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 End of ShameDecember 3, 2024
- Metric-Less SuccessSeptember 24, 2024
- The Riddle of HappinessMarch 26, 2024
- Be Kind, But Keep Your IntegrityMarch 5, 2024
- The Labor of InspirationJanuary 16, 2024
- The Allergy to UncertaintyNovember 28, 2023
- The Problem of What Others ThinkJune 27, 2023
- Burnout Is the Echo of Self-JudgmentJune 6, 2023
- A Few Lessons on Showing UpApril 11, 2023
- Being Poor vs. Feeling PoorMarch 21, 2023
- The Levers That Money Can’t PullMarch 14, 2023
- The Antidote to EnvyJanuary 31, 2023
- The Riddle of RestNovember 22, 2022
- How to Beat WorrySeptember 27, 2022
- The Survival Instinct of MoneyJune 21, 2022
- Knowledge Is Not UnderstandingJune 7, 2022
- The Mind Scribble: Solving the Blank Page ProblemMay 10, 2022
- The Arc of the Practical CreatorMay 3, 2022
- The Problem With Note-TakingMarch 22, 2022
- The Time Trap of ProductivityJanuary 19, 2022
- The Many Worlds of EnoughDecember 7, 2021
- The Nothingness of MoneyNovember 2, 2021
- When 1 + 1 = 3July 27, 2021
- God Is a Spectrum of BeingJuly 13, 2021
- Make Classics, Not ContentJune 9, 2021
- Speculation: A Game You Can’t WinMay 25, 2021
- Multi-Tasking and Our Greatest FearMay 18, 2021
- A Reflection on Being AsianMay 11, 2021
- Words Are the Sculptors of CultureApril 13, 2021
- Envy Is the Cancer of the SoulApril 6, 2021
- The Mundane Is Beauty Without WonderFebruary 17, 2021
- The River of CompassionFebruary 3, 2021
- The Staircase of the SelfJanuary 26, 2021
- The Riddle of BoredomJanuary 12, 2021
- Thought Stop Signs: The Source of Lazy ThinkingJanuary 5, 2021
- Fluid Thought: The Art of Exploring Without ExpectingDecember 8, 2020
- Pursue Mastery, Not StatusNovember 24, 2020
- The Omnipresence of WorkNovember 12, 2020
- A Letter to My Newborn DaughterOctober 22, 2020
- The Power of the Dissenting VoiceOctober 1, 2020
- The Long Tail of Negative EmotionsSeptember 16, 2020
- Creativity Starts Before Anything Is MadeSeptember 8, 2020
- The Information Lifecycle: How Three Filters Shape the MindAugust 25, 2020
- Reality Is Never Strange. We Are.August 12, 2020
- Mere SuperheroesJuly 29, 2020
- The Ultimate Guide to Visual StorytellingJuly 22, 2020
- Weaponized Silence: The Worst Form of QuietJuly 8, 2020
- Good Enough Is Just FineJuly 1, 2020
- How Money Forever Changed UsJune 24, 2020
- Personal Experience Is EverythingJune 3, 2020
- What Is the Present Moment?May 27, 2020
- Why Everyone Can Face the TruthMay 20, 2020
- The Infinite Shades of UncertaintyMay 13, 2020
- Painting the Bullseye: What Happens When We Lose Our Curiosity?May 6, 2020
- The Day You Decided to Take the LeapApril 29, 2020
- Why We Doubt OurselvesApril 22, 2020
- Write for Yourself, and Wisdom Will FollowApril 8, 2020
- Shocks, Setbacks, and the Slowdown of TimeMarch 26, 2020
- Finding Peace Within the PandemicMarch 18, 2020
- Philosophy Has Lost Its WayMarch 11, 2020
- It’s Mainstream to Hate the MainstreamFebruary 25, 2020
- Respect Is No Substitute for LoveFebruary 19, 2020
- Money Is the Megaphone of IdentityFebruary 5, 2020
- The Four Ancestral Wants: A Brief Dive into the Nature of DesireDecember 18, 2019
- How to Be Thankful for Your Life with One Simple ResetNovember 27, 2019
- What Makes Death Bad?November 20, 2019
- The Small Things Are Big Windows Into Who You AreNovember 13, 2019
- The Release Ratio: How to Make Use of Everything You KnowNovember 6, 2019
- What We Get Wrong About EvilOctober 28, 2019
- Happiness Is a Serious MatterOctober 23, 2019
- The Riddle of the Well-Paying, Pointless JobOctober 16, 2019
- Thankfully, Life Is Full of ProblemsOctober 9, 2019
- Are You My Friend?September 25, 2019
- Do You Really Believe What You Believe?September 18, 2019
- The Economics of Writing (And Why Now Is the Best Time to Do It)September 11, 2019
- The Finality of EverythingAugust 28, 2019
- Memory Is the Shadow of Fact, the Artifact of FeelingAugust 14, 2019
- Socrates: The Badass Godfather of UncertaintyJuly 24, 2019
- Self-Help and the Smuggling of ValuesJuly 10, 2019
- The Creator and the Crowd: Originality’s Balancing ActJune 19, 2019
- The Meaning of Life Is AbsurdJune 5, 2019
- Why Having a Wedding Makes SenseApril 9, 2019
- The Right Side of ThoughtMarch 20, 2019
- How to Calm the Anxious BrainMarch 6, 2019
- You Are Not Your Anxiety: A Journey Into the Anxious BrainFebruary 6, 2019
- The Garden You Can TouchOctober 23, 2018
- The Quest to the Unlived LifeOctober 1, 2018
- How Natural Selection Screwed UsJuly 25, 2018
- Death: The Roommate of LifeJune 20, 2018
- From Ignorance to Wisdom: A Framework for KnowledgeMay 2, 2018
- Knowledge Is Not a ThingApril 18, 2018
- Travel Is No Cure for the MindMarch 21, 2018