Month: August 2009
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Cook a Super Healthy Meal in One Pot in Twenty Minutes
(Yeah, I should have taken a picture of the meal, but I forgot about a photo until after I finished.) I have no plans to make this blog into the cooking channel, but ever since writing about the MaxDiet, I get a lot of comments about how hard it is to cook healthily and questions…
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My Three Days at Vipassana
I first heard about Vipassana from Rivers Cuomo, the lead singer for Weezer. He was explaining that despite being a rock star, he was celibate because of Vipassana. Powerful stuff, I guess. He raved about the benefits of it, although I don’t remember exactly what he said anymore. It stuck in my mind, and over…
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Six Ways to Be Benefically Weird Today
I was talking with Ramit Sethi the other day, and he said something interesting. He told me that his obsession wasn’t necessarily personal finance, but rather how to actually get people to take action and make changes. We talked about the similarities between pick up and personal finance. Telling someone that they can get better…
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Leaving Los Angeles
Wow. Los Angeles is awesome. I liked it a lot when I lived there back in 2004, but I had forgotten how great it was. I’m in San Francisco now, with no real plans to leave, but if it’s not as great as I imagine it will be, I could easily see myself heading back…