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“A mind with problems is not a serious mind.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti — Today is Saturday, the end of a gruesome week. This week, I wrote 7 articles for my blog. I published 12 answers on Quora. I wrote 2 long-form articles for my ghostwriting clients. I also worked on my upcoming essay collection and published one article in my premium newsletter. In…

A letter for my 18-year-old self. — Last week, I turned 25. I spent some time reflecting last week, and I had a weird realization. I realized that for the most part, right now, I’m very happy. When I was 18, on the other hand, I was not happy. I’d only been doing Jiu-Jitsu (the sport I’d…

What I learned from studying a 7-figure digital entrepreneur. — The other day, I was listening to Nicolas Cole and Dicky Bush’s podcast, The Digital Writing Podcast. The guest on this episode was an internet entrepreneur and digital content creator named Justin Welsh. I’d Welsh on Twitter, but I didn’t really know who he was. What I did know is…

I’ve never been more peaceful than I am right now. — Covered in my own blood. Feeling my aching joints. Constantly on the brink of exhaustion. That’s been my daily life for the last 12 months. No matter what day of the week it is or which week of the month it is, I’m always either a few days or weeks…

I take zero cold showers and my morning routine is complete garbage. — According to what most productivity experts say, I shouldn’t be able to get anything done. My morning routine is all over the place. Most mornings, I start writing articles that I haven’t planned at all. I don’t use any productivity apps. I procrastinate on difficult tasks sometimes. Yet still, my…

Accepting that my thoughts are not my reality was the key to overcoming imposter syndrome — One day in March, I woke up and nearly screamed at my boss through a zoom meeting. He wanted a blog post, a 1000-word Standard Operating Procedure document, and he wanted me to help a company launch its TikTok account — all by Friday. I was cutting weight for the…

Most young men are terrible at dating. Trust me, I used to be one. — Dating is... challenging, although that doesn’t even really feel like the right word to describe it. Good relationships don’t really feel super “challenging”. Dating itself isn’t even that complicated until you lace it with the commoditized version of romance we use in Western culture. …

Is this the year that everyone finally stops saying I’m a kid? — Today I turned 25. This article is shorter than most of my articles, but it honestly took a bit more thought and research than most of the stuff I publish here. I had to think about the whole last year. 365 days is kind of a long time. Usually, I…

A brief guide to optimistic nihilism. — Growing up, my dad used to go on these ridiculous rants at the dinner table about how the world was a horrible place. Usually, it was toward the end of the meal, when he was half drunk, half joking, and making a deliberate effort to piss everyone off. I wish…