It was a crazy idea from the start. My wife and I were sitting at a cafe in Bastrop, TX and we spotted an empty storefront, a building that’s part of the National Register of Historic Places. “You know what would be amazing there?” my wife said. “A bookstore.” We started construction the first week of March 2020. But somehow, we didn’t lose all our money. It didn’t blow up our marriage. It’s actually been a great experience and, even more surprising, a pretty good business...| RyanHoliday.net
A few years ago, Tim Ferriss asked if I would come over for dinner. It was clear he wanted to ask me something, although he wouldn’t say what. I really could not have guessed that he was asking permission to hire away my research assistant Hristo Vassilev to run his podcast, which Hristo has done ever since. A couple years later, Tim would poach my actual assistant, Loni, too. The reason for the dinner is that Tim is a good guy and more, Hristo had told Tim he would only accept the job if I...| RyanHoliday.net
Parenting is all about discipline. It’s about being strict and firm and unrelenting. Not with your kids, to be clear. That’s being a disciplinarian. When I say parenting is all about discipline, I’m talking about the only form that matters: self-discipline. There is a story about one of those legendary Beat parties in the early 1960s. Allen Ginsberg was hosting. Jack Kerouac was there holding court. There were drugs and ideas and romance. There was effortless cool and artistic genius on...| RyanHoliday.net