I Love Newsletters
It’s no secret. My newsletter [https://www.cjchilvers.com/subscribe] is my favorite creative outlet. What is a secret (to the public) is that for the past few years I’ve been creating and editing newsletters at a big education company. I’ve always wanted to help others with
After You’ve Mastered the Craft
David Lee Roth on Marc Maron [http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1034-david-lee-roth]: > “Once you’ve mastered the craft of it, that'll take you about 10,000-20,000 hours, then we can begin to create a composite of things you’ve heard before. The guy with the most
Free Will in a Nutshell
Annaka Harris [https://annakaharris.com](who has a great new book on the mystery of Consciousness [https://amzn.to/2Y9X2vW]) quoting Galen Strawson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen_Strawson] on the Making Sense [https://samharris.org/podcasts/159-conscious/] podcast: > “What you do follows from what you are.’ That
Violinists are Lazy
I’ve spent the past week at my son’s violin camp in Salt Lake City, Utah. It’s an incredible opportunity for him to learn from the best violin teachers in the world. 681 students work with 184 teachers for a solid week of classes. The camp started with
Nobody ever says on their deathbed...
I see lessons about life couched in deathbed terms all the time. Just search “deathbed” and you’ll see endless lessons about what’s really important in life. It got really ramped up with the beloved 2012 book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the