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By Frederik. I write about money and the search for a meaningful life.

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A Lesson on Obsession: Robert Caro and Mr. Beast

2024-09-18 23:43:38

How to successfully compete in the arena of attention.

Why Fortunes Are Lost (Why Money Work is Inner Work)

2024-09-14 00:36:45

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” ―C.G. Jung

How Eighty-One Dollars Made Lyndon Johnson

2024-09-09 05:10:38

"Every time it came tuition-paying time, I would [just about] get evicted. ... It was seventeen dollars, and I just never did have the money." - President Lyndon B. Johnson

Why Investors Are Like Mountaineers

2024-09-04 22:16:20

“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” — Edmund Hillary

🚶‍♂️‍➡️Silent Pilgrim (Allgäu-Zillertal)

2024-08-27 22:17:44

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.” ― William Blake

Telling Air from Glass

2024-08-24 16:10:08

"I am not the wise old fish. The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about." David Foster Wallace

Kreuzberg, New York, and the Momentum of Energy

2024-08-16 05:40:14

“Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of high performance.” ― Jim Loehr

America's Richest Printer

2024-08-10 23:51:15

Ben Franklin was on FIRE.

🚶Berlin & ✍️David Milch’s Favorite Writing Exercise

2024-08-09 17:05:39

"In the course of these exercises, the true categories of your imagination emerge, and they are absolutely different from what you think they are."

Chief Survival Officers

2024-08-06 23:26:41

"Above 26,000 feet, the line between appropriate zeal and reckless summit fever becomes grievously thin. Thus the slopes of Everest are littered with corpses." - Jon Krakauer

David Milch and the Alchemy of Writing

2024-08-05 03:28:44

“The process of storytelling, when it’s wrung from the heart, is a process of discovery, and self-discovery, and that has remained true with this work at this time.”

Green-Wood Cemetery, Opa, the Writer's Oddness, “Leave Malaya”

2024-08-02 01:23:54

"Synchronicity is an ever-present reality for those who have eyes to see." - Carl Jung

Jerry Seinfeld, Watchmaker

2024-07-31 00:58:37

"I am my job. Everything else in life pales by comparison." - Jerry Seinfeld

The Way South

2024-07-22 05:09:52

Even if the path of destiny is not clear, we must find a way to take it.

The Banker and the Fisherman

2024-06-26 05:26:04

Reach for the top with a hand in the mud.

Travel and the Anxiety of What Remains Unread

2024-06-14 01:17:56

Links and three takes on the canon.

Confident Communicators: What Roaring Kitty and Warren Buffett can teach us about the games we play

2024-06-09 23:34:49

“Ever since I was a kid, I liked playing games. I don’t know a single great trader who doesn’t. If doing this was about the money, I would have quit a long time ago." — Paul Tudor Jones

The Games We Play

2024-06-06 22:53:48

A simple framework to understand our programming.

How Losses Made Legends

2024-05-31 01:17:17

What if the pain of losing money was the best thing that could have happened to you?

Trading Places Was Real!

2024-05-24 00:33:17

What the turtle traders can teach us about the most important question in markets.