Today’s podcast is a hard one for me. As I get ready to say goodbye again, I’ve gotten to reflect on what it really means to leave and head home. There are good and bad things about leaving, and then there are good and bad things about returning. Learning to see all of this for what it is, and to process it all for what it is, is fundamental to making sense of my experience I think. I took some time today to explore this thought and the different things in play in my current situation. I hope you find it to be interesting and insightful in some way. I appreciate you listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s a special day! Happy birthday, Gabi. I love you very much. This podcast is dedicated to her and the relationship we’ve been able to build over the last two years. In this episode, I reflect on everything that we have lived together in a stream of consciousness fashion, allowing my thoughts to wander around all of the wonderful things she has shared with me. I hope you enjoy it. I appreciate you listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is in reaction to my listening of David Foster Wallace’s “This Is Water” graduation speech at Kenyon College in 2005. It’s a beautiful speech which I’d highly recommend you listen to. I took some time in this episode to talk through some of my takeaways and the beauty I found in his words. Perhaps you will, too. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a short conversation between Gabi and me. It was much longer in its original version, but we decided to cut it due to some personal considerations afterwards. We may consider posting in the future, but now did not feel like the right time for us. Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy the short chat between us. I certainly did. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Todays podcast addresses a couple of points that seemingly always come up on social media. “Don’t judge yourself” and “be your harshest critic” are frequently used phrases, yet often without the proper nuance they deserve. I try to work through this duality in today’s episode to show why both side have value and why we should strive to not solely do one or the other. I hope you enjoy it and find it to be insightful. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a reflection on how complicated history is, along with some thoughts on how we will become the history that we look back on today in the future. It’s a tremendous burden we carry, yet it’s a beautiful one in my eyes. I hope you enjoy the episode and find it to be a meaningful monologue. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is my argument for why we should do the hardest thing first each day. Whether it be physically in a workout or mentally with a hard task in our work / studies, I think there are lots of benefits to doing the hardest thing first, which could even be transformative in some circumstances. I hope you enjoy it and perhaps find enough value in it to try it out in your own life. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a return to the typical monologues of the past. It’s a topic I care a lot about and I think merits more attention than it usually gets. It’s about how we talk to each other about politics, religion, social justice, social issues, and other tense topics. I give a rundown of some tools that I use and why I think they’re beneficial. It’s certainly incomplete, but I think it does a decent job of conveying a few important points. Nevertheless, thanks for tuning in. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is the final installment of my reading of my learnings from quarter three. You can find the full article on my blog at mattbest.net/theplatform . In this episode, I cover various lessons, such as how it’s okay to be behind or down in a given moment and a question that I’ve found to be extremely valuable to ask myself. I hope you enjoyed this series of episodes. As I mentioned, this reflection activity has become something I really value and appreciate, as it centers me and helps me to be more aware in life. Thanks so much for listening: It means a lot. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is the third reading of my learnings from quarter three, which you can find on my blog at mattbest.net/theplatform . I cover various points, from the ease of missing the magnitude of the moment to the value of marginal utility. I hope you enjoy it and tune in for the final episode in a few days. Thanks so much for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.