maya angelou on the city soul and the country soul

a few days ago i learned about maya angelou’s theory about people having a country soul or a city soul):

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the repulsive reality of expensive spirituality

another insight spurred by last sunday’s conversation with my buddy ambroise is in the lane of money and spirituality.

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random train encounter: m

tbh, i’m not totally sure why i’m writing about this, but here goes anyways.

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on college drinking culture: alcoholism, toxic masculinity, sexual repression, homoeroticism, numbing, and more!

every 2-3 weeks(ish) i talk on the phone with my friend ambroise. over the past four or five years he’s become one of my closest friends, for sure. he lives in paris and even though the time difference could keep us from talking, we make it work. we have such good conversations and it’s just a really nice thing.

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negative emotions are poor drivers of systemic change

on of the books i’m reading right now is focus: the hidden driver of excellence by daniel goleman. i mentioned in my last post about the book that it’s pretty poorly written (and that continues to feel true), but there are definitely some interesting insights.

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