It hasn’t been a great year for social media companies. They’re still raking in money, dominating the ad-sector, and shaping personal, economic, and political discourse but they’re also at the center of many lawsuits and scandals. The increasingly dominant narrative…
When I’m mulling over some kind of new opportunity, relationship dynamic, career change, or other deviation to my existing lifestyle structure I work through a series of questions, including: Will this increase or decrease the number of options and opportunities…
How do we become the people we need to be to live the lives we want to live, do the things we want to do, and face the challenges we want to (or must, because of forces beyond our control)…
For the past few years, I’ve been spring-coiling. That’s how I think of it, anyway: a focused process of assessing, experimenting, consolidating, retracting, refurbishing, replacing, upgrading, upskilling, scanning my personal, interpersonal, and professional horizons, and generally questioning every aspect of…
When you’re cause-oriented—there’s something you care deeply about and you’ve committed part of yourself, your life to it—it’s normal and understandable that you might wring yourself out in support of that cause on a semi-regular basis. You believe in this…
I’ve had a similar conversation with maybe a half-dozen people recently, about how “work”—in the sense of doing what one does to make a living, and especially creative work—has slowly grown in definitional scope to encompass things well beyond the…
As someone who typically travels quite a lot, it’s important to me to have comfortable, sustainable inflated and deflated modes of operation. This means having a sense of what goes where in my bag, what I wear for which travel…
I’ve historically experienced a significant shift in my lifestyle, priorities, and thinking every seven years or so. Based on that schedule, I’m likely to see another such shift around a year from now. Between these fairly radical recalibrations, I tend…
When I’m learning something new and looking to veteran practitioners of that field, study, or craft to see how they do things, I almost always find they’re less fixated on gear than newbies and middling-range practitioners. Instead, they tend to…
We grieve we when lose someone, but we also grieve when we lose a sense of place or time or self, a path we feel we’re walking (toward something important), or a reliable-seeming understanding of how the world works. A…