On the long project of learning.
On reading carefully, learning slowly, and finishing what you start. No newsletter wall — just read.
On finishing the books on your shelf
Most reading fails not because we lack discipline, but because the reading has no shape that survives a Tuesday. On how to actually finish the books on your shelf — and why the shelf itself is a working document.
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What Stoicism actually is
A Hellenistic school founded in Athens around 300 BCE — not a self-help genre. The school the Stoics actually built.
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How the Stoics actually lived day-to-day
The morning meditation, the evening review, the dichotomy of control in practice — sourced from Marcus, Seneca, and Epictetus.
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Stoicism in 20 minutes a day
The case for slow reading, and the four books worth starting with — Meditations, Discourses, the Enchiridion, and Hadot.
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Why streaks mislead
What the engagement literature actually shows, what a broken streak teaches a brain, and why closure is the better unit.
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What actually makes a habit
The cue–routine–reward loop, where it lives in the brain, and what the research under the popular books actually says.
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The environment, not the willpower
Wendy Wood's forty years of research point one way — habits live in context, not character. The leverage is environmental.
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What to do when the streak breaks
The recovery, not the run. Why the second miss matters more than the first — and what the research says to do about it.
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The three schools of negotiation
Fisher-Ury on interests, Voss on tactical empathy, Bazerman and Malhotra on cognitive biases — where they disagree.
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Principled vs tactical: Fisher-Ury and Voss
The Harvard school and the FBI school disagree about where to start. Each is right in different rooms.
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What the cognitive biases actually are
Bazerman, Malhotra, and what thirty years of research at Harvard documented about how negotiators actually reason.
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