This Hobby Can Change Your Life
I have a hobby and it’s weird. It started in a pretty normal way. I’d always liked taking walks and then I had young kids. Because it was often the only way I could get them to sleep–or to keep them
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This is Literally The Least You Can Do (But It Means A Lot)
I feel like every few weeks I am surprised when I pass by the Bastrop County Courthouse on my way to my office at the bookstore. First, I start seeing the little bunches of campaign signs. Then I see
The Reading List: October 2026
It was a pretty exhausting but beautiful October. I flew to London on the redeye from Austin, gave a talk, flew to LAX, drove to San Diego, gave a talk, flew to Sacramento to see my grandmother and
They Don’t Want You To Read These 8 Banned Books (But I Think Everyone Should)
“We’re coming for the books.” I guess we can appreciate the Lieutenant Governor of Texas saying the quiet part out loud, but if you were one of the people who thought this whole ‘banned books’ thing
10 Lessons It Took Me 10 Years To Understand
I’d put in my hours. 482 weeks. 3,379 days. That’s how long I’d been studying the Stoics when I sat down to write the Daily Stoic. I was 29 years old and I knew enough to write a couple-hundred-page