👋 Welcome to the 159th issue of Open Loops, a weekly letter on clarity, growth, and building a life that feels like yours.

My name is Reza, and each week I share what I'm reading, building, and working through to help you turn confusion into conviction in life and work.

After winning the Nobel Prize, Albert Camus wrote to his childhood teacher to say how much his help had mattered. Pick someone whose encouragement you still remember and tell them what it helped you do. Albert Camus’s Letter of Gratitude

Before offering advice, ask, “What matters most to you here?” and help them choose on those terms. bridging the gap

5-minute walks every half hour reduced post-meal blood sugar spikes by 58% compared with sitting all day. Try giving your next work break a walking route. Rx for Prolonged Sitting

Try giving your interests different levels of commitment: one craft to master, a few subjects to study, and other skills to learn as you need them. That gives you a way to choose what deserves daily practice and what can stay occasional. How to Manage Multiple Interests

• Make time for dinner. Sit down to eat and put your phone away, even when you’re eating alone.

• Encourage people’s enthusiasm. When someone lights up about a hobby, ask them more.

• Use the good things. Light the candle or wear the coat you’ve been saving for a special occasion.

My Unreasonable Rules for Life

The story a customer repeats matters more than the message a company sends. Trust grows from how a business behaves, how its people show up, and whether customers feel understood.

Whose advice have you actually put to use, and what happened?

Outside the newsletter, there are two ways to work together: Clarity Coaching for life and career decisions, and GTM advisory for startups that need a sharper story, more focused strategy, and a launch with more shape.

👋 Welcome to the 158th issue of Open Loops, a weekly letter on clarity, growth, and building a life that feels like yours.

My name is Reza, and each week I share what I'm reading, building, and working through to help you turn confusion into conviction in life and work.

Welcome to the 174 of you who’ve hopped on since last week; I appreciate your attention! 🙏

After last week’s letter, a reader wrote that Open Loops feels like walking into a favourite boutique: there’s always something thoughtful to take home, for yourself or someone you love. That made my day. I want this to be a small collection that stays with you, not another thing competing for your attention.

Let’s dive in!

Seneca's line about taking yourself wherever you go makes fresh starts a little more revealing. A new job, city, or holiday can change the setting, while the patterns waiting for you there still deserve your attention. Austin Kleon

In the Japanese tea ceremony, ichigo ichie treats every gathering as something that will not happen again, even with the same people in the same room. It changes a coffee run or familiar dinner when you remember that this particular version of it only happens once. Ness Labs

Shutter Island, Memento, and Eternal Sunshine only make sense after their scenes are rearranged. A career can feel just as scrambled in the middle, when the detours haven’t had time to reveal their place. The Career Archetypes

C.S. Lewis thought books and music are only “the scent of a flower we have not found.” The things that move you can be a clue to what you’re actually longing for. The Marginalian

Nearly 2,000 students assumed Californians must be happier than Midwesterners because of the weather. Their own reported life satisfaction was the same, which is a useful check on whatever shiny variable has taken over your comparison. Sahil Bloom

Marshall Rosenberg's four-part model gives a hard conversation a better place to initiate from: what happened, what you feel, what you need, and the action you're asking for.

The model brings concrete language to a moment when agreement is far away.

Who makes you feel more like yourself after you spend time with them?

Outside the newsletter, there are two ways to work together: Clarity Coaching for life and career decisions, and GTM advisory for startups that need a sharper story, more focused strategy, and a launch with more shape.

👋 Welcome to the 157th issue of Open Loops, a weekly letter on clarity, growth, and building a life that feels like yours.

My name is Reza, and each week I share what I'm reading, building, and working through to help you turn confusion into conviction in life and work.

A woman built a stable remote job, a nice apartment, and a life with almost no friction, then couldn’t understand why she felt empty. Sometimes the life designed to keep you safe also keeps you from wanting anything strongly enough to feel alive. Ask Polly

Alan Watts describes life as a game of hide-and-seek: we forget what we are, then go looking for it in roles, goals, and other people’s approval. Growth can be less about constructing a better self and more about recognizing who has been there all along. Alan Watts Being in the Way

A Zoom workshop shut off after 40 minutes because the host’s credit card had expired. When 90% of the audience rejoined, he learned something no survey could tell him: they had actually wanted to stay. Jason Feifer

Most artists start by copying the people they admire. Oliver Sacks believed imitation is how we learn the craft; originality comes later, when those influences combine into something of our own. The Marginalian

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself as I am, then I change.

