Homo Vitruvius and American Samizdat function properties for my weekly inventive writing and mental exploration. HV persists as my authentic and first Substack in these pursuits; AS arose in resistance to Trumpism and is devoted to its defeat. From memoir and poetry to fiction and drama, principally in HV, to historical past and political philosophy,…
Generally it’s brutally laborious to just accept life’s best truths, and but we should. As a result of it’s truths like these that in the end make our lives stunning… 1. Everybody and the whole lot in life is proscribed. You’ll be able to by no means learn all of the books you wish to…
The reality doesn’t stop to exist when it’s forgotten or ignored. You already know how one can hear or learn one thing dozens of occasions in varied methods earlier than it lastly sinks in? The truths listed under fall firmly into that class — timeless classes that many people most likely discovered years in the…
Cash. A supply of stress and unhappiness. But in addition a supply of freedom and of alternative. Like lots of people I’ve skilled loads of each side. However studying extra about cash and easy methods to handle it has over time positively lowered my stress, made me extra motivated and has made my life simpler….
My subsequent guide, Secrets and techniques of Maturity: Easy Truths for Our Advanced Lives, will probably be printed on April 1. On this guide, I’ve distilled the teachings I’ve discovered (and sometimes re-learned) the exhausting means. To specific these “secrets and techniques,” I’ve written greater than 2 hundred aphorisms. Folks have requested me, “Why write…