Preface: This piece went out to my newsletter in July 2022 while I was in Barcelona. If you enjoy this piece, then you'll my monthly newsletter where I reflect on one or two key lessons or top-of-mind ideas from the previous month. Subscribe here. This piece was the foundation for what would become my essay … Continue reading July 2022 Newsletter: Orwell is a Writer Worth Stealing
Category: Personal Essays
Learning an Endangered Language: Catalan Immersion and Why Language Diversity Matters
When I was in 8th grade, my family in a small town in Vermont hosted an exchange student from Barcelona, Spain. Barcelona, unbeknownst to me at the time, is the capital of a region called Catalonia, which, for as long as the romance languages all broke off from Latin, has spoken its own language, called … Continue reading Learning an Endangered Language: Catalan Immersion and Why Language Diversity Matters
Reflections on Zafón’s Angel’s Game, Holiday’s Canvas Strategy, and How I Knew I Was Blunting My Creative Soul
“Don’t worry about credit… be a canvas for other people to paint on,” Ryan Holiday writes in his essay The Canvas Strategy. I still remember reading it my senior year of high school in the pages of Ego Is The Enemy, lying on the couch in my parent's living room. It wasn’t just that I … Continue reading Reflections on Zafón’s Angel’s Game, Holiday’s Canvas Strategy, and How I Knew I Was Blunting My Creative Soul
David William Rosales 