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Ryan Orban

Ryan Orban

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Personal Essay

Bookmarks

  1. Progress of Happiness — Can Duruk

    Can Duruk's essay on the relationship between progress and happiness — arguing that the feeling of moving forward matters more than arrival at any particular destination. A short meditation on motivation and satisfaction.

  2. How to Code a Life

    A BuzzFeed essay framing life decisions using programming metaphors — an early example of using software concepts to explain life choices to a general audience. Part of the 2012 wave of coding-as-metaphor content.

  3. The Fight — Dustin Curtis

    Dustin Curtis's short motivational essay urging readers to pursue their ambitions without waiting for the perfect moment. Written with characteristic bluntness: you have nothing to lose, and the regret of inaction is worse than failure.

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