Ask Colin: Today & Tomorrow
What’s your advice for people on how to live their best life now? Regardless of where they are in life or what aspirations they have. How do you find enjoyment in your daily life when things get stagnant? -Michelle —…
Badass
I remember the moment, many years ago, when I realized I didn’t have to be a badass. There’s a pervasive myth within the world of entrepreneurship—and within many adjacent sub-cultures—that in order to succeed, you have to be hard, have…
Ask Colin: Repercussions
Colin, I’m more and more aware everyday that the planet is changing and that I’m contributing to that change in a negative way (i.e. the climate). After seeing the Minimalism documentary with you and Joshua and Ryan, I’ve started to…
Empathy
The word “empathy” is, in its modern incarnation, typically used when we feel bad for someone or to express a sort of sympathy. We use it to convey that we recognize and feel their pain or discomfort or sorrow. The…
Ask Colin: Missed Connections
For us, meeting people we liked and had a good time with and then losing track of them has been the hardest part of travel. How have you dealt with the loss of all the great relationships garnered in your…
Habits
What we do isn’t truly who we are, but it’s a suitable stand-in for many practical purposes. What we do is informed not just by our beliefs, biases, experiences, expectations, and other internal circuitry, it’s also informed by the structures…
Ask Colin: To Baby or Not to Baby
Hi Colin, I am a free-spirited travel-loving minimalist from Germany. I am in my mid-thirties now. For years I have been thinking a lot about having children or not. To me this is the most important, complex and consequential decision…
Self-Care
Like so many things that have gone from artisanal to industrialized, self-care, as a concept, has become a bit diluted and at times misunderstood. A similar thing happened to cheese during WWII, when—in an attempt to fill the void left…
Ask Colin: Performance Anxiety
Hi Colin, I play in a couple of bands, and perform mostly on weekends, with the occasional weekday outing. These shows can come and go, and sometimes I’ll have weekends with 3 gigs, and then whole weeks can pass without…
Productive
There are countless justifiable ways to respond to a less-than-ideal situation. We can get angry. We can get anxious. We can get sad or vengeful or solution-oriented. We can clam up or get loud. We can make a sharp, strident…