A Guide To Peak Human Performance Part One
Sunday Letters
Welcome to the Sunday Letters archive. Here you'll find all editions of the newsletter from 2015. Sunday Letters is a conversation I'm having with myself. It attempts to address the psychology and philosophy of living the good life in the face of rapid technological change. It is the pursuit of an answer to a question. Thanks for being here.
[Bonus] Beyond An Economy of Work & Spend
Listen now (24 min) | Reading from a speech by Juliet Schor, author of The Overworked American, to students at Tilburg University in 1997
On The Merit of Doing Nothing
Listen now (38 min) | Being busy versus taking time to contemplate oneself
You Abstract Working Mule of A Human
On our alienation through work and the absence of an identity
The Magic of Donald Thomas
Listen now (35 min) | Deliberate practice and the stubborn belief that talent, ability, and skills are born and not made
Talent: You Either Have It Or You Don’t
For some, talent seems innate and success is effortless. For most others, however, the heights of creative success remains out of reach. So are we born talented or not?
What work do you do?
Be a part of the research that will form the forthcoming book; The Paradox of Work (working title). I want to know what work you do, how it make…