But perhaps I have to stop experiencing my writing as a want and instead as a need. Writing is not a luxury, something to do in my spare time, when the stars are aligned and the kids are safely asleep and there are no dishes in the sink. Writing is a necessity for me, as ...
To Save America, We Must Abolish the United States America Needs YOU to Become An Extraordinary American An Extraordinary Christian An Extraordinary Human Being Unfortunately, as it stands right now, you are A pathetic American A Christian-in-name-only who makes Jesus puke A waste of awesome ...
Not only are they going to reduce the amount of stress you’re feeling over a situation but they’re also going to help you find better solutions that you may have thought up before. Lesson 2: Stop Living In The Future Right now is there anything IMMEDIATELY that you need to worry about...
This Christmas , we are reminded again that THAT is what we are called to be. We are invited to be God-bearers to the world. We are the ones that can bring the light of Christ into the places of darkness in our lives and in our world. Jesus was born in that stable over 2000 ye...
JLM: When Elon Musk challenges Mark Zuckerberg to an MMA fight, everyone laughs but he ridicules the ecosystem. In a less visible way, the positions taken by Peter Thiel or Marc Andreessen are just as sulphurous, and give the impression of a caste that believes itself above ordinary mortals....
An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you’re present in the current moment; when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing; when you are fully alive. The act of writing draws us into the moment. We see...
Music’s power to latch itself on to our memories is truly remarkable: a single song can completely transport the listener back into that mood in ways that mere recollection cannot. They are an easy ticket for re-experiencing the past. But sometimes we associate them with memories that are ...
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particularly as it relates to being in the moment which kind of connects with all these other spiritual traditions. And you are talking about experiencing that in a very real way. And I don’t want to just blow past it like, “Well, you know and other actors.” No man it was signific...
Chris Best, you are the co-founder and CEO of Substack. Welcome back to Decoder. Thanks for having me. It has been a little over two years since you’ve been on the show. We were both effectively babies when that conversation happened. Substack had just started, I had just started w...