i have honestly never seen a short story anthology line up better than this. & yes, i have read all of them.

The New Yorker

"Master the Middle" by Alex Hormozi

― Rainer Maria Rilke

Frederick Albert Cook, who claimed he discovered the North Pole, and fellow American explorer Robert E. Peary, who is credited with actually achieving this feat in 1909.

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Musical snobs still sneer at Rachmaninov: a composer of great romantic beauty, a complex artist who interrogates memory, inviting us to see the past as something as open and undecided as the future.

Math tricks

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s rule on complaining:

C. S. Lewis, advice to a young writer

Great leaders think like farmers.

This 1967 cartoon explains money better than an MBA professor!