Hi, I'm Dalton

I'm the digital creator and editor at Farnam Street.

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  1. How to handle critics
  2. You can just ignore things
  3. Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction by Max Collins
  4. One must do
  5. Gather intellectual scraps to shape ideas of your own
  6. There doesn't have to be an end goal
  7. Charles Dickens and Active Patience
  8. David McCullough on The Art of Writing, History, and Success
  9. What Actually Happened in Oppenheimer
  10. Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, A Crusading Senator, And the Birth of the American Political Scandal
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