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Jan 5 10 tweets 3 min read
Notes from today’s reading of A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells us About Sexual Relationships. 🧵

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Oct 9, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
Thread 🧵: Lessons from Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker.

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Jul 9, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Thread 🧵: On dealing with insults and annoying people.

Some notes from the book A Guide to The Good Life by William B. Irvine. One of my favorite books of all time.

Do you have any annoying people in your life?! 🧐

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Apr 12, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
3 key concepts from The Comfort Crisis. 🧵 thread!

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Feb 22, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read
Book review - Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse. Thread 🧵

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Feb 16, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
3 Key Concepts from The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter. Thread 🧵

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Feb 15, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
6 Powerful quotes from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Thread 🧵

#reading #stoic #books Meditations by Marcus Aurelius- Stoic classic! 1.
Nov 28, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
6 Important lessons from stoicism

A philosophy thread. 🧵

#reading #stoic #books Stillness is the key, the daily stoic, on the shortness of l 1️⃣ Focus on what’s up to you. Ignore what is not.
Nov 27, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying listed.

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Oct 18, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
These are the most common regrets according to Top Five Regrets of the Dying. Thread 🧵

#reading #nonfiction #books Regret 1️⃣: I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
Oct 17, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
6 Important lessons from stoicism

A philosophy thread.

#reading #books #stoicism Books like Meditations, Liv... 1️⃣ Focus on what’s up to you. Ignore what is not.
Sep 1, 2022 9 tweets 3 min read
Book Review Thread 🧵 : Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse

#reading #nonfiction #books Finite and infinite games by James P. Carse There are only two types of games.
May 1, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
The most common deathbed regrets:

Thread! 🧵

#reading #nonfiction #books The covers of The Denial of Death, On the Shortness of Life Regret 1: ‘I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.’
Apr 30, 2022 7 tweets 1 min read
6 important lessons from Stoic philosophy

Philosophy tread. 🧵

#stoicism #philosophy Focus on what’s up to you. Ignore what is not.