Writing
Essays
Addiction and recovery, Zen practice, work, and the writing life.
- Charlie Kirk and the Death of Moral Clarity
Why Embracing Non-Violence is the Foundation of The Good Society
- Dispatches From A Struggling Writer
My novel is coming along just fine, thank you.
- The Wayless Way: Finding Freedom Beyond Ambition
My painful, beautiful journey from hedge fund manager to broke writer by way of Zen.
- Two Years and Thirteen Silent Retreats Later: A Zen Retrospective
What is this strange warm feeling in my belly? Ah! Happiness.
- Becoming Stupid: Finding Joy and Meaning in Life and Work
The secret is that it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you do it wholeheartedly.
- All Heart Attacks Are Preventable: A Conversation with Rosanne WarmerdamExcerpt
A long-form interview with the CEO of Healthblocks on prevention, wearables, and the future of heart health.
- On Addiction
There are lots of reasons people become addicts. Mine wasn't any of the usual ones.
- Spectator Transcendence: Response to Kerry Howley’s Thrown
Metaphysics, masculinity, MMA, and the American Dream, from a former high-school wrestler.