What Makes Sammy Run?
  166. This is the copy you want.
  167. Schools and Creativity.
  168. Fatblogging
  169. One of my favorite sites.
  170. the deeper digg effect.
  171. Drinking for Twitter
  172. Finding a mentor
  173. Questions Part 2
  174. My condolences.
  175. That is the question:
  176. On the telos
  177. The meaning of life
  178. MSM Disrespect
  179. The manifestation of inner strength.
  180. Links 4.9
  181. to_read?
  182. My Tucker review
  183. Wiki’in it.
  184. more books?
  185. Addressing criticism in advance.
  186. the paradox.
  187. books I’ve quit.
  188. My life since September 15th…
  189. motivation.
  190. Links 3.28
  191. the race to the bottom.
  192. Links 3.26
  193. post it.
  194. Why we ought to ignore Web 2.0 completely.
  195. …
  196. Meditation.
  197. Uphills and Downhills; more thoughts from SXSW
  198. On meeting and pursuing.
  199. Called it?
  200. Sxsw
  201. All that Caesar had…
  202. the myth of prodigy.
  203. The sage.
  204. Google Refines Search.
  205. Boyd and the OODA Loop Discussion.
  206. Links 2/25
  207. Quotes.
  208. Someone reads Cuban…Using Adwords to score a job
  209. Fight Club Moments
  210. the future of pr.
  211. Zdnet
  212. New Book Quotes
  213. Link Dump 2.14
  214. Myspace’s Poor Earnings.
  215. Recommended Reading
  216. Link Dump 2.8
  217. A revolution without substance is not a revolution at all…
  218. Link Dump 2.6
  219. In the contrast of illumination…
  220. Links 2.2
  221. The epitome of lazy PR
  222. The Business of Running