When you travel, you have what’s in your bag—a small portfolio of hopefully not-too-heavy infrastructural components—but beyond that you have to live off the land, in a way. You’re reliant on whatever infrastructure is available wherever you happen to be…
At times, I find, it can be beneficial to use the promise of a purchase to prod oneself forward. I tend to do this with upgrades to the tools I use: I tell myself that once I hit a certain…
As someone who finds a great deal of fulfillment in travel, I don’t enjoy being limited in that regard—in terms of legal limitations but also in terms of self-enforced, prudence-based constraints. I’ve been keeping a close eye on things, and…
There’s a difference between doing a thing and doing a thing well. “Well” measured against whatever it is you hope to achieve by performing a given activity. There have been times, for instance, in which my daily meditation habit has…
My mind rebels against boredom. When I find myself lacking external stimulation, my knee-jerk response is to seek out some means of filling that void: something to read, something to listen to, something to scribble or type or exercise or otherwise…
I sometimes delay getting started on big projects because I know that once I get going I’ll want to finish. I manage this dislike of incomplete circuits by breaking larger projects up into smaller projects that are more digestible and…
The rudiments of my home base here in Milwaukee are in place, and I’m beginning the process of formalizing and reinforcing the framework of what I’ve built up till this point. I’m substantially less-familiar with this stage of moving someplace…
There’s a method for exploration that I’ve found works pretty well for how I think, how I learn, and my relative energy and comfort levels when it comes to the unknown. I’ve developed this method over the decade-plus I’ve been…
If you want to know how you’ve changed as a person, I suggest you consider moving. Over the past two weeks, I’ve had to establish a new set of habits predicated on novel circumstances and environments, and had to introduce…
Since I started cooking a handful of years ago, making a big batch of curry and rice has become a minor tradition for me when I move somewhere new. It implies I’ll be settling into a place long enough that…