IF YOU WANT a juicy longread to sink your teeth into, you’ve come to the right place.
Here are three to save for a moment of peace, or devour straight away.
1. How to make money doing what you love
Is it possible to have a dream job that also makes you good money? This article focuses on people who do just that, from small business owners to Internet entrepreneurs. Might be some inspiration for you.
(Fast Company, 20 mins)
Charles remembers the moment she was able to transform her hobby into a full-time career. It happened in 2012, when Etsy invited her to become a featured seller, putting her store on the site’s homepage for five days, which drove thousands of new orders. “It was massive exposure,” Charles remembers. “It kicked off my career and put my store on the map.” Overnight, she was able to stop doing freelance graphic design work and focus entirely on creating products and selling them online.
12 tools from the wonderful Zen Habits blog. Om.
(Zen Habits, 8 mins)
…a mindful life is worth the effort. It’s a life where we awaken from the dream state we’re most often submerged in — the state of having your mind anywhere but the present moment, locked in thoughts about what you’re going to do later, about something someone else said, about something you’re stressing about or angry about. The state of mind where we’re lost in our smartphones and social media.
Yeats’ poem The Second Coming has inspired many, from the title of author Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart to Joan Didion’s essay collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Here’s a look at the history of the poem.
(Paris Review, 16 mins)
Yeats began writing the poem in January 1919, in the wake of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and political turmoil in his native Ireland. But the first stanza captures more than just political unrest and violence. Its anxiety concerns the social ills of modernity: the rupture of traditional family and societal structures; the loss of collective religious faith, and with it, the collective sense of purpose; the feeling that the old rules no longer apply and there’s nothing to replace them.
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