I was speaking with a friend not long ago, someone who spends his hours alongside me in the work we call charity. He told me that he enjoys the work but it is not his life. The remark stayed with me, almost like an echo that does not fade. It…
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Alone Together: How Technology Connects Us While Making Us Lonely
Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together is one of those books that hangs around in your mind long after you’ve closed it, not because of any particular shocking revelation, but because it quietly exposes the contradictions of modern life we all feel but rarely stop to name. Turkle, a clinical psychologist and…
From Birds to Banks: What Nature Can Teach Us About True Wealth
It has always seemed to me that nature, in her quiet dignity, never once conceived of interest rates or compound debt, and yet she manages her affairs with far greater efficiency than any bank on earth. She keeps no ledgers, yet her books are always balanced. A bird eats a…
The Man Who Quit Money: What Daniel Suelo’s Radical Life Teaches Us About Freedom
In The Man Who Quit Money, Mark Sundeen follows the radical life experiment of Daniel Suelo, a man who in 2000 walked away from his last thirty dollars and has lived without money ever since. The book is not a romantic fable about renunciation so much as a searching inquiry…
You Can’t Get Enough of What You Don’t Need: The Real Secret to Happiness
There’s a saying I came across recently, probably in one of the thousands of YouTube videos that I tend to get lost in: You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy. At the time, I dismissed it as one of those lines people post…
Why Living in Balance with the World Makes Sense
Thomas Sowell once said there are no solutions, only trade offs. That thought hits hard because it feels both frustrating and freeing at the same time. We like to believe that if we just try hard enough, if we make the right plan, we can fix things once and for…
Eric Hoffer Was Right: Rudeness Is Just Weakness in Disguise
Eric Hoffer said that rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength. That little sentence has been pounding in my head like my neighbor, who is the drummer for a death metal band, ever since I came across it. The worst part is, I know exactly what he means because…
Contentment vs. Fulfillment: Why Being and Becoming Are Not the Same
Fulfillment, if it is to be understood in any serious way, must be distinguished from the more fleeting states of pleasure or contentment. Pleasure is transient, contentment is momentary, but fulfillment is of a different order altogether. It is not the mere quieting of desire, nor the passing satisfaction of…
How Time Co-ops are Similar to SUSU – but different
A time cooperative can be understood in the same spirit as the long tradition of SUSU, though the type of exchange is different. In SUSU, people strengthen one another by contributing money into a shared pool, creating a rhythm of giving and receiving that ensures no member is left unsupported….
Why the Wealthiest People Aren’t the Ones Who Keep the Most
We grow up under the spell of numbers. Numbers in bank accounts, numbers on price tags, numbers that are supposed to tell us whether we are succeeding or failing in life. From childhood, the lesson is clear: gather as much as you can and guard it well. The more you…