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photo by Sebastian Schuster via Unsplash One of the biggest, ongoing crises in my life has been a lack of meaning. If I parent, I journal, I make art (alone, at 2 am, without showing anyone)… I’m doing ostensibly meaningful stuff. But it feels like I’m not existing at all. I spent many years trying…

Everywhere on Substack, someone is there telling you to pick a niche, or you will never attract the right people, you will never sell a single hot dog, you will be a poor starving writer who has to get a horrible corporate job forever. And, of course, there are a lot of us who feel…

photo by Phileppe Murray Pietsch via Unsplash I don’t like goals for the same reason I hate it when people say, “Do hard things!” On one hand, we are often not smart enough to choose good goals for ourselves. Goals like making $10 billion, running a giant company, or looking like a movie star —…

photo by Martin via Unsplash I recently finished “Think on These Things” by Jiddu Krishnamurti. He talks a lot about solving our life’s problems, finding our right livelihood, finding energy for everything that we need to do in life – by becoming very attuned to what we love to do. In fact, the whole purpose…

Hustle culture has been telling us for years to “Just Do It.” (Also shoe companies. And capitalism.) Just race blindly towards whatever the goal. Grow grow grow! And the feeling that we constantly need to be pushing ourselves outward and pressing for more —growing— has become a wound. It makes it impossible to be peaceful…