Shelby Smith
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Writing
The Mentor You Never Had
May 30, 2025
Essays
On Ambitions: Poison or Minerals?
Oct 16, 2024
Essays
When in doubt, take the scenic route
Jul 12, 2023
Short Musings
The feeling of the first smile
Jul 12, 2023
Short Musings
How to Do Hard Things and Win Big
Jul 12, 2023
Short Musings
The Wishing Maze
Jul 12, 2023
Essays
To learn anything, learn like a baby
Jul 12, 2023
Essays
How to Become Fluent in All Languages
Apr 23, 2022
Essays
What makes a good friend? Is it ever right to leave friendships?
Mar 10, 2022
Essays
The Hard-Earned Lesson that Being Avoidant Isn’t Cool
Jan 24, 2022
Essays
What was Vipassana, The Art of Living Game?
Jan 23, 2022
Essays
Do plants have intelligence?
Dec 15, 2021
Essays
Don’t iterate. Imagine.
Nov 5, 2021
Essays
What are the Magical Words you’re Waiting for?
Oct 30, 2021
Short Musings
A Simple Solution to the “Sunday Scaries”
Oct 24, 2021
Short Musings
Lemons and limes are the same fruit in some countries
Oct 14, 2021
Short Musings
How the Rise of Cryptocurrency will Influence our Mindset: Financial Relativity
Jun 15, 2021
Essays
How Ailments Serve Us
Jun 11, 2021
Short Musings
What move will you make in The Time in Between?
May 13, 2021
Short Musings
Sonder and the People of a Pandemic
Mar 7, 2021
Short Musings
Two Perspectives, Same Circumstances
Feb 8, 2021
Short Musings
The Fallible and Productive Knowledge Worker
Jan 11, 2021
Short Musings
Family: A Burden to Have, a Burden Not to Have
Nov 29, 2020
Short Musings
Karma and Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion
Nov 20, 2020
Short Musings
Learning French with Youtube videos and LingQ
Oct 14, 2020
Essays
How to Raise an Independent Thinker
Aug 31, 2020
Essays
The Beauty of Missing Someone
Aug 26, 2020
Short Musings
Surfing the Waves of Life
Aug 16, 2020
Short Musings
Uncertainty: The Only Thing That’s Certain About the Future
Jul 27, 2020
Short Musings
11 lessons learned in 4.5 years at Vacasa
Jul 20, 2020
Essays
Your Dream Job Wants You, Too
Jul 18, 2020
Essays
Alone Time: An Extrovert’s Cheat Code to Life
Jul 9, 2020
Essays
My Method: Self-Evaluation, Habit-Tracking, and Weekly Review
Jul 9, 2020
Short Musings
Benjamin Franklin’s 12 (13) Virtues for Self-Improvement
Jul 8, 2020
Short Musings
My Guiding Principles
Jul 6, 2020
Short Musings
Always Stop to Smell the Roses (Even When you’re Late)
Apr 23, 2020
Short Musings
Chin up, Buttercup | Seeing more through Tree Gazing
Apr 9, 2020
Short Musings
Facing a Problem? Walk a Different Route
Apr 9, 2020
Short Musings
How to start feeling grateful in less than 30 seconds
Apr 4, 2020
Short Musings
Does the language we speak shape the way we think?
Mar 9, 2020
Essays
The safest way to take big risks
Feb 26, 2020
Essays
Why it Feels Weird to Achieve your Goals
Aug 26, 2019
Short Musings
Best Car Crash of my Life
Aug 26, 2019
Essays
How I Turned my Anxiety into a Tool
Aug 26, 2019
Essays
What Happens When You Quit Social Media for a Year
Aug 26, 2019
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