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🧁 It's My Birthday, So Ask Me Anything!

I'm all ears! An open call to ask questions about ancient history, parenting, startups, productivity methods, or whatever.

20 hrs ago •

November 2023

🌠 Reflections on Sharpening Your Mind

Obsidian is a bootstrapped company with a new(ish, at this point) slogan that I love.

Nov 25 •

🎓 On leadership and dealing with the enemy

A review of the nonfiction book 'Tyrants of Syracuse' by Jeff Champion.

Nov 18 •

📚 Cognitive Catalysts: Lists, Learning, & Leverage

Micro reviews of nonfiction I read recently. On ancient memes, Ghana's legacy, ambitious goals, better search engines & improved smartphone habits.

Nov 11 •

🎓 On Sacrifice: the real kind, with corpses

An investigation of historic rituals involving the killing of humans. Why is this even a thing?

Nov 4 •

October 2023

📚 Scavengers, Shipwrecks, & Surcharges: 7 Insights to Prompt (our) Writing

A weird fact or insight for every day of (the first week of) November, just in time for National Novel Writing Month... or Essay Camp 👀

Oct 31 •

🌲 On the Difficulty of Being Pithy

Bylines vs clever pitches, and remembering to share ideas that are difficult to sum up.

Oct 28 •

🎓 Practical Religion: Ancient Rituals as 'Vaccination'

Many religious rituals make practical sense. And the ancients had some pretty practical ways of handling plagues.

Oct 18 •

🌲 Takeaways on efficiency, passive learning, & optimization

Thoughts on how to take notes that actually matter.

Oct 11 •

💚 Quick Update, + How Can I Help You?

An attempt to do right by people who financially supported me.

Oct 10 •

📚 Reading Roundup: On Intellectual Endurance

Micro reviews of nonfiction I read recently. On the value of grit, adaptation, play, and making time to learn. Plus: Vikings!

Oct 2 •

September 2023

🏄‍♀️ State of the Eleanor 03

I had a baby. The Obsidian ecosystem has evolved. Find out what that means for the Obsidian Iceberg 👀

Sep 25 •

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