Author: tenzo

Marcus Aurelius, 2000 years ago: 1. Ignore what others are doing. 2. Your Reality is made by your opinion. 3. Do less. 4. Death is knocking at your door. 5. You...

Did you know vodka in Russian means “little water”? The origins of the modern words for “water” in the western world are ancient. There ...

By Clarke Snell. 240 pages. NOTE: Whenever I read a nonfiction book, I like to summarize the ‘meat’ of it, the parts that really had value to me (I ...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died in 2008. Solzhenitsyn has became lost to popular memory, but he was once quite famous, specifically for writing about his experience...

NOTE: This is a revised version of an article that first appeared in the July 2007 issue of Planning Magazine. Bill McKibben’s book, Deep Economy: The Wealth of...

Note: This article first appeared in May 2004. “I didn’t expect it to be this way,” said Mark Harper, fiddling with the lid of his cup as he sat at a coffee sho...