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Deep Life Notes
Thoughts and observations on living deliberately in modern life.
Deep Life Notes is an ongoing collection of thoughts and observations on living deliberately in modern life.
Drawing from psychology, philosophy, history, technology, and everyday experience and reflection, these pieces explore work, craft, attention, identity, change, ageing, meaning, and living well in a modern world.
Deep Life Notes is currently being revised and refined. Some older entries are being updated into a clearer, more consistent format.
A Different Tomorrow
We make decisions for a person we haven’t yet become, often forgetting how much we still have left to change.
Your Strengths = Your Success
We spend too much time repairing weaknesses when some of our best growth comes from understanding what already comes naturally.
Thirty Years Since Being 17
There is no single path in life. There are many versions of us, and most of them have to be discovered by living.
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We do not have one self to protect, but several to negotiate. And sometimes the self that wins is the one that ruins us.