I agree with all of them. "Work can be beautiful" "Everything is temporary" "Simplicity is the key to the good life" All easy to agree with. Difficult to grasp. Even harder to internalise, remind yourself of or act upon. Which one rings true for you?

Brain Pickings is quite the inspiration to me. I love this labor of love. And to sustain something like it for a decade is impressive to me. Here are the 10 lessons Maria Popova distilled over that time period and her 10 favourites that fueled them. #6: “Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.”

Not the best article, but great lessons for life. “The Doorway Drill”; Try to feel what’s going on with others and what makes them act the way they; “The Benjamin Franklin Effect”; Always be giving and don’t keep score.

Sacca is a sort of investor wunderkind. One of - if not - the most successful ever. He also looks in no way like an investor. Here he shares 7 lessons to the just graduated students. (1) Ctrl-Alt-Delete: Start with a clean slate. (2) Be present: It makes every experience better and richer. (3) Play offense: What's YOUR to-do list? And more!

A yearly post about the lessons he has learned that past year. He is “only” 28 but has already done a boat load of stuff. Very cool lessons. Like: "Thinking you already know is the most dangerous attitude.” Or: "Ego is the fundamental problem in almost everyone’s life” And: "They weren’t kidding about that meditation shit”. And of course “Just never buy dessert. It will disappoint.” The very last one on his list is actually the hardest for me.