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Ep. 194: The Surprising Math of Doing Less

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton

In april of 20 22, first book i read was the seven story mountain by thomas merton. It's very influential because it came out during this post war do drums period where people were adrift and moving to suburbs and getting boring jobs. I know more about catholic practice now than i ever have before. And he's a good writer. Ar soll speaking about writing, i then went on to read anne lamott's bird by bird. But for whatever reason, i had never read bird by bert. But it is right up there with stephen king's on writing as one of the two most os non fiction books about writing from the last three or four

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