Philosophy

Letter from Lincoln (In Memoriam of Dr. King)

Preface I read Dr. King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” every year on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. It’s one of the most powerful pieces of ethical writing throughout the history of humanity. Every year, I learn something different from it; every year, there is a piece of it that resounds within me in a [...]

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Plastic Soup, Deformed Turtles, and Getting Over Ourselves

I saw the picture above yesterday and my heart sank. I found it here, and while the article was powerful in relation to what’s going on with the large plastic dumps on either side of Hawaii, the turtle is what broke me. I’ve been trying to figure out why. Maybe because I had turtles as [...]

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History, Luck, and Intention

Our lives are the product of history, luck, and intention. These three factors interplay so much that it can be impossible sometimes to tell which one is the force at play. The movie “Recount” was actually the catalyst for this post. The film recounts the debacle of democracy that happened in the presidential election of [...]

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What Makes an Act Courageous?

This last week has been a bit strange on the writing front – I’ve mentally written a lot of posts, but I haven’t actually written them. Now we’ll just have to see whether they actually materialize into something worth reading. The reason for the strangeness of the week has been due to me being on [...]

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The 3 Key Ideas from Aristotle That Will Help You Flourish

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about Aristotelian ethics here lately…partly due to me teaching it a few weeks ago but even more so due to me thinking about personal development issues. The concept “flourish” has become the predominant concept that’s began to infuse most of my thinking about GTD, personal development, and life, [...]

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