Hi Friends,
Greetings from Brooklyn!
This will be the last edition of the year. I’m going to break with my usual format and share some of my favorite bits from 2021. I hope you’ll indulge me in this slightly navel-gazing exercise.
As always, thank you for reading.
Until next year,
Florian
Writing I’m proud of
The Greatest Polymath you’ve Never Heard of
Favorite Books
R.U.R. - Karel Capek
Big Magic - Elizabeth Gilbert
I Talk Like a River - Jordan Scott
The Human Argument - Agnes Denes
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives - David Eagleman
Favorite Essays
Saving the Liberal Arts - David Perell
Why Bugs Ruin Everything - Tim Urban
Friends over Followers - Salman Ansari
Why Books don’t Work - Andy Matuschak
How to Make your Writing POP - Charlie Bleecker
Oddest Finds
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Michael Sugrue’s Philosophy Lectures
Writing Tenets
Write out loud.
Follow the rabbit.
Start with a story.
Reveal what’s timeless.
Seek beauty in the mundane.
Investigate what infuriates you.
A word of gratitude for the talented bunch of fellow writers who inspired and supported me in the last twelve months:
Amit, Nate, Charlie, Matt, Amanda, Daniel, Kyle, Kevin, Erin, Scott, Bryce, Vivian, Jonathan, Stew, Tobi, Salman, Reddy, Peter, Adam, Megan, Vicky, Gayatri, Monica, Michael, Juliette, Leo, Kasey, Natalie, Dimitri, Henry, Ayomide, Ritesh, Dani, Fei-Ling and many others.
🙏
(And thank you, Nate for the idea)
Much love Florian! :)