So much good stuff

In this week’s letter where I share the Good Stuff I find on the internet: zooming in on the human condition (insecurity, loneliness, self-regard) and then zooming out to the really big picture (responsibility and the higher self.

“It’s all good”, he say.

Every piece I share with you today is a gem. If you can’t read all of them in one sitting, come back and click on different links throughout the week.

This is just plain FASCINATING: The Story of Caroline Calloway & Her Ghostwriter Natalie. I’d read about this Caroline a year or so ago. I guess she had marketed and sold all these huge venue workshops with big promises (like gourmet meals and spa services, I think) to large groups of people, and then the story came out that she hadn’t booked the venues and wasn’t delivering as promised. She sounded like quite the con artist. Well, now we get the story behind the woman from her old college roommate. Wow—what a story.

For anyone who is SINGLE and anyone else who struggle with being OKAY WITH YOURSELF sometimes (umm, all of us!)—this is a MUST READ! I am a big fan of Susannah Calloway, a soulful online teacher, photographer and writer (her e-letters are worth subscribing to—she’s just lovely). Susannah recently started some advice posts response to questions from her readers and the first two are so beautiful and wise and true, I just knew I had to share: On being single and a catch On loneliness and filling the void

THIS ONE ARTICLE , Amasia and the Climate Crisis 1/3: The Facts, is really the only one we need to objectively understand the climate crisis completely. I appreciate the full clarity on the actual science (What? The earth’s axial tilt and elliptical orbit is involved?)—which everyone needs to grasp in this misinformed world.

This article is the first of three Ramadan Raghavedran writes for his venture capital firm, Amasia, but nothing is this first piece in the series is limited to that audience—it’s truly for us all, laid out in four clear, succinct section titles:

“Q1: Is the planet changing for the worse?

A: Yes.

Q2: Is human activity contributing to this change?

A: Yes.

Q3: Can alterations in human behavior ameliorate this change?

A: Yes.

Q4: Can an individual’s actions actually make a difference?

A: Yes.”

And finally, speaking of an individual’s actions in the world…I agree with Umair Haque. The real key to all our troubles—climate, political, social, economic—is this: The First Great Lesson of the 21st Century.