Year: 2021

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The Road to Success is Paved with Grit

What sets those who succeed apart from others? This was the question researcher Angela Lee Duckworth set out to answer. In each situation, she asked, “Who is successful here, and why?” One characteristic stood out above all others: grit.

Freelancing Your Way to Felicity and Financial Freedom: Part 1

Freelancing is not for everyone. It’s really difficult to both build a career that you’re passionate about and to make good money doing it, but if you’re willing to put in the work and refine your strategies over time, the results can be enormously rewarding.

Contra Rep. Chip Roy, Rights Don’t Come from God

In a recent debate on Second Amendment rights in the House of Representatives, Representative Chip Roy gave an impassioned defense of Americans’ right to own weapons as a means to defend themselves against potential tyranny. Unfortunately, he made a crucial mistake.

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Join TOS and OSI in Colorado for TOS-Con 2022!

I invite you to join OSI and hundreds of other life-loving people in Colorado, June 22–25, for TOS-Con 2022: Philosophy for Freedom and Flourishing. Also, join us for more awesomeness after the conference in Ouray, CO—the inspiration for “Galt’s Gulch” in Ayn Rand’s "Atlas Shrugged."