This week’s book is The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran. It reads less like a book of answers and more like a set of reminders about the parts of life we keep trying to simplify.

Again and again, Gibran holds two truths together: joy and sorrow, love and freedom, reason and passion.

The tension is where the book comes alive.

If the next year looked exactly like the last month, what would bother you most?

Outside the newsletter, there are two ways to work together: Clarity Coaching for life and career decisions, and GTM advisory for startups that need a sharper story, clearer strategy, and a launch with more shape.

👋 Welcome to the 156th issue of Open Loops, a weekly letter on clarity, growth, and building a life that feels like yours.

My name is Reza, and each week I share what I'm reading, building, and working through to help you turn confusion into conviction in life and work.

Rick Rubin cannot read music or work a soundboard. In the studio, he lies barefoot on the floor, eyes closed, and listens. His job is to remove the things that are not the song. The Architecture of Meaning

After a chapter, close the book and stare at the wall. Write the core idea from memory, connect it to something you know, find another place it applies, then decide when you will return to it. Four small checks turn content into knowledge. Lifelong Learning Club

The Midnight Library imagines a shelf for every alternate version of a life. When you are stuck, calculating the perfect choice just keeps you in the library. Pick one small experiment and see what the next chapter gives you. next play

At a party, the person who knows the fewest people is usually pretending to be absorbed by their phone or the drinks table. Make the introduction, then add one useful detail. It costs almost nothing and turns a room into a kinder place. Notes from Nicolas

When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

For in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.

This week's book is Storyworthy, by Matthew Dicks. It is the antidote to the idea that your life needs to be more dramatic before it is worth telling.

The material is already there. You just need to find the small moment when your understanding changed.

What part of your life has become a role you perform, rather than a place you live from?

Outside the newsletter, there are two ways to work together: Clarity Coaching for life and career decisions, and GTM advisory for startups that need a sharper story, clearer strategy, and a launch with more shape.

👋 Welcome to the 155th issue of Open Loops, a weekly letter on clarity, growth, and building a life that feels like yours.

My name is Reza, and each week I share what I'm reading, building, and working through to help you turn confusion into conviction in life and work.

We live in an incredible age of identity construction.

LinkedIn asks us to turn our career into a beautiful narrative. Instagram asks us to turn our life into an aesthetic. Dating apps ask us to compress our personality into freaking prompts.

Even self-improvement can become an identity. You can become the person who meditates, the person who wakes up at 5 a.m. The person who runs marathons, the person who reads 50 books a year.

None of this is bad. I love ambition. I love working on myself.

But I think there is a subtle trap here.

You can become so good at constructing the person you want to be that you stop asking whether that person is actually you.

David Attenborough's life's work now fits inside a search box: around 5,000 episodes across 90 series, from Zoo Quest in 1954 to Secret Garden in 2026. A legacy this large was built one curious question at a time. Attenborough at 100

Austin Kleon's post-launch rhythm included a diary on tour, Friday trips to answer mail from his PO box, and one handmade mixtape every month. The work that keeps a creative life alive is often smaller than the work everyone sees. Austin Kleon

When a friend's name lighting up your phone starts producing anxiety instead of warmth, the problem may be everything you've agreed to without ever saying what you need... Boundaries aren't only how relationships end; they're often what lets them keep going. Ask Polly

Being reminded of these 4 lines from Rumi in an old journal entry (2022) became a useful way to think about the identities we keep adding…

In the first episode of the Open Loops podcast, I explore why movement creates clarity, how labels can start choosing for us, and what we notice when we loosen our grip on the story.

Where in your life are you asking to be understood before you've made the same effort to understand?

Outside the newsletter, there are two ways to work together: Clarity Coaching for life and career decisions, and GTM advisory for startups that need a sharper story, clearer strategy, and a launch with more shape.

👋 Welcome to the 154th issue of Open Loops, a weekly letter on clarity, growth, and building a life that feels like yours.

My name is Reza, and each week I share what I'm reading, building, and working through to help you turn confusion into conviction in life and work.

You can’t compete with someone who’s having fun.
They’ll put in more time without calling it sacrifice.

You can work hard without loving it… You can get good at it. You can do it well. You can even be proud of it. But you still watch the clock. And when the day is over, the best part is that it’s finally over.

