Archive - Simple Stories

August 2025

Essay 13: Why Great Leaders Like FDR and Churchill Protected Their Hobbies—Even in Wartime

Lessons from Ryan Holiday’s “Stillness Is the Key” on the power of hobbies for clarity, resilience, and renewal

Aug 31 •

Essay 12: The Quiet Mind

Why minimalism begins within

Aug 18 •

The Making of Madam C.J. Walker

How one woman rose from the cotton fields to become America’s first self-made female millionaire

Aug 16 •

Essay 11: The Superpower of Anonymity

In a world obsessed with visibility, the greatest freedom and influence may come from being unseen.

Aug 14 •

The Quiet Uprising

How Dorothea Dix fought for the forgotten and changed America’s asylums forever

Aug 9 •

Essay 10: Is Making Money the Real Turing Test for AI?

How the stock market became the proving ground for machine intelligence—and why profit may now define “thinking.”

Aug 7 •

Omertà: A Mafia Story

Inside the Sicilian code of loyalty, betrayal, and blood

Aug 4 •

The Infinite Flame

The life and death of a man who found God in infinity

Aug 2 •

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