July 2022 Newsletter: Orwell is a Writer Worth Stealing

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

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