Then there’s the work you love… It can still frustrate you. You still make things you don’t like. Some days, nothing comes together. But you don’t spend the whole time wishing you were somewhere else.

You want to see what happens next. So you give it another hour. Then another week. Then another year.

You get good because you stayed with it. You get great because you kept coming back.

Over time, you shape the work. And the work shapes you.

Once you know what people respond to, it’s tempting to keep giving them more of it. But the next thing they love might be the piece that feels a little off-brand when you hit publish. Sublime

You can’t always explain the work that will matter to you while you’re still doing it. Some choices look great from the outside long before they feel good from the inside. Molly Mielke

That opinion you posted years ago doesn’t have to keep running the show. Life gives you new information, and you’re allowed to let it change you. Dailyness

Twenty minutes with an article outside his field gave Alex McCann four writing ideas, a product feature, and three new conversations. The right kind of detour is part of the work. Still Wandering

You don’t have to turn every early thought into content. Spend enough time doing the work that, when you finally share it, you can save someone else a few steps. Alex Hormozi

Outside the newsletter, there are two ways to work together: Clarity Coaching for life and career decisions, and GTM advisory for startups that need a sharper story, clearer strategy, and a launch with more shape.

👋 Welcome to the 153rd issue of Open Loops, a weekly letter on clarity, growth, and building a life that feels like yours.

My name is Reza, and each week I share what I'm reading, building, and working through to help you turn confusion into conviction in life and work.

We spend one-third of our lives working.

Nearly 90,000 hours.

To do work that matters, it’s important to ask:

• How much are you learning?

• What are you doing that only you can do best?

• How much of your work is in alignment with your personal values?

• Would people miss what you do if you stopped doing it tomorrow?

• What are you trying to change? What does change mean to you?

• Do you wake up everyday excited to keep adding to what you built yesterday?

You might not know the answer to all of them, but it’s important to keep questioning…

They’lll bring you more clarity. And get you gradually closer to working on the right things.

This week's book is The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, by Joseph Murphy.

It's an old one, heavy on prayer and affirmations, and it repeats itself. I read it for a single idea rather than the packaging: the mind you talk to all day is building the life you'll live in.

A few that stuck with me:

• The sentence you repeat about yourself all week is the one you're training yourself to believe. Worth hearing what you've been repeating.

• Your mind doesn't catch the joke in "I'm such an idiot." It just files it.

• The charm in your pocket has no power. Believing in it changes how you show up, and that's the part doing the work.

• Someone's remark takes five seconds. The replay you run for

• the next hour is the part that costs you.

Check out my full bookshelf note on The Power of Your Subconscious Mind.

This newsletter is where I think out loud each week. The rest of my work is with people at real inflection points: Clarity Coaching for life and career decisions, and GTM advisory for startups that need a sharper story and a launch with more shape.

Foundation 33 is my curated list of 33 books for clarity, identity, and building a life that feels like yours. A good place to start if you want a more intentional reading path.

👋 Welcome to the 152nd issue of Open Loops, a weekly letter on clarity, growth, and building a life that feels like yours.

My name is Reza, and each week I share what I'm reading, building, and working through to help you turn confusion into conviction in life and work.

You'll always do better work on the project you can't stop thinking about than the one you have to force yourself back to.

When you're genuinely excited, you wake up already in it. You find the time without bargaining for it. You do the parts nobody's watching.

When you're not, every step costs you something. And people can feel that in the process. And in the result.

So if you have to talk yourself into it every morning, you already have your answer.

And if you can't wait to get to it, you have the one thing that's almost impossible to fake.

Prayer and worry can't really occupy the same space, and noticing which one I'm actually doing has been useful.

This week's book is How To Love, by Thich Nhat Hanh.

Despite the title, it’s less so about relationships, and more about attention. It's small, almost pocket-sized, and it reads more like a set of reminders.

A few that stuck with me:

• You can care about someone deeply and still not understand them. Understanding takes asking what they're actually going through.

• Most of us go around like a pot looking for its lid, sure the missing piece is out there. But the empty feeling came with YOU, and it leaves with you too.

• When someone treats you badly, it's usually their own pain, not a plan to hurt you. Worth checking before you fire back.

• The right people make you more yourself. If you shrink around someone, that's worth noticing.

Check out my full bookshelf note on How To Love.

