Fiction that Influences and Inspires
Reading nonfiction is a fantastic way to expand your mind and give you an edge in this world. It’s especially useful when we have a specific idea or concept that we’d like to learn more about. …
Reading nonfiction is a fantastic way to expand your mind and give you an edge in this world. It’s especially useful when we have a specific idea or concept that we’d like to learn more about. …
To learn is to broaden, to experience more, to snatch new aspects of life for yourself. To refuse to learn or to be relieved at not having to learn is to commit a form of suicide; in the long run, a …
This thought from Isaac Asimov sums up much of Farnam Street’s ethos in how to operate ethically in the world. From the book he co-authored with his wife How to Enjoy Writing: A Book of Aid and …
In a previously unpublished 1959 essay, Isaac Asimov explores how people find new ideas. Echoing Einstein and Seneca, Asimov believes that new ideas come from combining things together. Steve Jobs …
“The basic trouble, you see, is that people think that “right” and “wrong” are absolute; that everything that isn’t perfectly and completely right is totally and equally …
Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that Pluto was a planet. For decades we were convinced that …