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…
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…
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…
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…
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…