Free Livestream This Friday – The Marginalian
At the dawn of my twenties, lonely, destitute, and disoriented by the demands of making a new life in an alien world, I started keeping […]
A good worker | Seth’s Blog
The truth is, I’m not a good worker. I’ve had very few traditional jobs, and my performance on typical tasks was poor. Work the exact […]
Nobel Laureate Bertrand Russell’s Salve for the Anxiety of Overwhelm – The Marginalian
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own […]
Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection – The Marginalian
Friendship is the sunshine of life — the quiet radiance that makes our lives not only livable but worth living. (This is why we must […]
The unreliable witness | Seth’s Blog
The unreliable witness | Seth’s Blog It might be us. Even when there are photos, videos or tape recordings, people find that they can’t agree […]
Hermann Hesse on How to Read a Book and How to Read Yourself – The Marginalian
Books show us what it is like to be another and at the same time return us to ourselves. We read to learn how to […]
James Baldwin on How Love (Finally) Finds You – The Marginalian
Our language betrays our self-betrayals: We speak of finding love, as if it were an undiscovered eighth continent or a habitable world in another solar […]
Productive dissatisfaction | Seth’s Blog
Productive dissatisfaction | Seth’s Blog When focused on the things we can change, dissatisfaction is a powerful tool. Accepting everything else–the parts we can’t or […]
How to Doubt Your Way into a Truer Life – The Marginalian
The most maddening thing about life is also the most beautiful: its indeterminacy. The course of our lives, the fate of our species, the future […]
Vincent van Gogh on Fear, Taking Risks, and How Inspired Mistakes Propel Us Forward – The Marginalian
During our recent conversation at the Boston Book Festival, the wise and wonderful Amanda Palmer spoke about the harrowing experience of watching her best friend […]
