Hi! I’m Nick.
I wrote a book on learning skills called “Learn, Improve, Master.”
Currently, I’m working on a new book that will revolve around the question of ‘What is a life well lived?’
As I go through the research for the book, I come across ideas I want to explore and test in short writings, but the thought of turning them into formal articles feels like setting those ideas in stone, making them inflexible—I didn’t want that. I’m currently in a fluid learning process, and any new book I read or life experience I have can change my views. So, I decided instead to create this Substack, where I could freely run experiments in thinking and writing.
It reminds me of how comedians try new material in small venues to see what resonates and refine their delivery to build their working set. In writing, this would mean testing ideas and tone to find the right harmony of content and style that will eventually form the book.
I’m uploading these writings in case you’d like to join me in my thinking explorations. Some of them will be ideas to dance with, others to wrestle with. If something makes you change what you previously thought, that’s good. If it makes you solidify your contrary belief, that’s good, too. The point is to consider different perspectives.
Some of the posts may sound prescriptive or definitive; that’s because I’m mostly talking to myself, ‘thinking on paper,’ and the ideas I wrote about are the ones I was adopting based on my knowledge, experience, and life circumstances at the time. But those ideas can change at any moment. So, by the time you read anything in here, I might be thinking the opposite (all the more reason to use these writings as thinking prompts, experiments, or explorations rather than opinions set in stone, certainties, or prescriptions).
That said, welcome to my thinking lab. You’ll find some things bubbling, others on fire, a few exploding, and some sitting idly as they fail to create a reaction. Feel free to explore, grab, and examine whatever catches your attention; you can’t break anything here.
Best,
Nick