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.
On Turning 40October 8, 2025
“Is There More to Life Than This?”September 2, 2025
Tales From the Island of IllnessJuly 22, 2025
The Poison of StatusJuly 14, 2025
The Story of My First BookJune 24, 2025
Ending the Anger EconomyMay 7, 2025
Our Last 2 MoatsApril 9, 2025
Everything Will Be OkayMarch 4, 2025
The Skill That Will Never DieJanuary 28, 2025
On Fleeing the InfernoJanuary 14, 2025
The Three Types of WritingJanuary 7, 2025
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