Reflections What Chiang Mai Taught Me About Doing Less
A month in northern Thailand will rearrange your relationship with productivity. Mine came back lighter.
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Reflections Anthony Bourdain and the Discipline of Showing Up Hungry
Bourdain's whole career was built on one unglamorous rule: eat what's offered, ask real questions, and never pretend you already know the answer.
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Reflections Alex Honnold and the Fear That Didn't Show Up
In 2017 he climbed 3,000 feet of vertical granite with no rope, no gear, and no margin for error. The scientists who scanned his brain wanted to know why he wasn't afraid. The real answer was less comfortable than 'he just isn't.'
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Reflections Wendell Berry Found Peace Where the Wood Drake Floats
A farmer-poet wrote one of the most quoted poems of the last century about lying down where a duck floats on still water. He wasn't being precious about it. He was describing an exit.
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Reflections Mary Oliver Had One Question
Mary Oliver spent most of her life walking through marshes and writing about what she saw. She also wrote one question that has never stopped being relevant.
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Reflections Feynman and the Permission Nobody Actually Needs
A Nobel Prize winner spent a chunk of his career learning to play the bongos, crack safes, and draw nude models, mostly because he refused to do the thing everyone else does, which is wait for permission to be curious.
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Reflections Bruce Lee and the Shape of Water
Be water, making its way through cracks. Lee meant it as combat advice. It works just as well as a theory of how to live.
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Reflections John Muir and Going Out Was Really Going In
John Muir spent years walking into the Sierra Nevada to get away from people. He came back calling it 'going home.' The wording was not an accident.
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Reflections Shackleton and the Plan That Went Wrong Immediately
Ernest Shackleton set out to cross Antarctica. The ship got stuck in ice before he reached land. He kept all 27 men alive anyway. No one crossed Antarctica.
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Reflections We Travel to Lose Ourselves. The Hard Part Is Letting It Happen.
Pico Iyer said we travel first to lose ourselves, then to find ourselves. He was right about both. Most of us skip the first part entirely.
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Reflections The Hardest Thing About Arriving Somewhere New
Ibn Battuta walked 75,000 miles across the known world in the 1300s. He had a lot of opinions about arrival.
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Reflections The Wrecks Under Chuuk Lagoon
Fifty feet below the Pacific, a Japanese destroyer has been growing coral since 1944. What exploration leaves on you is not always what you expected to carry.
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