Where do bad choices come from?
We all make them from time to time. You might not know what you need to know. This is where experience is created. You might […]
Hemingway’s Advice on Writing, Ambition, and His Reading List of Essential Books for Aspiring Writers – The Marginalian
“As a writer you should not judge. You should understand,” Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) counseled in his 1935 Esquire compendium of writing […]
A Beautiful Anatomy of Loss, Illustrated by Quentin Blake – The Marginalian
“Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be,” Joan Didion wrote after losing the love of her life. “The people we […]
A persistent sense of being correctly located in time
Word salad is actually nutritious when consumed in small amounts. Placebos are real, they’re effective and they often help us find solace or perhaps to […]
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How Storytelling Rewires Us and Why Befriending Our Neediness Is Essential for Happiness – The Marginalian
“The power of ‘the Eye of the Heart,’ which produces insight, is vastly superior to the power of thought, which produces opinions,” the great British […]
Nick Cave on Creative Work as an Instrument of Self-Forgiveness and the Courage of Hope in Cynical Times – The Marginalian
The world reveals itself through our engagement with it — a truth as true in the “It for Bit” sense of physics as it in […]
Long odds and unseen differences
“The odds of winning the lottery are the same whether you buy a ticket or not.” This seems nonsensical at first. Obviously, there are lottery […]
Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul – The Marginalian
It is an ongoing mystery: What makes you and your childhood self the same person. Across a lifetime of physiological and psychological change, some center […]
Corrective for a Broken Heart – The Marginalian
By Maria Popova “Life will break you,” Louise Erdrich wrote in her passionate insistence that “you are here to risk your heart.” It can happen […]
The end of the content shortage
You can be fashionable without reading Vogue. You can be informed without watching the nightly news. You can be smart about science without going to […]
