L' egoismo è inutile. Elogio della gentilezza

‘what i regret most in my life are failures of kindness.’ continuing my tradition of starting off the new year with some words of inspiration and much needed positivity (see previous years: 2020 , 2019 , and 2018 ). as we begin a new year and try to move on from the trials and upsets of the previous Leggi tutto

Since it is graduation time again, I thought I would revisit one of my favorite commencement addresses, namely, the speech the fiction writer George Saunders delivered at Syracuse in 2013. Although it is mercifully short—a quality that should (alas!) be true of every blessed graduation speech—it als Leggi tutto

This book is the convocation speech George Saunders gave to the 2013 graduating class at Syracuse University. George Saunders is the kind of old white guy that we want to give us life advice. He doesn't have many answers, and I argue this makes his advice even more valuable. He has only a few good hi Leggi tutto

Here’s the simple 2013 Syracuse University commencement speech, which I had read before, online, and now reread in hardcover. Why? Because I wake up every day and I go to sleep these days looking at social media and newspaper articles and see that his simple message is sorely needed: "What I regret m Leggi tutto

Congratulations, by the way is a slightly expanded version of the commencement speech George Saunders gave at Syracuse University on May 11, 2013 - and it’s truly wunnerful! Saunders makes the case for a life lived with purposeful kindness and unselfishness at the forefront, and does so in his amusi Leggi tutto