What Happens When We Stop Sharing Reality
The World We Knew I was sitting in an Uber with a friend in Accra, Ghana, when I noticed the
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Why You Don't Actually Need a Lawn
The Problem With Lawns Lawns, as expanses of verdant private land, were invented as a status signal. English aristocrats in
Why Keeping Options Open Keeps You Mediocre: The case for burning your backup plans
The future isn't a failsafe. Optionality and compounding are enemy twins. It's rare that you can
Why the Best Things Resist Easy Discovery: The hidden treasures that only reveal themselves to those willing to dig
There’s a line someone shared recently which made me pause for a minute. It’s in Proverbs 25:2:
Your Certainty Is Making You Anxious: Why eliminating risk makes you less resilient
Civilisation Is A Certainty Machine There’s an easy allure to certain things. You like the train that runs on
When Pain Means Progress: How to tell whether discomfort is a signal to push or to stop
When I walk for several hours on the treadmill under my desk, my legs hurt like hell. But the pain
Stop Fighting Over Crumbs: The Escape Velocity of Agency
Some people love a good grumble. They hate the way things are. The choices they have. The life they'
Why We Stopped Hunting Whales: The Case for Kerosene
The Case for Kerosene We’re addicted to cheap energy. We once had a global industry hunting whales, to light
You can't bottle beauty: Why some things lose their value the moment you try to capture them
There's an idea I've been toying with recently – I call it the Seagull Paradox. It'
Why everything is the way it is: How ordinary people built the world you take for granted
The world around you wasn't always this way. The streets weren't always laid out like this.
How to Use Your Time Well: The paradox every ambitious person has to solve
Two voices whisper to us about the ways we use our time, and both claim to speak the truth. The
Life is Jazz: What musicians know about mistakes that you don’t
This post is an early version of a thought/anecdote that eventually made its way into my book, Sovereign. Grab
