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Consider the Lobster
An exploration of the annual Maine Lobster Festival, its history, cultural significance, and the strange paradox of lobster being considered a high-class delicacy despite its lowly origins.
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“Solitude and Leadership,” William Deresiewicz
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
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Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
This was the first of many experiences in which I pushed past the default setting of how I was supposed to be living.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
... See moreThe aspect of Scott Buchanan’s life to which this memoir relates began, for me at least, with a college lecture he gave in October of 1944.
The lecture was a flight of high speculative fancy in which he tried to imagine the features of a Republic of Learning joined with a political republic.
If man is a political animal, his virtues compromised and
In the arc of history, the freedom to explore the possibilities of our lives is a relatively recent phenomenon.