Letters from Wisdom

I'm good at doing the work, suck at sharing it.

Mar 4 • 

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February 2025

More Instructions for Life

Act on your highest excitement. To the best of your ability. With no insistence on the outcome.

Feb 24 • 

Matt Trinetti

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January 2024

Welcome to SEEKING with Matt Trinetti

Field notes on creative work, community building, and deliberate living.

Jan 12, 2024 • 

Matt Trinetti

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How to Be Happier This Year

11 reflections for living a happier & healthier year.

Jan 1, 2024 • 

Matt Trinetti

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May 2020

Seven Life Lessons From Adventurer, Filmmaker, Author Alastair Humphreys

Beyond a sea of suited city workers and through a Starbucks window, I spotted him. Which, to be honest, was about as unsettling as seeing a…

May 19, 2020 • 

Matt Trinetti

September 2019

What “Picking Yourself” Really Looks Like

How Seth Godin Became Seth Godin

Sep 2, 2019 • 

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May 2019

Hobby vs Job vs Career vs Calling

This distinction should be common sense.

May 20, 2019

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April 2019

The Fear of Following a Thread to Nowhere

Last week I wrapped a 3-day workshop at Airbus in Madrid with 46 talented senior leaders tasked with transitioning themselves and their…

Apr 17, 2019

Fast, Bad and Rong: A Mantra for Creating the New and Impossible

I remember reading the very first Word doc manuscript of Steve Markley’s Tales of Iceland. It was riddled with red squiggly lines — a…

Apr 15, 2019

February 2019

Your Future Self Will Thank You For This

Start today. Write your tomorrow.

Feb 9, 2019 • 

Matt Trinetti

August 2018

Lessons From Da Vinci — The Ultimate Portfolio Careerist

Let’s Bring Genius Down a Level.

Aug 15, 2018

June 2018

How Simple and Frugal A Thing Is Happiness

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of…

Jun 25, 2018 • 

Matt Trinetti