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Glossary
- Kenpo KarateKenpo Karate is a striking art with Japanese and Chinese roots, and the branch usually meant by the name in the United States is American Kenpo, the system Ed Parker taught and kept revising until his death in 1990. It is built for close range, favoring fast combinations of hand
- StoicismStoicism is a Hellenistic philosophy, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium around 300 BCE, whose central claim is that virtue, a well-governed character, is the only real good, and that things like health, wealth, and reputation are worth preferring but not worth staking a life on
People
- Deepak ChopraDeepak Chopra is a physician by training who became one of the most widely read writers on consciousness, meditation, and personal wellbeing. His best known book, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, frames achievement as the outcome of practiced orientations rather than force of
- Joe RoganThe Joe Rogan Experience is a long-form interview podcast hosted by comedian Joe Rogan, launched in December 2009 and currently distributed by Spotify. The show describes its own format plainly: more than two thousand episodes averaging two to three hours each, with guests drawn
- Rhonda PatrickRhonda Patrick is a biomedical scientist who runs FoundMyFitness, a podcast, newsletter, and video series that translates peer-reviewed research on nutrition, aging, and human biology for people who do not read journals for a living. Her signature is density. Long interviews with
- Walter IsaacsonWalter Isaacson writes long-form biographies of people whose work depends on holding a whole system in their head, among them Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, Jennifer Doudna, and Elon Musk. He teaches history at Tulane University. Franklin, Eins
Sources
- NeuromancerNeuromancer is William Gibson's 1984 debut novel, the book that gave cyberpunk its texture and turned cyberspace into a place a reader could actually picture: a rendered lattice of data that a person jacks into and moves through. Gibson had coined the word two years earlier in th
- No More Mr. Nice GuyRobert Glover's 2003 book describes what he calls the Nice Guy Syndrome: the strategy of trying to earn approval, safety, and love by being pleasant, accommodating, and endlessly agreeable, then quietly resenting the world when the strategy does not pay out. Its most portable con
- Please Understand Me IIDavid Keirsey's 1998 book expands the temperament framework he first published two decades earlier with Marilyn Bates. Keirsey sorts people into four temperaments, Artisan, Guardian, Idealist, and Rational, each with four role variants that map onto the familiar sixteen four-lett
- The Bullet Journal MethodThe Bullet Journal Method is Ryder Carroll's book-length treatment of the analog journaling system he publishes at bulletjournal.com. The system runs on a compact notation called rapid logging, where a dot marks a task, an open circle an event, and a dash a note, and the dot work
- The Four AgreementsThe Four Agreements is Don Miguel Ruiz's short book of practical ethics, published in 1997 and drawn from Toltec teaching. Its premise is that most of what governs a person's behavior was agreed to long before that person could evaluate it: rules absorbed in childhood from family
- Think and Grow RichNapoleon Hill published Think and Grow Rich in 1937, laying out thirteen principles he drew from years of studying industrialists, inventors, and salesmen. Its most durable idea is definiteness of purpose: a wish is not a goal until it is written down in specific terms, given a d