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01 Episteme — Knowledge
Build your life around what you need, not what you want
There are two forces that quietly shape every decision you make. A want. A need. They sometimes overlap, but most of the time a want is just an idea living in…
Read essayPerfection is the killer of speed, unless it’s the 911
Our whole lives, we have been sold the same idea. That perfection is what is needed. That it is what is expected of us, at every moment, in every decision, in…
Read essayDeath = Complacency
I am more scared of complacency than I am of death. That might sound dramatic, but sit with it for a second. Death is the end of the body. Complacency is the e…
Read essaySurrounded by Idiots
There is a book by Thomas Erikson called Surrounded by Idiots. It has sold over three million copies and been translated into more than forty languages. The pr…
Read essayWaffle is how you get rich
Stay with me on this one. There is a small detour through Belgium first. A Short History of the Waffle The waffle is older than most countries. Its origins str…
Read essayWhat makes a modern man
Times are changing. Places are changing. People are changing. And yet, the question of what it means to be a man feels harder to answer now than it ever has. T…
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