Rob Tourtelot
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Rob Tourtelot
Find the moment in your story that everyone has been waiting for, then flip that Hourglass and let the sand run.
Dan Kennedy • Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
Navigating mystery humbles us, reminds us with every step that we don’t know everything, are not, in fact, the masters of all.
Emergence Magazine • Navigating the Mysteries
📣 Public Speaking: Embodying Safety with Pim Ruhe
youtube.comAround 2019, my focus shifted from asking “who’s fucking with me?” to asking “how do I continue to fuck with myself?” Once you finally break away from seeing other people your most important puzzle to solve, then I think you can move on to more interesting puzzles, and eventually you put the puzzles on a high shelf, breathe in the air, and savor yo... See more
Talking about friendship with Heather Havrilesky
Indeed, when Kant's friend Funk died, he found himself forced to confront what is in some ways the ultimate example of the instant of change: the fact that all that we love will pass, including life itself. Even more poignantly, the very ineradicable nature of that constant, irresistible erosion of the present is what endows our life and the attach
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We’ve gotten so damn good at making products with good physical attributes that the commercial war of the future will be about identity rather than value —Iannaccone
How the Logic of Cults Is Taking Over Modern Life
Plain English with Derek Thompson
On the Sublime:
In the presence of the sublime, we are made to feel desperately small. In most of life, a sense of our smallness is experienced as a humiliation (when it happens, for example, at the hands of a professional enemy or a concierge). But the impression of smallness that unfolds in the presence of the Sublime has an oddly uplifting and pr
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