Laughing at you behind your back
Laughing at you behind your back | Seth’s Blog If that’s not happening, it’s possible you’re not being bold enough, generous enough or creative enough. […]
Swimming and the Meaning of Life – The Marginalian
One of my earliest and most vivid childhood memories is of swimming in a cool pool bounded by boulders in the middle of a river […]
John Steinbeck’s Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular – The Marginalian
The hardest state for a human being to sustain is that of open-endedness. We may know that uncertainty is the crucible of creativity, we may […]
The second thing | Seth’s Blog
The second thing | Seth’s Blog It’s useful and satisfying to have people go along with your wishes and your taste. But hoping that they’ll […]
The Patience of the Penguin and the Art of Withstanding Abandonment – The Marginalian
“Let us love this distance which is wholly woven of friendship, for those who do not love each other are not separated,” Simone Weil wrote […]
Virginia Woolf on How We Come to Know the World – The Marginalian
The great myth is that truth is an emergent property of fact, that it bubbles up from the bottom of reality once the mind attains […]
The night clerk | Seth’s Blog
At 2:30 in the morning, the night clerk at the hotel is a great help if you’ve locked yourself out of your room. But if […]
Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life – The Marginalian
We are each born with a wilderness of possibility within us. Who we become depends on how we tend to our inner garden — what […]
An Extraordinary Letter from Pioneering Education Reformer Elizabeth Peabody – The Marginalian
“A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living,” Virginia Woolf wrote in one of her characteristic asides of immense insight […]
“Here’s a pillow the cat didn’t pee on”
“Here’s a pillow the cat didn’t pee on” | Seth’s Blog Highlighting the non-existent negative is confusing. “Don’t be late,” isn’t as useful as, “We’re […]
