Brain Pickings - A Treasure Trove of Interestingness

During my university years, I worked in one of the campus libraries for two reasons: to help pay for my education; and, to provide me with an opportunity to browse the stacks while going about the mundane activity of re-shelving books.  During the late hours especially, I had free rein to explore the library holdings.  It was a gift.  I was surprised constantly by what I found.

For over a year, I have subscribed to an RSS feed from Brain Pickings.  In many ways, it brings me back to those early days - a virtual amble through the library stacks.  The web site is described as follows: 

Brain Pickings is the brain child of Maria Popova, an interestingness hunter-gatherer and curious mind at large, who also writes for Wired UK and The Atlantic, among others, and is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow. She has gotten occasional help from a handful of guest contributors.

Brain Pickings is a human-powered discovery engine for interestingness, a subjective lens on what matters in the world and why, bringing you things you didn’t know you were interested in — until you are.

Brain Pickings — which remains ad-free and supported by readers — is your cross-disciplinary LEGO treasure chest, full of pieces spanning art, design, science, technology, philosophy, history, politics, psychology, sociology, ecology, anthropology, and more; pieces that enrich your mental pool of resources and empower combinatorial ideas that are stronger, smarter, richer, deeper and more impactful. Please enjoy.

You can subscribe in a variety of ways, including: e-mail, RSS, Facebook and the like. 

Here is the link to the web site: Brain Pickings Link 

The site is one of the best of its genre.  I recommend it highly and will add it to the side bar of The Financial Passage Maker.   The current issue has a wonderful array of readings on creativity.  As you will discover, a strong element of creativity has its roots on routine, persistence and practice.  There are real parallels to the activity of investing.