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Art] What Cities Make of Us: Art, Power & the Human Condition Across Europe | Provence: Place as Muse, Obsession as Method (06/22)
Van Gogh, Cézanne, and what happens when a landscape finds a painter who is ready to receive it
Publications
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Art] What Cities Make of Us: Art, Power & the Human Condition Across Europe | Paris 2: The Café, the Salon, and the Infrastructure of Ideas (05/22)
What the golden age of Montmartre can teach us about how creative ecosystems actually work — and what we lose when we move everything online
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Art] What Cities Make of Us: Art, Power & the Human Condition Across Europe | Paris 1: Revolution, Romanticism, and the Art of Righteous Anger (04/22)
How a city in permanent political crisis became the creative capital of the modern world — and what chaos actually unlocks in us
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Book] Leadership | Classics Circle: The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli (03/12)
A Conversation Across Centuries
Reading Time: 14 minutes
Classical Period: 1513 CE (Renaissance Italy)
Core Philosophy: Better to be feared than loved. Power is amoral. Idealism without realism is suicide.
Why I'm Reading This
After two months of virtue ethics—Marcus Aurelius teaching me to build an inner
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Art] What Cities Make of Us: Art, Power & the Human Condition Across Europe | Normandy: Light, Impressionism, and Seeing What's Actually There (03/22)
How a group of rejected painters on the French coast invented the most radical epistemological act in modern art — and why it still matters
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Art] What Cities Make of Us: Art, Power & the Human Condition Across Europe | Scotland: Melancholy, Myth, and the Art of Losing Beautifully (02/22)
What a nation that has lost almost everything can teach us about identity, resilience, and the strange power of a beautiful wound
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Book] Leadership | Classics Circle: Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu (02/12)
A Conversation Across Centuries
Reading Time: 13 minutes
Classical Period: 6th century BCE (Ancient China)
Core Philosophy: Lead by not forcing. Flow like water. The softest overcomes the hardest.
Why I'm Reading This
I opened the Tao Te Ching randomly to Chapter 78: "Nothing in the world