ENGLISH

Crash Early, Crash Often

By Venkatesh Rao , Jordan Peacock

Book information

Publisher
Ribbonfarm Inc
Year
2017
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
1 MB (1355468 bytes)
Series
Ribbonfarm Roughs 3
Pages
225\0
Time added
2018-05-18 18:13:26
Personal Transformation;Self-Help;Philosophy;Aesth

Description

In this fine collection of essays, the third volume in the Ribbonfarm Roughs series, Venkatesh Rao (author of Tempo, The Gervais Principle, and Be Slightly Evil) ponders midlife crises, immortality, graceful aging, learning, personal growth, community, individualism, and the Big Question of how to live a life full of meaning, dignity and significance. Drawing on the lessons of his own life and the philosophies of Douglas Adams and James Carse among others, he attempts to construct a playbook for a life full of enriching experiences, satisfying accomplishments, and deep relationships. After a dozen long, meandering essays, he entirely fails to get to anywhere even remotely useful, and crashes gracelessly to the edge of the void, where he discovers the void giving him the stink eye. Originally published on ribbonfarm.com between 2014, when Rao turned 40, and 2016, when he turned 42 (a significant threshold in his religion), having learned nothing in the interim, these essays provide a poignant and vivid illustration of the art of entering middle age with all your indignity, incomprehension, and cluelessness intact.

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