The topics center around cognition, critical thinking, meta-learning, psychology, practical philosophy, and self-education.

Each edition provides resources, insights, and strategies to improve your thinking, learning, and living.

Reading (probably)

Learning how to live

Learning how to write well

Summarizing the books I'm reading

Sending out Mind Macros every Thursday

Managing an audio sample library company

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. — Marcus Aurelius

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. — Richard Feynman

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. — Carl Sagan

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. — Seneca

Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it. ― Vaclav Havel

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. ― Epicurus

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. ― Confucius

Do not wish that all things will go well with you, but that you will go well with all things. — Epictetus

I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. ― Rumi

We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training. — Archilochus

Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents. — Epictetus

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean. — Confucius

When you grow up, you tend to get told the world is the way that it is, and your life is just to live your life inside the world and try not to bash into the walls too much. But that's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact. And that is that everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that are no smarter than you. And you can change it. You can influence it. You can build your own things that other people can use. To shake off this erroneous notion that life is just there, and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it. Change it, improve it. Make your mark upon it. And once you learn that, you'll never be the same again. — Steve Jobs

They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds. ― Alexandra Boutopoulou

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. ― Rumi

Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. — Lao Tzu

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. ― William Shakespeare

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. — Theodore Roosevelt