150+ Things Worth Reading & Listening To From 2020
150+ links from the boundless newsletter on work, life, carving one's own path and making sense of the modern world
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Don't Follow Your Passion, Work In The Corporate World First
People have more freedom in the corporate world than they imagine. A corporate job can be a great first step to an entrepreneurial journey.
Modern CareersOrganizations & Culture
The Magic of Non-Doing
What is non-doing? Wu-wei, or inaction in Chinese, is being in a state of not having to \"do things.\"
Leisure, Rest & Non-Doing
Why Did People Stop Caring About Developing a Meaningful Philosophy of Life in the 1970s?
Why did college students abandon trying to achieve a meaningful philosophy of life and instead replace it with the desire to become wealthy?
Wisdom, Success & Philosophy
An Ode To Travel and What It Means (Video)
Long-term travel is different than short-term vacations and it surprised me in ways I didn't expect. This is a short travel essay I wrote.
Travel
The Knowledge Worker Mind & The Birth Of Careerism
How did the worker become transformed into the modern career-driven performer? It wasn't Frederick Taylor's fault
Modern Careers
The ultimate guide to becoming a digital nomad or remote worker
What is the reality of what it takes to become a digital nomad or remote worker? Learn from Paul who has spent 3+ years wandering the globe
Travel
Book Review: The Great Work of Your Life by Stephen Cope
Stephen Cope's book on dharma, told through the lives of Thoreau, Frost, Keats, Jane Goodall and others. The work of your life is finding what matters and then building a life around it.
Books & Reading
The Terror of Being Left Outside: Revisiting C.S. Lewis's Essay "The Inner Ring"
C.S. Lewis wrote in 1944 that one of the biggest pulls in one's life was the desire to be part of an "inner ring." This essay brought alive the feeling I had in college when I first found out about elite entry-level professions such as consulting and investment banking.
Books & Reading
Maslow's Imaginary Pyramid: Who really invented the pyramid?
Maslow never used a pyramid in any of his writing and research? The idea was proposed by a random business journalist.
Wisdom, Success & Philosophy
Essential Digital Nomad Electronic, Sleep, Fitness & Travel Gear (October 2020)
My favorite electronic, sleep, fitness & travel items I use as a digital nomad living and working around the world
Travel
Book Review: Aspiration by Agnes Callard, on Meaning and the Traps of Ambition
Book review on Agnes Callard's \"Aspiration\" about the philosophical role of aspiration and becoming in a meaningful and good life
Books & Reading