This newsletter is where I think out loud each week. The rest of my work is with people at real inflection points: Clarity Coaching for life and career decisions, and GTM advisory for startups that need a sharper story and a launch with more shape.

Foundation 33 is my curated list of 33 books for clarity, identity, and building a life that feels like yours. A good place to start if you want a more intentional reading path.

👋 Welcome to the 151st issue of Open Loops, a weekly letter on clarity, growth, and building a life that feels like yours.

My name is Reza, and each week I share what I'm reading, building, and working through to help you turn confusion into conviction in life and work.

A thought that's been sitting with me all week: the day you plant the seeds is never the day you harvest.

Some part of me still expects them on the same day. Do the work, see the result. Send the thing, hear back. Change the habit, feel different by Friday.

But almost nothing works on that timeline. You put something in the ground, and then comes a stretch where nothing above the surface moves, and it's easy to assume nothing below it is either.

Most of what I'm proud of grew out of seasons that felt exactly like that. Unremarkable. No proof yet. The harvest came later, and only because I kept watering a patch of dirt that gave me nothing back for a while.

This week's book is Leading, by Alex Ferguson. I didn't expect a football memoir to read like a sharp book on leadership. I think this gap is exactly what makes it land.

A few ideas from the book:

• Discipline is the boring floor that every impressive thing stands on. The talent people admire only compounds because something unglamorous underneath it showed up every single day.

• A manager makes sure the work gets done. A leader acts like the whole outcome is theirs to answer for, even the parts they never touched, and people can feel which one you are fast.

• Wins let everyone keep their story intact, so they teach you almost nothing. It's the losses that hand you honest footage.

Check out my full bookshelf note on Leading.

This newsletter is where I think out loud each week. The rest of my work is with people at real inflection points: Clarity Coaching for life and career decisions, and GTM advisory for startups that need a sharper story and a launch with more shape.

Foundation 33 is my curated list of 33 books for clarity, identity, and building a life that feels like yours. A good place to start if you want a more intentional reading path.

👋 Welcome to the 150th issue of Open Loops, a weekly letter on clarity, growth, and building a life that feels like yours.

My name is Reza, and each week I share what I'm reading, building, and working through to help you turn confusion into conviction in life and work.

Life is short, but you act like it's infinite.

You answer emails the moment they land. You sit through meetings that could've been a note. You handle tasks for others before your own.

You'll get to the workout later. You'll write tomorrow. You'll take that trip when things calm down.

But things rarely calm down on their own. Time keeps moving, even when you're not.

So pick the one thing that matters to you. Do it first, before the day fills up with everyone else's.

This week's book is The Hard Thing About Hard Things, by Ben Horowitz. Most books on building tell you how to set the goal, hire the people, draw the org chart. This one is about everything that happens after, when the goal gets missed, the great hires turn entitled, and the chart you drew stops matching how people actually talk.

A few ideas from the book:

• There's no formula for the hard part. Books and frameworks handle the easy ninety percent; the gut-wrenching call that only you can make is exactly the part no playbook will hand you.

• The struggle isn't a sign you took a wrong turn. It's the actual texture of building anything real, so the sooner you stop waiting for it to pass, the sooner you can work inside it.

• Great gets mistaken for talent. Most of the time it's just whoever refused to quit on the day quitting would have been completely reasonable.

• In a crisis, your attention decides more than the plan does. Fixate on every way it could fall apart and you drift toward the fall, so hold your focus on where you're actually trying to end up.

Check out my full bookshelf note on The Hard Thing About Hard Things.

This newsletter is where I think out loud each week. The rest of my work is with people at real inflection points: Clarity Coaching for life and career decisions, and GTM advisory for startups that need a sharper story and a launch with more shape.

Foundation 33 is my curated list of 33 books for clarity, identity, and building a life that feels like yours. A good place to start if you want a more intentional reading path.

👋 Welcome to the 149th issue of Open Loops, a weekly letter on clarity, growth, and building a life that feels like yours.

My name is Reza, and each week I share what I'm reading, building, and working through to help you turn confusion into conviction in life and work.

You don't lack ambition. You lack alignment.

You feel it every day… The work that pays but drains. The meetings that look important but feel empty. The days packed with tasks no one remembers.

Careers break when they stop reflecting who you are. You keep pushing through the emptiness. Optimizing for things that don't matter to you.

But the solution isn't another pivot… It's getting honest about what gives you energy. Some come alive when they build. Some when they teach. Some when they connect ideas.

