One of the major challenges we face as an increasingly interconnected, globe-straddling species, is in how we organize ourselves even as our traditional distinctions dissipate. It’s easy to look around at the surging waves nationalism and assume that this isn’t…
At two months old, babies understand the fundamentals of physics. Which isn’t to say they could tell you the equations underpinning concepts like entropy or explain how mass informs gravity. But at two months they do have a tacit understanding…
There’s a difference between money made doing work that drains you and money made doing work that fills you with passion and joy. It’s difficult to quantify that difference, however. A dollar is a dollar, however you earn it. The…
I was probably five or six years old the first time I thought I was going to die. The exact context of what happened is fuzzy, as I was just a little kid, but I know I was at a…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…