Recent Posts
Here is every More To That post, listed in reverse chronological order. If you’d like to view the best posts first, you can explore the archive by category here. If you’re looking for my shorter essays, check out the Reflections section here.
The Skill That Will Never Die
January 28, 2025On Fleeing the Inferno
January 14, 2025The Three Types of Writing
January 7, 2025The End of Shame
December 3, 2024Metric-Less Success
September 24, 2024The Riddle of Happiness
March 26, 2024Be Kind, But Keep Your Integrity
March 5, 2024The Labor of Inspiration
January 16, 2024The Allergy to Uncertainty
November 28, 2023The Problem of What Others Think
June 27, 2023Burnout Is the Echo of Self-Judgment
June 6, 2023A Few Lessons on Showing Up
April 11, 2023Being Poor vs. Feeling Poor
March 21, 2023The Levers That Money Can’t Pull
March 14, 2023The Antidote to Envy
January 31, 2023The Riddle of Rest
November 22, 2022How to Beat Worry
September 27, 2022The Survival Instinct of Money
June 21, 2022Knowledge Is Not Understanding
June 7, 2022The Mind Scribble: Solving the Blank Page Problem
May 10, 2022The Arc of the Practical Creator
May 3, 2022The Problem With Note-Taking
March 22, 2022The Time Trap of Productivity
January 19, 2022The Many Worlds of Enough
December 7, 2021The Nothingness of Money
November 2, 2021When 1 + 1 = 3
July 27, 2021God Is a Spectrum of Being
July 13, 2021Make Classics, Not Content
June 9, 2021Speculation: A Game You Can’t Win
May 25, 2021Multi-Tasking and Our Greatest Fear
May 18, 2021A Reflection on Being Asian
May 11, 2021Words Are the Sculptors of Culture
April 13, 2021Envy Is the Cancer of the Soul
April 6, 2021The Mundane Is Beauty Without Wonder
February 17, 2021The River of Compassion
February 3, 2021The Staircase of the Self
January 26, 2021The Riddle of Boredom
January 12, 2021Thought Stop Signs: The Source of Lazy Thinking
January 5, 2021Fluid Thought: The Art of Exploring Without Expecting
December 8, 2020Pursue Mastery, Not Status
November 24, 2020The Omnipresence of Work
November 12, 2020A Letter to My Newborn Daughter
October 22, 2020The Power of the Dissenting Voice
October 1, 2020The Long Tail of Negative Emotions
September 16, 2020Creativity Starts Before Anything Is Made
September 8, 2020The Information Lifecycle: How Three Filters Shape the Mind
August 25, 2020Reality Is Never Strange. We Are.
August 12, 2020Mere Superheroes
July 29, 2020The Ultimate Guide to Visual Storytelling
July 22, 2020Weaponized Silence: The Worst Form of Quiet
July 8, 2020Good Enough Is Just Fine
July 1, 2020How Money Forever Changed Us
June 24, 2020Personal Experience Is Everything
June 3, 2020What Is the Present Moment?
May 27, 2020Why Everyone Can Face the Truth
May 20, 2020The Infinite Shades of Uncertainty
May 13, 2020Painting the Bullseye: What Happens When We Lose Our Curiosity?
May 6, 2020The Day You Decided to Take the Leap
April 29, 2020Why We Doubt Ourselves
April 22, 2020Write for Yourself, and Wisdom Will Follow
April 8, 2020Shocks, Setbacks, and the Slowdown of Time
March 26, 2020Finding Peace Within the Pandemic
March 18, 2020Philosophy Has Lost Its Way
March 11, 2020It’s Mainstream to Hate the Mainstream
February 25, 2020Respect Is No Substitute for Love
February 19, 2020Money Is the Megaphone of Identity
February 5, 2020The Four Ancestral Wants: A Brief Dive into the Nature of Desire
December 18, 2019How to Be Thankful for Your Life with One Simple Reset
November 27, 2019What Makes Death Bad?
November 20, 2019The Small Things Are Big Windows Into Who You Are
November 13, 2019The Release Ratio: How to Make Use of Everything You Know
November 6, 2019What We Get Wrong About Evil
October 28, 2019Happiness Is a Serious Matter
October 23, 2019The Riddle of the Well-Paying, Pointless Job
October 16, 2019Thankfully, Life Is Full of Problems
October 9, 2019Are You My Friend?
September 25, 2019Do You Really Believe What You Believe?
September 18, 2019The Economics of Writing (And Why Now Is the Best Time to Do It)
September 11, 2019The Finality of Everything
August 28, 2019Memory Is the Shadow of Fact, the Artifact of Feeling
August 14, 2019Socrates: The Badass Godfather of Uncertainty
July 24, 2019Self-Help and the Smuggling of Values
July 10, 2019The Creator and the Crowd: Originality’s Balancing Act
June 19, 2019The Meaning of Life Is Absurd
June 5, 2019Why Having a Wedding Makes Sense
April 9, 2019The Right Side of Thought
March 20, 2019How to Calm the Anxious Brain
March 6, 2019You Are Not Your Anxiety: A Journey Into the Anxious Brain
February 6, 2019The Garden You Can Touch
October 23, 2018The Quest to the Unlived Life
October 1, 2018How Natural Selection Screwed Us
July 25, 2018Death: The Roommate of Life
June 20, 2018From Ignorance to Wisdom: A Framework for Knowledge
May 2, 2018Knowledge Is Not a Thing
April 18, 2018Travel Is No Cure for the Mind
March 21, 2018