Exile Lifestyle

The term “partisan” can refer equally to someone who believes in a particular ideology or cause very strongly, or someone who arms themselves and hides out forests, caves, abandoned buildings, or other tactically significant locations to take pot shots at…

There’s a sinking feeling in my stomach, my thinking becomes cloudy, my mood slumps, my energy levels deplete. For some reason or no reason I’m sad, I’m forlorn, I’m unable to focus or lift my spirits. Everything seems to suck,…

Some of the satisfaction we derive from new knowledge stems from that information’s adherence to what we already knew. The world seems to be a particular way, a new piece of information seems to support that assertion, and we receive…

Successful communication is a multi-person effort. That’s true in the sense that it requires both (or all) people to be engaged, to be interested in the act of communication. But it’s also true in the sense that we, as individuals,…

I’ve taken the last few months off, in the sense that I’ve set aside most of the work that I typically do on a day-to-day basis so I can focus, instead, on recalibrating my lifestyle. In practice, that’s meant decompressing…

There was a time when I made a significant portion of my income by designing and building websites for clients. That collection of skills was once vital to my financial well-being, but today it’s more of a tiny advantage: nice…

What would you do if there was no need for you to do anything? This isn’t a simple question to answer. It’s also a question that’s increasingly relevant, not because we’ll all be able to stop working any time soon,…

Our lives are reflections of our values. Said another way: the way we live demonstrates our priorities and beliefs. That’s the optimal situation, at least. In a lot of cases, for a lot of reasons, this isn’t entirely true. It’s…