David Perrell Site
Welcome to my online home. I write, host a podcast, and run a writing school called Write of Passage. Join 70,000+ people and get a distilled email of the coolest things I learn and find each week. AS SEEN IN Most of my essays are about business, education, and what it means to be a citizen of the Internet. These essays are a record of my intellectual quest to make sense of the world. They’re the diary of my contemplative life. LATEST ESSAY Years ago, I realized that the Bible is the foundational book of Western civilization. If I was going to be an educated person, I needed to know what it said. There’s a famous saying in golf: “Drive for show, putt for dough.” From music, we learn what humanity has always known but schools have forgotten: learning begins with inspiration. Human culture was fueled by rage and rivalry, which led to violence. Managing that violence is the secret reason for all religious and political institutions. My notebook is where I develop my ideas in public. If my
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