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Balgair · 2021-03-18 · Original thread
Best one that I know of is Daniel Dyer's biography about Jack London:

https://www.amazon.com/Biography-Jack-London-Daniel-Dyer/dp/...

Jack's life was, per his famous saying, a burning comet. His notoriously stringent working life, as Dyer kinda argues, is what lead to his premature death.

It's a great lesson in failure, one of the few specific ones that I can remember and learned from.

A good intro to Jack and his over-passions is here: https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/jack-london-quotes/

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