Listen closely to figure out yours.

Alignment isn't a leap. It's a shift from performing a role to expressing who you already are.

That's where your best work lives.

This week I recorded a podcast I hadn't over-prepared for, and it turned into the most natural conversation I've had in months. Then a friend sent a short, kind note that landed harder than anything I'd been working on.

Both of these were unplanned!

I keep seeing the pattern: the moments that matter are the ones I couldn't engineer. The more I try to manufacture them, the more they slip.

The work is to show up prepared enough, then get out of the way and let the unforced thing happen.

This week's book is Anything You Want, by Derek Sivers. Forty short lessons from building and selling CD Baby, most of them about staying honest with yourself.

A few ideas from the book:

• If a yes isn't immediate and full-body, treat it as a no. Most of your calendar is half-yeses you were too polite to decline.

• A business is just a small world you get to set the rules for. If the rules feel wrong, you wrote them, and you can rewrite them.

• Starting with no money isn't the handicap. It forces you to find out if anyone actually wants the thing before you can hide behind a budget.

Check out my full bookshelf note on Anything You Want.

This newsletter is where I think out loud each week. The rest of my work is with people at real inflection points: Clarity Coaching for life and career decisions, and GTM advisory for startups that need a sharper story and a launch with more shape.

Foundation 33 is my curated list of 33 books for clarity, identity, and building a life that feels like yours. A good place to start if you want a more intentional reading path.

👋 Welcome to the 148th issue of Open Loops, a weekly letter on clarity, growth, and building a life that feels like yours.

My name is Reza, and each week I share what I'm reading, building, and working through to help you turn confusion into conviction in life and work.

What's a small experiment you've been putting off because you wanted it to be a confident plan first?

👋 Welcome to the 147th issue of Open Loops, a weekly letter on clarity, growth, and building a life that feels like yours.

My name is Reza, and each week I share what I'm reading, building, and working through to help you turn confusion into conviction in life and work .

This newsletter is where I think out loud each week. The rest of my work is with ambitious people and founders at inflection points:

• Clarity Coaching for life and career decisions.

• GTM advisory for startups that need a sharper story, cleaner strategy, and a launch with more shape.

Foundation 33 is my curated list of 33 books for clarity, identity, and building a life that feels like yours. A good place to start if you want a more intentional reading path toward your own clarity.

👋 Welcome to the 146th issue of Open Loops, a weekly letter on clarity, growth, and building a life that feels like yours.

My name is Reza, and each week I share what I'm reading, building, and working through to help you turn confusion into conviction in life and work .

You're not carrying the work. You're carrying the fear of the work. The work is the actual decisions, the actual conversations, the actual judgment calls.

The fear of the work is the part you've been calling responsibility. The shoulders rising. The jaw setting. The walking-into-rooms-already-defended. None of that is what the work asked for.

The people who've done this a while have learned to separate the two. They make the same decisions you'd make. They have the same stakes you have. They've just stopped carrying the second load. The lightness isn't a gift or a personality. It's what's left once you put down the weight that was never the work.

This newsletter is where I think out loud each week. The rest of my work is with ambitious people and founders at inflection points:

• Clarity Coaching for life and career decisions.

• GTM advisory for startups that need a sharper story, cleaner strategy, and a launch with more shape.

Foundation 33 is my curated list of 33 books for clarity, identity, and building a life that feels like yours. A good place to start if you want a more intentional reading path toward your own clarity.

👋 Welcome to the 145th issue of Open Loops, a weekly letter on clarity, growth, and building a life that feels like yours.

My name is Reza, and each week I share what I'm reading, building, and working through to help you turn confusion into conviction in life and work .

There is no one at the top who knows.

The CEO is guessing. The expert is guessing. The mentor is guessing. The friend you trust most is guessing. The author of the book you've been waiting to finish is guessing. Every person in the chain you've been waiting for permission from is improvising in exactly the same way you'd be, if you stopped waiting for permission to do it. The only difference between them and you is that they stopped waiting for someone above them to make the call. They learned to make it themselves, knowing they might be wrong, knowing they'd have to make another one tomorrow.

The chain you've been waiting on isn't a chain. There was never a top. It was always just you, at every step, with whatever information you have, choosing whether or not to move.

This newsletter is where I think out loud each week. The rest of my work is with ambitious people and founders at inflection points:

• Clarity Coaching for life and career decisions.

