The Dress-Suit Bribe
There’s a theme in the works of Upton Sinclair called the “dress-suit bribe” which he returns to over and over. It’s the the name of a play written by a character in Dragon’s Teeth, a throwaway line
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Only One Way to Make Progress
We want things to happen. We know what we need to do solve our problems or overcome our obstacles. We’ve got it all figured out. And then we mostly proceed to sit and do nothing. And the most
8 Simple Rules To Live By From The World’s Greatest Deep Sea Diver
Before he became arguably the greatest deep sea diver who ever lived, John Chatteron was a medic in Vietnam. What he saw there, as men died around him and as he was continually sent out into the
Smarts and Success
Here’s the problem with success. A lot of people are not successful because they are not smart.Yet you meet a lot of successful people who are not smart. By smart we do not mean IQ, we mean the more
Arguing With Reality (Bearing the Unbearable)
“Could it be that we fill out our lives, experience all that we experience, and then simply leave this world and are forgotten? I can’t bear thinking that existence is so insubstantial, a stone thrown