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A neighbor was suing my father over some property dispute during his illness, but if you tried to talk to him about such practical matters he’d just sing you old songs like “A Bird in a Gilded Cage” in a silly, quavering falsetto until you gave up. He cared less about things that didn’t matter and more about the things that did. It was during his i
... See moreTim Kreider • We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
Then he began: “You pig, I have been watching you the whole time! I’ll teach you to work, yet! Wait till you dig dirt with your teeth—you’ll die like an animal! In two days I’ll finish you off! You’ve never done a stroke of work in your life. What were you, swine? A businessman?” I was past caring. But I had to take his threat of killing me serious
... See moreViktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
Albom planned one visit, but Morrie insisted he come back. Their conversations, held over a period of several weeks, would turn into a book called Tuesdays with Morrie, with millions of copies sold worldwide. The book is powerful not only because of Morrie’s passion for life, but also Albom’s own transformation. He and Morrie discussed the same cha
... See morePaul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Slaughterhouse Five: America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves . . . Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told
... See moreJessica Bruder • Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground: A Library of America Special Publication
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maybe this is the most important lesson the school could teach them about the American workplace: how to sit calmly at your desk and surf the internet and not go insane.
Nathan Hill • The Nix: A novel
He warns me that money is not the most important thing, contrary to the popular view on campus. He tells me I need to be “fully human.” He speaks of the alienation of youth and the need for “connectedness” with the society around me.
Mitch Albom • Tuesdays With Morrie
Finally, of course, I speak of nothing except the modest topic: How shall we lead our lives? I think of a man I admire as much as anyone, the English sculptor Henry Moore, eighty-four as I write these notes, eighty when I spoke with him last. "Now that you are eighty," I asked him, "would you tell me the secret of life?" Being a confident and eloqu
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