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Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life.
The book is (almost) here. Pre-order today!
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How do the most prolific people produce so much?
War, death, madness, God, and colossal ego
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Stop ignoring Harriet Taylor. She's the reason liberalism exists.
Together John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor were the poetry and logic of liberal philosophy. It's time to tell their story properly.
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The case for opsimaths. Maybe late bloomers aren't so late
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I quit my job to write a book about late bloomers
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Let there be more biographies of failures
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How to write like Malcolm Gladwell
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The Glutton, by A.K. Blakemore
The strangest of all things sublunary.
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How Darwin became so persuasive
Gradualist prose style in The Origin of Species
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When is it acceptable to change historical facts to suit a story?
Anachronism, anathema, and historical fiction
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John Stuart Mill: the deeper springs of human character
Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed
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You are a (partial) Utilitarian, whether you realise it or not.
A short defence of a good idea.
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Darwin book club tonight 19.00 uk time
We are meeting tonight to discuss Charles Darwin at 19.00 UK time. Meeting link here: https://meet.google.com/qyh-ocry-cno I’ll be talking about…
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How to Read a Poem: the sonnet
Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays
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Why you should read John Stuart Mill's Autobiography.
Yes, you should, you should read it now. NOW.
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Britney Spears and the snake
Housekeeping On Wednesday, I am talking with Anna Gat about Cultural Christianity. The next bookclub is on 26th November, 19.00 UK time. We are reading…
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