Hard work and goodwill | Seth’s Blog
The other day, Tom Cruise gave a long acceptance speech. But unlike every other speech of its kind, there were no notes. No rambling. No […]
Pablo Neruda’s Staggering (Un)breakup Poem – The Marginalian
Love is a fire that takes two to keep burning, but one to extinguish — if the hearth of either heart is too damp with […]
The Science and Spirituality of Nature’s Grounded Cloud – The Marginalian
One day not long after I moved to New York, I looked up from my writing desk at a shared studio space on the Brooklyn […]
Caveman economics
Marshall Sahlins and others showed that early hunter gatherer societies generally didn’t work very hard. Two or three hours a day were spent gathering food, […]
Artist and Poet Rachel Hébert’s Breathtaking Catalogue of Gratitudes – The Marginalian
Here we are, living these lives bright and perishable as a poppy, hard and shimmering as obsidian. We know that they are entirely improbable, that […]
All the cards | Seth’s Blog
If someone hands you a deck, you can be sure there are 52 cards covering four suits. The universe is finite. The cards are the […]
Captaincy | Seth’s Blog
I’m not sure this is the right word for it, but we certainly need one. Not ‘entrepreneurship’ which is a distinct skill. That term is […]
A Lullaby of Wonder for the Sleepless, Inspired by the Whimsy of South India – The Marginalian
You know that moment late into the night when the body, famished for rest, is kidnapped from the land of sleep by a mind aflame […]
How to Fix Breakdowns in Communication – The Marginalian
Two people meet, discover an uncommon electricity flowing between them, exhilarate each other into forgetting the abyss that always gapes between one consciousness and another, […]
A good business vs. a useful idea
Ideas open doors, lead to connections and make things better. But not all good ideas are good businesses. Crop rotation is a good idea. So […]
