Invitation to Slow Living You need silence to imagine a brighter future. Your mind requires boredom to carve out a destiny for yourself. In a world full of distractions, boredom is no longer a mere “productivity hack”—it’s one of the highest virtues.

To live well, don’t look for answers. Learn to love the questions. Life is much more about wonder, adventure, and reflection rather than evidence, order, and direction.

Be proud if you’re working on some sort of artistic, cultural, or entrepreneurial project. Even though you’re not rich. You’re entitled to be a tad arrogant. You have skin in the game. Whether we like it or not, risk-takers build the world; and most employees benefit from their courage.

Going back to my favorite author, what I picked up from Nicolás Dávila is a quirky way to write called scholia. I’ve been aware of this tactic for a long time—since I’m formally trained in law—but I was yet to get seduced by it until I discovered his work. Scholia are comments and meditations that emerge thanks to a clear source such as an essay or

My “Business” Structure Calendar Sovereignty: Ability to grab coffee with friends whenever I want, play basketball on Tuesday, and work when most people travel and travel when most people work.[4] Audience Sovereignty: Loyal (maybe digital) community that financially and critically supports my craft (hi there)—let’s say that the magic number is

Being in a rush by default is a declaration of slavery. This is no exaggeration; even if you’re the CEO, the big boss—if you sit at the top of a hierarchy—the truth is, you fail to be in control of your life. Yet this toxic and contagious urge to do everything in a rush is no longer simply tolerated or normalized but rewarded. Being busy is a

Good philosophers start with theory and end up with action. Great philosophers start with action and end up with theory.

To innovate, as Arthur Schopenhauer put it, “the task is not so much to see what nobody else has seen but to think what nobody else has thought about that which everybody sees.” You want to enjoy a helicopter view over various subjects while having the capacity to land anywhere. You want to be able to bring in freshness, reject consensus, and

Even if you “read” all of the books from your library, it doesn’t mean much. The beauty of reading is about rereading. The beauty of reading is about the actions you take and all of the reflections that get triggered thanks to the material in front of you.