“I don’t like work. No man does. But I like what is in the work — The chance to find yourself.” -Joseph Conrad
The Reading List
December 2017
You’re Dying Before Your Time : Seneca’s Advice
“If such people want to know how short their lives are, let them reflect how small a portion is their own.” – Seneca
Best Lines From Kerouac’s On The Road
“I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.” – Jack Kerouac
7 Leadership Lessons From The Battlefield
“As in war, so in life.” – Robert Greene
The Reading List
November 2017
The Narrative Fallacy
“…All over America high school and college kids thinking ‘Jack Kerouac is 26 years old and on the road all the time hitch hiking’…While there I am almost 40 years old, bored and jaded.” – Jack Kerouac
What’s It To You?
“From the beauty of Islam is that one leaves that which has no meaning for him.” (Hadith narrated by Tirmizi)
Quick Bites : Go To Work
“When they’re really possessed by what they do, they’d rather stop eating and sleeping than give up practicing their arts.” – Marcus Aurelius
Accepting Everything That Happens
“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati : that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
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