• GTM advisory for startups that need a sharper story, cleaner strategy, and a launch with more shape.

Foundation 33 is my curated list of 33 books for clarity, identity, and building a life that feels like yours. A good place to start if you want a more intentional reading path toward your own clarity.

👋 Welcome to the 144th issue of Open Loops, a weekly letter on clarity, growth, and building a life that feels like yours.

My name is Reza, and each week I share what I'm reading, building, and working through to help you turn confusion into conviction in life and work .

Some longings disappear once the mood passes. Others get quieter and stay.

I don't think every pull deserves to become a plan. Some of it is borrowed ambition. Some of it is avoidance. Some of it is just the nervous system asking for novelty.

But the thing that keeps returning after the performance drops, after the explanation stops working, after the practical version of you has made its case, usually carries information.

It may not be an instruction yet. It may simply be the first honest sign that a more expansive reality is trying to make contact.

It’s not about becoming indifferent to people. It is about noticing how much of a life can get organized around managing what other people might think.

This newsletter is where I think out loud each week. The rest of my work is with ambitious people and founders at inflection points:

• Clarity Coaching for life and career decisions.

• GTM advisory for startups that need a sharper story, cleaner strategy, and a launch with more shape.

Foundation 33 is my curated list of 33 books for clarity, identity, and building a life that feels like yours. A good place to start if you want a more intentional reading path toward your own clarity.

👋 Welcome to the 143rd issue of Open Loops, a weekly* letter on clarity, growth, and building a life that feels like yours.

My name is Reza, and every week I sift through 100+ books, articles, podcasts, and way too many tweets to bring you the best in this newsletter.

This newsletter is where I think out loud each week. The rest of my work is with ambitious people and founders at inflection points: Clarity Coaching for life and career decisions, and GTM advisory for startups that need a sharper story, cleaner strategy, and a launch with more shape. If either feels relevant, we should connect!

Foundation 33 is my curated list of 33 books for clarity, identity, and building a life that feels like yours. Start there if you want a more intentional reading path.

👋 Welcome to the 142nd issue of Open Loops, a weekly newsletter on clarity, growth, and building a life that feels like yours.

Every week I sift through 100+ books, articles, podcasts, and (way too many) tweets to bring you the best in this newsletter.

Hey hey! 👋 It's been five weeks since the last issue. It's good to be writing again.

Two things pulled my attention away and led to the pause.

Firstly, back in Iran, my people have been fighting for a better life. When it's your home, you don't just follow along from a distance. You check your phone before you're fully awake. You call family and friends. You read about streets you grew up on in the news. I woke up anxious a lot of mornings and carried that weight through the day. Watching and being unable to do much is its own particular kind of hard.

Around the same time, I'd also been on the move. Since November, I've been working remotely, moving between cities on a kind of pilgrimage. Asking whether the life I'd been building in Toronto was actually the one I wanted.

Bali was one of the places I knew I had to experience along the way. This is where I'm writing from right now.

I had a hunch this island would offer something specific: what it actually means to simply be. To exist before you produce. To go back to the roots of being alive.

The hunch was right. The stillness here clears the noise until what actually matters rises back to the surface.

What kept coming back for me was this: the cycle of learning, sitting with it until it becomes yours, then sharing it in a way that helps others realize their most aligned self… that’s what I was born to do.

This newsletter is one of the ways I live it out. And it's never going to go away.

Iran's still on my mind every moment of everyday. Sharing my truth and writing this newsletter is too.

With that, let's jump into this week's musings.

👋 Welcome to the 141st issue of Open Loops, a weekly newsletter on clarity, growth, and building a life that feels like yours.

My name is Reza and each week, I sift through 100+ books, articles, podcasts, and (way too many) tweets to bring you the best in this newsletter.

Only the truth which was acquired by your own thinking, through the efforts of your intellect, becomes a member of your own body, and only this truth really belongs to us.

👋 Welcome to the 140th issue of Open Loops, a weekly newsletter on clarity, growth, and building a life that feels like yours.

My name is Reza and each week, I sift through 100+ books, articles, podcasts, and (way too many) tweets to bring you the best in this newsletter.

The year you don't examine is the year you're destined to repeat.

The unintelligent jump to conclusions. The wise just observe. Wisdom comes from removing the junk, lies, and obstacles to clear thinking.