“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…
L’Eixample (pronounced lie-sham-pla) is not the Barcelona neighborhood you’ll find on postcards, but it is, in many ways, the neighborhood most emblematic of the city’s current day atmosphere. The neighborhood spreads across the center of the city in between the…
First, your dad won’t teach you, even though Spanish is his first language. You’ll hear him use it with his parents, your grandparents, who you can hardly communicate with. Your grandfather, who you call “Ito” because you won’t be able…
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Look, it’s easy for me to write what I’m excited to share. Like learning a language in a month by talking to topless women, or getting an internship with my childhood hero. This isn’t like that. It was hard to…