Practical wisdom from old texts and good books

Short videos and notes on focus, energy, habits, work and emotions, from old texts and good books. Every page carries the video and the words it speaks.

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Voss — the emotion is the negotiation, and the cost of...

The reasoning arrives after the feeling does. So the feeling is the thing being negotiated. Which works beautifully once. The tools were shaped for a room you leave. Nobody built them for the table you sit at again tomorrow.

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Every page carries the video and the words it speaks. Two kinds of lesson: Vedic Wisdom, from old texts read closely, and Practical Wisdom, one idea from a good book at a time.

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Summaries of non-fiction books we have read, in our own words. Most carry a spoken version on the page.

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