Keeping ideas connected to reality so they can serve our lives in reality.
Craig Biddle and Stephen Hicks Debate: Is Objectivism a “Closed System” or an “Open System”?
Is Objectivism just the ideas Rand discovered in her lifetime or is it open to being altered by others?
Book Review: “Discipline is Destiny” by Ryan Holiday
Holiday's message is a powerful one despite not being clear if one should be disciplined for one's own sake or someone else's.
Book Review: “The Art of Living Consciously” by Nathaniel Branden
True mindfulness is about connecting your mind to reality.
“The Student Conductor” by Robert Ford
The Student Conductor is a touching, bittersweet story of a man learning how to pursue the things he loves—and what could stop him from doing so.
Do You Need A Degree to Be an Expert?
True expertise comes from years of focused practice and learning, not just earning a degree.
“The Hunger Games” trilogy by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games trilogy highlights many important aspects of tyranny and rebellion, the most important of which is that pursuing your values requires freedom.
Liberate Your Mind by Rejecting the Arbitrary
Rejecting ideas that are not based on evidence can clarify your thinking and free yourself from all manner of needless anxiety.
The White, the Gray, and the Black
Why staying consistently moral leads to flourishing while compromising values or destroying them results in a life devoid of meaning.
“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick
Empathy, religion, war, and social hierarchies in Dick's 1968 sci-fi classic.