A Year Without Dating
If you’ve read my work for any amount of time, you probably know that I regularly and enthusiastically engage in lifestyle experiments. Which in practice means that I adjust the way I do something for a set period, and then…
Principles, Frameworks, and Policies
I aspire to always be learning, experiencing new things, and growing as a consequence. This is one of my guiding principles. I work on projects that amplify each other, so that effort in one area tends to result in latent…
Why This Way?
One of the most important questions you can ask yourself, at any point in your life, is “Why?” A deluge of valuable realizations can dawn as you pause and assess and wonder and, perhaps, make some changes to the way…
Weeklies
It’s amazing how difficult it can be to instill regular doses of novelty into a rooted lifestyle. One of the more valuable aspects of traveling frequently or semi-frequently, I would argue, is the constant exposure to newness: unfamiliar tastes, smells,…
Stimulus & Action
I love rearranging my furniture. It still feels weird to own furniture, truth be told, but now that I have it, I’m an enthusiastic repositioner. Which probably shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. My lifestyle since 2009 has been…
Thumb Wrestling
This last year or so has been a period of change for me: a lot of new experiments, a lot of new perspectives, a lot of new ideas and false-starts and moments of valuable and intense deliberation. But it’s also…
Out of Time
There’s a trick I use when I’m undertaking a project or process that’s particularly onerous or tedious, but which I know is worth doing. I think about a moment in time when the project is completed; I imagine what it…
Conclusions
Something I’ve learned about myself over the years is that I’m not great at goodbyes. It’s not that I find them difficult or onerous, but rather that I often fail to register them as being negative. Yes, we’re approaching the end…
Exiles
I think my favorite of all the business models I’ve come up with over the years was the one underpinning a project called Exiles. Exiles was an email publication that I sent out every two weeks, and each issue contained…
Awareness
Our instincts are informed by our knowledge and experiences. This means that they’re flawed, but it also means they’re trainable.