Dear Jeff
Pennies, Pebbles, and Pottery
Life
Beyond enough
Helpful questions for untangling fulfillment and money
Be in one place at once
The difference between presence and splitness
Cultivate outcomes
The power of initial conditions
The longer path is the faster path
Why straight lines are slower than we think
On being early
Why being early is more difficult than it seems
Intelligence = Error Correction
A minimalist definition of intelligence
The secret to patience
On having fun and being unbeatable
Gradually, then suddenly
A framework for max uncertainty
On fleetingness
On the pricelessness of temporary things
Allegory is the way
On reading spiritual texts allegorically rather than literally
We are made of eternity
On death, evolution, and eternity
What’s your life aesthetic?
On designing each facet of our lives with intention
Pull your joy forward
On creating space now for the things that bring us fulfillment
Why I’m reading fewer books
On finding the balance between input and output
Study your discontent
On using discontent to improve wellbeing
Everything is raw material
On choosing what to make from the materials we’ve been given
Truth has a shelf life
On seeing truth through the lens of time and evolution
Success: An alternate definition
On identifying our unique recipe for living that maximizes fulfillment
What type of God do you believe in?
On the universe’s essential nature and its posture towards us
Hunters and diggers
On understanding how we’re wired
Get comfortable living in the gray
On the relationship between rebellion and freedom
Be like a Roomba
On using action to figure out what to do next
Slipping through the cracks
On reducing my reliance on list keeping to help put first things first
Fortunate > Blessed
On expressing gratitude while embracing randomness
Be an archeologist
On discovering who we are by stripping away all that we aren’t
The details are your life
The big things are made up of the small things
Philosophy isn’t one-size-fits-all
On judging philosophy by the quality of life it creates
Lessons from Japan
On beauty, craft, self awareness, and community
You are here
On moving from the fringe to the middle
Fate as probability
On the relationship between circumstance and choice of response
Eden is a metaphor
On balancing advancing consciousness and connection with the natural world
Find your likes by eliminating your dislikes
On using a process of elimination to find your passion
Living is so much more interesting than dying
On living more fully here and now
Nobody is self-made
On leveraging our circumstances for growth
Celebrate today
On appreciating the wonder we’re a part of
Serendipity
On reconnecting with the fun that drew you into creative work
Fulfillment is a posture to circumstance, not a product of it
On the unique and personal nature of fulfillment
Why I’m a perfectionist
On the costs and difficulty of achieving upward mobility
Everything compounds
On emergent phenomena and why it’s the engine of the universe
Fullness, emptiness, free will, and fate
On the spectral nature of fate and fullness
Waterfalls and filmstrips
On the fluid nature of our beings
How I got better at golf while playing less
On achieving better performance with less effort
Play the long game
On patient accumulation, asymmetric bets, and winning Monopoly
Why political systems disintegrate
On why societies fail when they leave too many people behind
We need integrative philosophy
On assembling a mosaic of methods for defining the many layers of reality
The age of integration
On our need to merge science and mysticism
This is all there is
On why the action is here, and always will be
Debt is reversible
On the power of simple-yet-tough decisions repeated consistently over time
The art of controlling (almost) nothing
On identifying what we can control and releasing ourselves from the rest
Regulation and taxes (A positive perspective)
On the relationship between population density, regulations, and taxes.
Set your alarm the same time every day
On seeking health, fulfillment, and joy daily
The afterlife lets us off the hook
On just how fleeting our time together in this life really is
There’s a person behind every product
On the importance of considering the people behind the things we buy
Be where you’re from
On the costs of relocating your home base
Beggars and billionaires
On what we seek when we travel
The reward for a life well lived, is a life well lived
On the fleetingness of life and the benefits of not believing in an afterlife
Join a cat for sunrise
A lesson about reconnecting with the now
How to get unstuck
A mental model for generating change
A fresh thought about homelessness in San Francisco
Making sense of the growing homeless population and it’s relationship to the amount of support that’s available to them
4 keys to fostering contagious generosity
On the primal elements that unlock our innate desire to be generous
Choose both
On the importance of seeking to resolve seemingly contradictory truths
How Yosemite turned my life upside down
On the importance of seeking out new perspectives and experiences
There’s no such thing as luck
On learning to experiment and embrace failure as integral ingredients to success
Make money while you sleep
On the power of decoupling our time from our income
What will you do?
On why we can’t be free until we know why we want to be free
Talking about work is not work
On the danger of talking away our creative energy
Focus on habits
What Tiger Woods can teach us about achieving goals
Why we find things after we stop looking for them
On worrying less