<![CDATA[Tips While Shaving]]>https://markgrannis.substack.comhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nsT9!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef3a506e-18ff-47fb-b1e0-27abdc60dc84_992x992.pngTips While Shavinghttps://markgrannis.substack.comSubstackTue, 12 May 2026 02:10:02 GMT<![CDATA[Monday, May 11, 2026]]>https://markgrannis.substack.com/p/monday-may-11-2026https://markgrannis.substack.com/p/monday-may-11-2026Mon, 11 May 2026 09:55:59 GMTThe time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.

—Henry Clay

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]]><![CDATA[Should You Go to Law School? ]]>https://markgrannis.substack.com/p/should-you-go-to-law-schoolhttps://markgrannis.substack.com/p/should-you-go-to-law-schoolMon, 11 May 2026 00:55:08 GMTDear TWS subscribers:

I realize I have not posted anything here about my new book, which has been out for a couple of weeks. It’s Should You Go to Law School? Knowing How to Know.

As the title suggests, I don’t argue either for or against going to law school. Instead, I argue that whether you should go is a question of whom you are called to become before you die. In other words, it is a question not of career but of vocation, and it requires vocational discernment (with which I try to help).

The book grew out of my experience as an interviewer back at the law firm I co-founded in 1998 and managed for many years. We had a great reputation both for our legal work and for our workplace itself, so virtually everyone we ever interviewed was highly qualified according to all the traditional indicia of academic and professional success. But many of these highly credentialed applicants obviously should not have gone to law school, because they weren’t really interested in practicing law. I felt bad for the people who either never figured that out or figured it out too late. This book is my effort to help people figure it out sooner.

Anyway, I’m finally posting this today because I just realized that Amazon is giving double Kindle rewards for Kindle purchases today, May 10, and I suspect that many of the likely readers of this book will prefer to read it on Kindle. Here’s the link for that edition of the book. If you prefer the paperback, try this one. I hope you like it, and I hope you give it to someone who needs it.

]]><![CDATA[Sunday, May 10, 2026]]>https://markgrannis.substack.com/p/sunday-may-10-2026https://markgrannis.substack.com/p/sunday-may-10-2026Sun, 10 May 2026 11:03:15 GMTTo one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

—St. Thomas Aquinas

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—Johnny Unitas

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—H.L. Mencken

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—Julio Diéguez

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—Edith Wharton

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—Arthur Goldberg

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—Samuel Butler

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—St. John Henry Newman

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]]><![CDATA[Saturday, May 2, 2026]]>https://markgrannis.substack.com/p/saturday-may-2-2026https://markgrannis.substack.com/p/saturday-may-2-2026Sat, 02 May 2026 09:01:15 GMTLeadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence by seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.

—Tom Landry

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—St. Bernard of Clairvaux

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]]><![CDATA[Thursday, April 30, 2026]]>https://markgrannis.substack.com/p/thursday-april-30-2026https://markgrannis.substack.com/p/thursday-april-30-2026Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:55:55 GMTIt only takes one slow-walking person in the grocery store to destroy the illusion that I am a nice person.

—Anonymous

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—Ella Fitzgerald

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—Howard Ruff

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]]><![CDATA[Monday, April 27, 2026]]>https://markgrannis.substack.com/p/monday-april-27-2026https://markgrannis.substack.com/p/monday-april-27-2026Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:55:46 GMTIt is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

—Andrew J. Holmes

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—Fulton Sheen

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—Woody Hayes

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]]><![CDATA[Friday, April 24, 2026]]>https://markgrannis.substack.com/p/sunday-april-26-2026https://markgrannis.substack.com/p/sunday-april-26-2026Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:55:47 GMTWe do not really need a religion that is right where we are right. What we need is a religion that is right where we are wrong.

—G.K. Chesterton

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]]><![CDATA[Thursday, April 23, 2026]]>https://markgrannis.substack.com/p/thursday-april-23-2026https://markgrannis.substack.com/p/thursday-april-23-2026Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:55:48 GMTBe humble about what you know, but confident about what you can learn.

—James Clear

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