Month: June 2010
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Habits, Leverage, and Trees
If you want to totally screw up your life, here’s my advice: cultivate some bad habits. That’s how most people do it. Very few people screw up their lives by drinking once, but a lot of people screw it up by developing a drinking problem. I’ve never heard a story of someone who went…
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Tea Autopsy AND Tynan’s Traveling Tea Set
Athletes aspire to get their own sneaker. I’m not an athlete and I don’t wear sneakers, but today I’m announcing the equivalent in my world: my own tea set! But first, a little background. I don’t remember when I first drank tea, but I do remember that at the time that I found out how…
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Patience
I’m in Tokyo now for the first time in two years, and it’s mostly familiar. Some things don’t change much: the spinach-lentil curry from Nataraj is still a taste bonanza, it’s still confoundingly difficult to wrestle a SIM card from one of the phone companies, and I’m still not equipped with a good enough sense…
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The Easy Way to Beat Jet Lag
Someone (@philiplilly) asked me how I deal with jet lag. I fired off a quick answer (“adjust to the target time ASAP”), which I only later realized isn’t what I actually do. It’s what everyone else does. So here’s what I really do: I cut my sleep into two chunks, one corresponding to a normal…