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Work Ethic as Necessary for Fulfillment
Work ethic is at the core of becoming a fulfilled person. If you’re somebody who pursues work as a way to fulfillment, failing to have good work ethic will make it impossible for you to truly become...
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How Schools Limit Our Lives With Permission
May I go to the bathroom? May I borrow a pencil? May I have next Monday off to go on a family vacation? These questions and ones like them are going to be asked countless times today and over the...
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Five of My Beliefs You Probably Don’t Like
I hold a number of beliefs that I don’t think are particularly popular and I try to write about them here pretty often. I do this both so that I can get discussions going and see where I actually...
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What’s the Difference Between a Small Business and a Startup?
It can seem like everything is a startup nowadays. Somehow both the app that shows smiley faces when you tap it that your neighbor built in his dorm room and Uber, a $54B company with thousands of...
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Recent and Upcoming Book Projects
I’m very excited to say that I’ve been contributing to and working on several book projects over the summer. The first is Freedom Without Permission: How to Live Free in a World That Isn’t, which...
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What Are We Doing to Children With Schooling?
The following originally appeared at the Students For Liberty blog. I’ll be joining them at their Philadelphia, Ohio, and Florida Gulf Coast Regional Conferences this fall. Imagine an institution that...
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The Conditions for Romantic Love
This is one of a series of posts on the issues of romantic love. Check out my first post here. The issue of romantic love is a loaded topic. In the English language, we use the word “love” to describe...
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Deschooling Isn’t the Opposite of Structure — It’s the Height of It
I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education. — Mark Twain I was fortunate enough to speak at an event in San Francisco this summer about the necessity of deschooling yourself for leading a...
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How to Build Your Self-Esteem by Deschooling Yourself
Self-esteem is at the core of living a happy life. By “self-esteem” I don’t mean the stuff of cheesy motivational posters or overpriced workshops with goofball speakers. I don’t mean books written by...
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How I Work
This is a little exercise my friends and colleagues at Praxis have been up to. Location: Some combination of West Palm Beach, FL, Pittsburgh, PA, and miscellaneous airport terminals Current gig:...
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