The Tim Ferriss Show

By Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig

Ep 39: Maria Popova on Writing, Work Arounds, and Building BrainPickings.org

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Published October 21, 2014 2:34pm

This episode is sponsored by 99Designs and ExOfficio.Maria Popova has written for amazing outlets like The Atlantic and The New York Times, but I find her most amazing project to be BrainPickings.org.Founded in 2006 as a weekly email that went out to seven friends, BrainPickings now get more than 5 million readers per month (!). I read very few blogs regularly, but BrainPickings is one of the few. It is a treasure trove.BrainPickings is Maria's one-woman labor of love — her subjective lens on what matters in the world and why. It's also an inquiry into how to live and w...

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