Greetings everyone,
This week’s newsletter at a glance:
The Compounding Nature of Life
How to Become A Digital Nomad
The Ballad of Abbreviations
Enjoy!
All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
—Leo Tolstoy
✏️ Life as a Game of Compounding Interest
Two men who are the best of friends can get along perfectly well, and at the same time, have entirely different lives, be completely convinced that the life they are living is in fact the real life, and believe that his friend is misusing his time and energy on unimportant and fruitless endeavours.
The path of virtue seems to me to be a repression of our natural instincts. We are not wired to accept a lesser position, to acknowledge the superiority of others in relation to ourselves. But that is exactly why those traits are admired and sought out by others — we want to work with people who see us as equals, who are not afraid to acknowledge their limitations, and who understand that you don’t always get to start at the top of the totem poll.
One of the best ways to open doors for yourself in life is to humble yourself before the world. If you wish to achieve great things, you need to submit yourself to the school of knowledge. To do lowly jobs that you are seemingly overqualified for with diligence. To play the game of compound interest: all the best games in life — relationships, work, health, spirituality — are games of compound interest. But all compound interest gains start small, and are predicated on the law of slow growth and staying in the game long enough to actualize those gains.
Humilitas occidit superbiam.
Humility conquers pride.
💡 Food for Thought
Esteem is the reward of virtue.
🔗 Sunday Best
Marrying Your Friend
Another essay by James Richardson
If the point of modern romance is to marry your best friend, this will happen organically without a game or a sexy performance. Some light social filtering helps a lot. Friendship is not about the dopamine rush of romance (or exercise). It’s about oxytocin, the chemical of human bonding. Real friendship takes much longer to form than reading a titillating, dopamine-releasing romance novel.
The Ultimate Guide to Becoming A Digital Nomad
By Paul Millerd
The Ballad of Abbreviations
By GK Chesterton
Then nothing can be nattier or nicer
For those who like a light and rapid style.
Than to trifle with a work of Mr Dreiser
As it comes along in waggons by the mile.
He has taught us what a swift selective art meant
By description of his dinners and all that,
And his dwelling, which he says is an Apartment,
Because he cannot stop to say a flat.
Can a man who’s warm understand one who’s freezing?
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Thanks for coming!
AT