From the category archives:
I love it when two great (but unrelated) things get mashed together. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Jane Austen’s Fight Club.
It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty damn close. (For those of you who need some context: Fight Club is one of my favorite movies, and not because of the fighting — it’s about much [...]
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Tonight I read Michael Pollan’s latest book, Food Rules which is a short list of 64 guidelines for eating right. These are based on the findings in his last book, In Defense of Food, the thesis of which was:
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Pollan’s food rules build on these three main points to create [...]
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Ayn Rand influenced my intellectual development. My personal philosophy has been greatly influenced by her philosophy. But I think she missed some the boat on certain issues. Here’s an article from Nathaniel Branden that explores some of the things she got right — and some of the things she got wrong.
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Kris and I spent last weekend at the coast with Micahel and Laura and their two children. I found a great used bookstore, but I also found time to indoctrinate the kids in the joys of comic books.
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But that’s missing the point that those articles are really about you, not them…All that really matters is what you do with the ideas there. Apply them to your own life in your own way. It was never about them. It’s about you.
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