Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peace – The Marginalian
“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the […]
KnotChat: Jennifer Myers Chua | Seth’s Blog
KnotChat: Jennifer Myers Chua | Seth’s Blog Jennifer is a marketer, project manager and impresario. We’ve worked together on projects, and it’s always a delight. […]
A Field Guide to Enlightened Enchantment – The Marginalian
Enchantment, J.R.R. Tolkien believed, is “as necessary for the health and complete functioning of the Human as is sunlight for physical life.” But enchantment is […]
Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety – The Marginalian
“The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is,” Kurt […]
KnotChat: Rodrigo Delavina Simon | Seth’s Blog
KnotChat: Rodrigo Delavina Simon | Seth’s Blog Who’s it for? This problem you’re solving–is it your problem or are you focused on someone else? I […]
The Science of Waiting and the Art of Delay – The Marginalian
By Maria Popova “We never live; we are always in the expectation of living,” Voltaire famously lamented. This tension between anticipation and impatience, indeed, seems […]
In Defense of the Invisible Labors of Creativitiy – The Marginalian
Once, at the gym with a physicist friend, I was struck by how no one else in the room had any idea that while she […]
Disconcerting genre shift | Seth’s Blog
If you sit down to watch a documentary and realize, about ten minutes in, that it’s actually a feature film, everything about it feels off […]
André Gregory’s Extraordinary Letter to Richard Avedon about the Nature of Creativity – The Marginalian
Half a millennium into our recovery from the civilizational wound Descartes inflicted by severing the body and the mind, we are bleeding with a Cartesian […]
Or, How to Bear Your Loneliness – The Marginalian
On July 26, 2022, as I was living through a period of acute loneliness despite being a naturally solitary person, NASA reported that computer modeling […]
